JENNAIR RANGES AND OVENS PROBLEMS

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Information about the problems and breakdowns of JennAir ranges and ovens that were reported from 2004 to 2019.

Common problems: fire, glass shattering, short circuit, smoke.

Faulty modules: door.

Recalls

2 safety recalls announced

Maytag Corp. Recall of Jenn-Air Gas Cooktops

  • Date: 11/17/2004

The recalled cooktops have switches located too close to the gas tubing leading to the grill burner. Electrical arcing can cause the tubing to leak gas and ignite, resulting in a fire hazard to consumers.

Whirlpool Recalls Glass Cooktops with Touch Controls Due to Burn and Fire Hazards

  • Date: 8/28/2019

This recall involves cooktops with a glass cooking surface, touch controls, radiant and downdraft radiant models sold under the Whirlpool, KitchenAid and JennAir brands with the following model numbers. They were manufactured from December 2016 through July 2019. Model numbers begin with: KCES950HSS, KCES950HBL, KCES956HSS, KCES956HBL, WCE97US0HS, WCE97US0HB, WCE97US6HS, WCE97US6HB, JEC4430HS, JEC4430HB, JEC4536HS, JEC4536HB, JEC4424HB, JED4430GB, JED4536GB, JED4430GS, JED4536GS.

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Problems

6 issues reported

JennAir JJW8230DDS

  • Date: 6/1/2011

consumer reported that the upper electric oven's broiler was found having been turned on by itself when not in use. It had to be manually turned off by pressing Cancel. It turned on several more times during the day & consumer shut off power by circuit breaker panel.

JennAir JDR8895AAS

  • Date: 8/2/2011

Electric ignition on all 5 burners of gas stove was sparking continuously, even though all knobs were in the OFF position. Consumer disconnected unit from power source & after while re-connected again. Large sparks, & smoke, started coming from under knobs themselves.

JennAir JDR8895AAS

  • Date: 11/10/2011

Dual fuel oven range had control knobs breaking & broiler causing electical smell & plastic seals around door melt. During cooking igniters began clicking & sparks flew out back of range. Loud pop & sparkling occurred. Appliance was turned off at circuit breaker.

JennAir JMW8530DAW

  • Date: 12/26/2011

Consumer reports that the electric oven door fell off and the glass front shattered. Consumer has had four earlier service calls for defective hinges on the oven door.On one of those incidents the consumer was able to stop the door before the other hinge twisted off.

JennAir JDS9860BDB

  • Date: 2/9/2012

Consumer reported that range caught fire twice. First time bake element caught fire after small piece of food fell on it. Consumer had to replace bake element. Second time oven went up in flames while baking bread. Consumer was able to douse flames.

JennAir JDS9860AAP

  • Date: 3/15/2018

We were using range at 425 degrees. The outer door to oven shattered into a million tiny pieces all over kitchen floor. There was nothing preceding this event, there was no damage to door. [28 YOF] I have swept, vacuumed, mopped & continue to get shards of glass in my foot.

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