How old is my Miele?
A serial number alone may not establish the age of your Miele equipment. Look for a manufacture date on the rating label, then check original documents or contact the manufacturer if the date is missing.
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Miele age can't be read from the serial number
Miele doesn't publish a way to work out an appliance's age from its serial number. Look over the rating plate carefully, a production date is sometimes printed on it. If there's no printed date, Miele Customer Service can look it up from the model and serial number.
Look on the rating plate for a printed production or manufacture date.
Canada support: 1-800-565-6435
United States support: 1-888-996-4353
An installation invoice or service record can help establish the equipment’s history. A standards revision year, patent date or manual copyright date is not its manufacture date.
Miele appliances
How to find the age, the serial number, typical life and parts for each:
- Miele refrigerator10–15 yrs
- Miele range or oven13–15 yrs
- Miele dishwasher9–12 yrs
- Miele microwave8–10 yrs
- Miele freezer10–20 yrs
- Miele clothes washer10–13 yrs
- Miele clothes dryer10–13 yrs
Beyond major appliances Miele sells cooktops, range hoods, wine storage, built-in coffee machines, vacuum cleaners and rotary irons, plus commercial laundry, dishwashing and medical/lab washers; its microwave products in North America are mainly speed ovens and combination units.
About Miele
Miele is a German appliance maker that is still owned by its two founding families. It makes washers, dryers, dishwashers, cooking appliances, refrigeration, vacuum cleaners and coffee machines, along with commercial laundry and medical cleaning equipment.
- Owned by
- Miele & Cie. KG (owned by the Miele and Zinkann families)
- Headquarters
- Gütersloh, Germany
- Founded
- 1899
- Product lines
- W1 washers and T1 dryers
Sister brands: Steelco.
Miele history
- 1899: Carl Miele and Reinhard Zinkann founded Miele & Cie., starting with a cream separator.
- 1907: The company moved its head office and production to Gütersloh, Germany, where it is still based.
- 1929: Miele introduced what it describes as Europe's first electric dishwasher.
- 1983: Miele set up a United States subsidiary, first based in New Jersey and later moved to Princeton in 1999.
- 2017: Miele took a controlling stake in the Italian medical technology company Steelco Group.
- 2024: Miele's first U.S. factory, in Opelika, Alabama, began building 30-inch ovens and range cookers for North America.
Miele recalls
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