Written on: 02/02/2010
As above, the door began to get stiff and reluctant to open smoothly,christmas day it went altogether and as above the door refused to open. My food was inside aaarrrrr...!!! I unplugged at mains opened up the case to find that the big black plastic thingy.?? had snapped this is what opens the door. I was very annoyed that a very good microwave had now lost its use because of a badly designed door opener fixture. no serial number to try to buy anew one. so my microwave is dead.! shame because it never gave any problems I thought it was easy to clean and maintained a lovely shine of stainless steer through out. pity
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Guest's Comment
Written on: 16/12/2011
OMG the exact thing has just happened to mine, must be a xmas thing, i had to prize the door open, otherwise i had 4 hungry tums!!!
Alkydale's Comment
Written on: 17/09/2012
Just had exactly the same happen to mine after only 2.5 years of use, was great until then but now just landfill.