jd
The worst: product has major design flaws, and customer service is even worst
The worst. Thermador is supposedly a luxury brand, but the quality of the physical units is so bad, and the customer service is even worse. I bought a Thermador downdraft for 3k in 2024, and the letter branding on the top of the unit came off a few months later with gentle cleaning. That was a red flag as to the engineering quality and the engineering design. Why would you glue some aluminum pieces onto a unit when this is around grease and needs to be cleaned frequently? I told them, and there's some resistance in back-and-forth emails including putting up hurdles. Then they sent me a part three months later for replacement. Scheduling took another couple of months of back and forth. The Thermador repair guy came and somehow stripped the screw off my unit, making the top cap uneven and worse than it initially was. Initially, he said that I need to pay him even though Thermador said that it was free. Some back and forth he said he will have a screw sent to him and come back and will call me to schedule when it's ready. Never received the call. Nothing. I contacted them months later, and after numerous back and forth, they said that they would just replace the unit for me. Okay, that's fair. Gave them my information (numerous times, I might add) and then they said that they will send a unit to the repair provider who will reach out to me. Multiple months later, still nothing. Am still working on getting my cap fixed. Almost a year now.


