hi guys,

dont know if im in the right place, but here goes anyway !
my electric oven is blowing cold air, had a trawl round the internet and it sound like its the element, my question is, is it a easy job to do ? i am quite handy and have done quite a few big electrical jobs but never done appliances. its a aeg oven.

thanks guys

Hi It will be the element.
you can buy them on the net take the info from the rear of the cooker or instruction booklet
they are changeable by the layman, but keep account of the wiring and position of each..

I did one recently.

The oven info can sometimes be found when you open the door, on the outside of the seal.

Find the model number and have a look on somewhere like espares.

There are a number of videos on youtube which give very clear instructions, most ovens will be the same. I followed this one even though mine was a different make oven it was pretty much the same.



If you have a local appliance repair type shop they'll probably stock a generic element which will fit and are usually good with advice on how to change it too.

Good luck.
J

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I am not a pro.

Although likely it is the element it could also be the switch. Both my oven and my mothers oven have selector switches with mine 11 options one which includes fan only with no heat designed to cool food before it goes into fridge or freezer so it could be simply that it's switched to wrong option.

The thermostat can also be faulty but with both selector and thermostat normally there is a tell tail neon to show it is trying to heat.

I think my oven has at least 3 elements top, bottom, and back (with fan) in some cases the top is split into two for grilling mine as a stand alone will run more than one element together but my mothers built in type has a contactor which alternates between top and back element for cooking pizzas and the like so clearly the contactor could also fail.

So much will depend on make and model as to how many functions are available. Normally one can access the element reasonable easy so if the neon works and there is no heat I would check element first. But I would put my meter on it before I removed it just in case it was something else.

With the multi-element ovens being quite new I don't know how often the contactors which select elements fail. There are both fans to move air within the oven and fans to keep oven sides cool. One would think there would be some safety device to stop oven heating should one of the cooling fans fail. I have not stripped a modern oven but would expect to find some thermal fuses that would blow should the cooker sides get too hot.

My mother complained her cooker was blowing cold and it was just she had selected the wrong option on selector switch. However I found out the daft women from council who had been sent to show her how to use the cooker had told her to turn it off on the wall once cooking was complete. This resulted in the clock needing resetting before it would work again and also a high chance of overheating due to no power to cooling fans. This could blow any thermal fuses.