@woe2you @Quinn9282 @CppGuy @MarkHoltom

Miele was, emphasis on past tense, truly excellent.

Recent years they produce dysfunctional overpriced crap. It was one of the few brands I really admired up until that point. My first Meile lasted 15 years, until it got ran over by a car (long story). The replacement 8 years ago never worked despite taking it in for service help 3 times in the first year but didn't fix the problem, until 6 years later when I was ready to trash it and went to ace hardware in a final act of desperation, where they and showed the design flaw causing all the problems. So now I can use it, so long as I dismantle it and home fix it after every use, sometimes multiple times per use. It is their top of the line model. Corporate ignored every request and warranty plea, even though the problem is the same from the start and I had records showing it was a constant issue. They make junk now, save your $. My meile now has about 10 hours of use racked up for it's 8 year old life, and I've spent about 40-50 hours trying to get it to work.