Oven is faulty. Repair or buy new cooker?

[TheGander]

I have a SMEG hob and oven which is now 20 years old. The oven is faulty, it takes an age to heat up, doesn’t reach required temperature so everything cooks slowly/ doesn’t brown etc. it makes awful gurgling like sounds while on. Got someone out, it was £160 and they have quoted £250 to change the heating element and thermostat. I’m just wondering if this is worth it or we should bite the bullet and get a new one, which will be about £1000 plus no doubt delivery and fitting costs. We’re thinking of moving in 2 years. Is it normal to take your cooker with you when you move? Thanks for any advice.

To save you the possible stress my mum has just endured, if auto timed cooking is something you use a lot make sure it’s a feature of the cooker. Mums just sent one back that was faulty that she assumed would have it and bought another where she was wrongly told it did auto timed cooking when in fact it just turns it off.

she’s in a right huff, she’s spoken to a couple of manufacturers who have said things like, people are WFH and don’t need or want it and another said it wasn’t safe to have such a feature.

if it’s a slot in cooker I would say it would be normal to take it with you but not a built in one. I’d be purchasing a cheap one to replace it with if I was going to be doing that but check with estate agents on what they think.

Thanks big big freezer that’s a good tip. I don’t use auto timer but I like the idea of speaking to an estate agent re taking cooker with us. Current one is freestanding.