Manufacture year for this Hotpoint Gas range?

[weed30]

After all my searching off and on for a range this one fell into my lap. Someone bought a house on my street and is replacing the appliances so I claimed the range. It's certainly not as old/cool as I want and the storage drawer seems a little rickety, but it is FREE and in pristine shape. (previous owner rarely cooked.)  I'm also considering the dishwasher but I don't have the details on it yet, only the attached crappy photo #3.

 

Curious about the range date, I used one of the sites that tells you and the possibilities are:

(GE 2023, 2011, 1999, 1987, 1975

 

The serial number provided has multiple possible manufacture dates:

August 1999 65% likely.

August 2011 5% likely.

August 2023 5% likely.

 

So 1999 seems like the answer but the design looks newer to me so maybe it is 2011?

 

 

 

 

 

[combo52]

1999 GE hot point gas range

This is an excellent gas range. It’s the best range you have found so far. I think you’ll be very pleased with it.

These gave very few problems. The only thing we do to them on a regular basis is replace the oven bake igniter.

John L

 

[weed30]

woo hoo! Thanks for your input!

 It's literally 7 houses away so all I will probably need to do is pay the guys who deliver/install the new appliances to bring it to me. I know this range is kind of boring but it's still better looking than the current offerings and I definitely know most of the older appliances were built much better.

 

Interesting that you mentioned the bake igniter because I was researching and saved a video on how to replace it if it went bad. It seems like a part that would be in stock for many years and looked like an easy fix.

 

 

 

[luxflairguy]

Run don't walk and GET THIS!! You won't be sorry! You have a 12.000 btu burner, 2 mediums and a small burner. Peerfect combo! (Pun intended!)

 

[weed30]

I'll be getting it sometime in June!

I have the same burner sizes on my current Hotpoint so I'm definitely happy about that, plus the waist-high broiler.

 

Other than the nice cooktop performance I've never liked the black and bisque model that came with the house. Whoever thought that combination was attractive was incorrect. Then some years ago something broke and the oven would never stop heating - like it was on permanent self-clean only hotter. I had to unplug it and manually light the burners ever since. I have an electric oven in the basement for when I need to bake anything which is rare so it's not inconvenient.

 

Speaking of which: I plan to scrap my current range but I am worried that the scrapper might sell it to someone instead. With the broken oven it is DANGEROUS to use for anyone who doesn't know about the problem. (I found this out when it accidentally got turned on and almost burned my house down.) What could I remove or do to the range to make it 100% unable to be connected and used? I'm wondering if I could remove the entire top control panel and scrap that separately for example. That may sound paranoid but it really is dangerous.

 

[askolover]

Remove the igniters or just remove the gas valve under the bottom. Or disassemble everything you can. Spray paint a big red X across the top. If that doesn't get the message across they are too stupid to breathe.

 

[weed30]

The spray painted X is a great idea! I have some dayglo orange I can use.