Product review (4 stars): Works like it's supposed to
Exactly what we needed for our 10+ year old Viking range. The element caught fire spontaneously one day while baking, and fortunately I was in the kitchen to turn off the oven when it started. I wasn't overly surprised since my parents had already had to replace theirs several years ago. This one was relatively easy to install, my Dad did it since he'd done theirs already, and it's been working just fine ever since. The only quirk is that sometimes it overheats at a given setting. For example, when the oven is set to 350 and it comes to temperature, the in-over thermometer reads 375, but I'm just going to assume that it's working just a bit too well. My mother said theirs did that initially after it was installed too, so the simple work-around is to have an oven rack thermometer, and that works just fine. Oh, and this arrived in the box with no additional packaging or cushioning, it was just the element as it's shown in the picture (with the ceramic feet). Anyway, it was definitely worth the money and buying it online saved us the trouble of having to special order it from a parts store that would have charged us more. It took a few days to come in, but again, no big deal (since it wasn't the holidays anyway). Seems to work fine, hopefully it will last us another 10+ years.