Product review (1 stars): Looks nice...wares horribly
Purchased the full gas version of this monster 10 years ago.  I've learned to live with the excessive top burner igniter clicking errors others have reported and keep the range in super clean condition.  I've also put up with the crummy thin decals along the entire control panel slowing disappearing as I know the controls pretty well.  What I can't tolerate is the thin, cheap, and inadequately engineered parts Viking stuffs into its pretty "so called PROFESSIONAL" ranges.  Of course the right oven burner had to start popping, spitting, and failing Thanksgiving Day!!!  This oven is used in a 2 person home maybe 2x a week at most so it's not abused nor mistreated.  I've been able to order replacement igniters from Amazon (thanks folks for having these in stock at a reasonable price). But now I'm told by several Viking parts suppliers that the replacement burner units are on a "national back-order" for 3-4 weeks!!!!  No traditional Christmas dinner for this household.  I tried Viking customer service (never use those words in the same sentence with Viking corporation!!)  They dropped the call, could not connect me with the parts department, and were just plain useless.  Now I'm stuck with a worthless oven till possibly Jan 2012!  So why did the burners fail??  From what I can gather from repair and service sites, the burner tubes Viking sources are very thin metal that reacts with the moisture that is in all natural gas lines/fuel thereby sometimes fusing the igniter unit to the tube and causing a pencil thickness hole where the igniter sits.  The spitting/popping noise was extra gas pouring out of this developed large hole up onto the igniter... NICE VIKING!!! Real safe oven here!!!

I would love to know if any class action suits have been filed for these and the other products that they have dumped on the consumer marketplace to recoup the extra parts and service costs they've caused through poor quality and potentially dangerous product sold to its customers.  And I'm not the only one, check out the latest issue of Consumer Reports for the notice on Viking products catching on fire!!

This product should have lasted many many years longer for the cost of ownership.  Good luck!