Very useful to know, thanks.

On the topic of being 'no longer permitted to offer anything longer than an initial 12 month warranty', I have to say this sounds odd. I've never known UK law to restrict warranty periods and I suspect someone got the wrong end of the stick when Miele decided that they no longer needed to adhere to the longer 24 month warranty they had to when we were in the EU.

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