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Title: Short service life - Avoid Rowenta
Review: I bought this item thinking it was a premium product. After about a year, it stopped heating. Recently, I took it apart to figure out why it conked out. I think it was an overtemperature cutout switch. The problem is, that cutout switch doesn't reset! So if you have one temperature excursion, you have a paperweight.I kind of fixed it, but it has no overtemp protection now. Pretty lame.If this typifies Rowenta design and workmanship (it was made in Germany, for gosh sakes), I'll never buy Rowenta again. Poor reliability, hard to fix, no spare parts... All this, plus twice the cost! The cheap, Chinese-made Black and Decker we have is still going strong after six years.
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