If you find yourself thinking about buying an Aldi appliance (Stirling) punch yourself in the face.
Go and spend the right amount of money and buy a decent appliance and stop kidding yourself that a substandard Aldi product might be a viable economical option.
It will cost you more in the longrun plus create recurring inconvenience in a revolving door kind of way in requiring regular repair and eventually when you give up trying to resurrect the garbage - replacement.
We did a kitchen renovation and by coincidence Aldi had ovens, cooktops and exhaust fans available and stupidly we bought all 3 (with 2 ovens).
The first problem we had was when Australias gas safety people wanted to complete a random check on our installation for compliance.
The appliances were installed by a professional tradesperson who does kitchens reno's regularly.
The exhaust fan and cooktop have minimum clearance levels that are required from each other, and the tradesman followed the specs for the exhaust fan to ensure compliance.
The difficulty was that the exhaust fan installation instructions required clearance was curiously not the same distance as the cooktop intallation instruction.
Our gas plumbing audit was an instant fail as where different distances are stated, by default it needs to be the greater of the two, and unfortunately our tradie followed the instructions that set out the lesser of the two, not suspecting Aldi would be stupid enough to require different clearances given the same brand products.
To rectify this we had to replace the cooktop with a proper appliance which we should have purchased from the outset. Another few hundred dollars down the drain.
The exhaust fan is so noisy it sounds like we built our house in the middle of a speedway. It would be quieter to live under the flight path at Heathrow, or on the runway. It drives us insane!!
Now the ovens are both stuffed.
The chrome oven racks went rusty inside 12 months.
The door seals came off.
The chrome colour on the knobs came off.
The oven doors have a cavity between the two panes of glass but both accumulate condensation inside and look unclean 100% of the time.
Now the thermostat on both ovens are f#@ked.
The temperature range on these ovens is supposed to go from 50 to 250 degrees celcius.
One of the ovens when set on 50 is actually operating at 150, and when set to 250, it reaches almost 350 degrees which triggers the safety cutoff and the oven turns itself off - that one is a safety hazard.
The second oven at 50 degrees is actually at 100%.
At higher temperatures it can be highly variable so you go from trying to poison yourself with salmonela from eating undercooked chicken to the other extreme eating carcinagens with food burned beyond recognition.
Bottom line.
Don't waste your money on Aldi products made in a sweatshop with substandard components - they're a death trap.
Nice work Aldi.
These are so inaccurate that they are unusable.
I emailed Tempo to open a discussion about what we can do (get a refund under Consumer Law as they are not fit for purpose!) but Tempo have not replied.
Aldi products are rubbish.
They do not stand by their products.
Their warranty is useless.
If a business lives or dies based on the quality of the goods they sell and the backup service they provide, then Aldi should have been gone years ago.
Seriously people stop buying Aldi excrement (I wanted to use a different word but TrustPilot are too polite for that)- it's rubbish.
In the long run we should have bought quality appliances from the get go and had peaceful enjoyment of using them, instead of the constant head f*#k we experience with their dodgy products.
An update!
I emailed tempo (who control warranty issues) Jan 7th and heard nothing.
I lodged this TrustPilot review and voila.
Jan 13th tempo reply to my email telling me they will escalate my issue.
It's now Jan 17th and nothing.
Remembering we haven't had an oven that is safe to use for 10 days now.
Thanks Aldi and Tempo.
Great service :-(
