BEKO, LEISURE & FLAVEL GAS COOKERS - SAFETY WARNING

Just read this on the BBC, about two men dying from carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a design fault in Beko cookers/ovens/grills.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-20626482

"HSE engineer Steve Critchlow told the inquest cooker grills should not be operated with the door closed as this limits oxygen and can cause carbon monoxide to be produced."

Apparenty 6 people have been killed by this defect.

The manufacturer has attempted to contact everyone who bought one, but around 7,000 owners can't be traced.

Make sure it isn't you or anyone else you can think of that owns one.

Here's the link to theSafety Notice:
http://www.beko.co.uk/CookerSafetyNotice

 

Oh blimey Aesculus, Beko Fridge/Freezers are a problem too!

Hope you check that link Vicky in case it's your model.

 

Cheap Turkish rubbish I'm afraid - I wouldn't have a Beko in the house.

 

To a degree, it does still boil down to the old adage 'you get what you pay for'; to be fair to the Koreans, their stuff is generally miles better than the Turkish tat - LG & Samsung are pretty good nowadays, whereas the Turkish equivalents of Beko and Vestel are pretty awful (Vestel don't sell under their own brand name, but are generally the manufacturer responsible for supermarket brands, and even the likes of Bush, Wharfedale and Grundig nowadays)

When it comes to domestic appliances, you won't go far wrong with Miele, Bosch (except their cheap ones) and Neff - sure, they will set you back a bit more (our Bosch tumble dryer was £800) but they also last a hell of a lot longer while invariably using less electricity and are less likely to burn your house down.

 

I spent a large part of my life in the TV/Video/HiFi trade, and also had dealings with domestic appliances too, and its kinda stuck ever since.

I admit that I do get frustrated when I see people buying relatively cheap items, and then being frustrated when they give trouble after a very short time.

My mum's first 'automatic' washing machine was a Zanussi that cost her £350 from the Co-Op (paid off in instalments with a wee book) - a quick look here suggest that £350 from 1985 is equivalent to £931 today, so why do so many consumers expect that a washing machine made to sell for £179 today is going to be durable whilst also being better than the one we would have bought in 1985?

It saddens me to be honest - electronics and domestic appliances is one of the few industries where prices have consistently dropped, whilst features have been expected to increase - - under those conditions, something has to give and that something is quality and longevity. No wonder we are flying through raw materials nowadays - far too much is built not to last.

 

That pretty much sums it up. Don't get me wrong, as production technologies improve it is entirely feasible that cost savings can be made whilst maintaining the quality - the trouble is that it has gone way too far nowadays with many products; the resulting products are also extremely unfriendly in environmental terms, as they are almost invariably rendered beyond repair regardless of the the severity of any fault that appears.

Also, bear in mind that as you rightly state the production has been moved around the globe to save money - the trouble is that the workers in those country will be fighting for fairer and fairer terms as time goes on (exactly as happened here over the years), and slowly but surely the cost of their labour increases - the only way then to maintain the low price point is to cut corners.