Limited Edition Red 22 Kettle: News, Views & Reviews

[hawgheaven]

I've looked at them in the various stores. Nope. Don't want one. They look and feel cheap 2me. And now you can get them for $99? What does that tell you?

I work in the electronics industry, designing printed circuit boards. My designs get sent out to various vendors. The company I work for decided, for cost reasons, to move mfg of my hard work to China. Sorry to say, quality of the final product has gone to SHIT. That being said, no offense China, butt dayum. Wake up! Pay attention!

[jeffrackmo]

I picked up a LE Red on a great private deal.  85 bucks.  Right out of the box, there as chip and dent in the rim of the LID.  Now mind you this was RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX!!.  I exchanged it at HD for a new undamaged kettle.  ON assembly, I too found that the legs were very hard to fit properly.  Also noticed that the quality that we kettle fans are used too was not really there.  Great deal yes!!  RED LE for under 100 bucks YES!!  Quality of of over all product??? Not really...

Weber, you sort of missed the Mark here...  Back to Quality.  Remember Ford back in the mid 70's?  Well lets get back to Quality as JOB 1!!

[hawgheaven]

My guess is, good thing it's a Limited Edition...

[Grillagin]

My lid handle mod came out pretty well.  @greenweb inspired me and gave me some helpful advice. @varekai sent me the donor handle strap.  Last but not least, the Koa Zav handles came from my secret Santa.  Thanks to all of you guys!

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[greenweb]

My lid handle mod came out pretty well.  @greenweb inspired me and gave me some helpful advice. @varekai sent me the donor handle strap.  Last but not least, the Koa Zav handles came from my secret Santa.  Thanks to all of you guys!

Looks fantastic! Great job!

[Brain_STL]

Just picked up my new LE!


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[vader06]

Has anyone had an issue with the lid on the LE Kettle?  On mine you can easily slide the lid off the kettle by pushing the handle over without lifting it.  To make a long story short I made several calls to Weber and it has been a long process.  I had to take a video and send pictures to Weber so they could review them.
They called me two days later and told me they are sending me a new lid and they do not want the old lid back.
So I get the new lid a couple days ago and it doe the same exact thing.  I went ahead and sent more pictures and another video to Weber again.  Now I am waiting again to see what they are going to say.
I do regret buying this grill.................... 

[Firemunkee]

Someone in my area just bought a bunch on clearance somewhere and put them up NIB on Craigslist for $125. I wonder how low of. Price he got them.

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[HoosierKettle]

Has anyone had an issue with the lid on the LE Kettle?  On mine you can easily slide the lid off the kettle by pushing the handle over without lifting it.  To make a long story short I made several calls to Weber and it has been a long process.  I had to take a video and send pictures to Weber so they could review them.
They called me two days later and told me they are sending me a new lid and they do not want the old lid back.
So I get the new lid a couple days ago and it doe the same exact thing.  I went ahead and sent more pictures and another video to Weber again.  Now I am waiting again to see what they are going to say.
I do regret buying this grill....................

This is probably a dumb question but did you try the lid on another kettle to make sure it's not a problem with the LE bowl?


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[Jules V.]

Has anyone had an issue with the lid on the LE Kettle?  On mine you can easily slide the lid off the kettle by pushing the handle over without lifting it.

The bowl is probably warped and out of round.

[vader06]

Has anyone had an issue with the lid on the LE Kettle?  On mine you can easily slide the lid off the kettle by pushing the handle over without lifting it.  To make a long story short I made several calls to Weber and it has been a long process.  I had to take a video and send pictures to Weber so they could review them.
They called me two days later and told me they are sending me a new lid and they do not want the old lid back.
So I get the new lid a couple days ago and it doe the same exact thing.  I went ahead and sent more pictures and another video to Weber again.  Now I am waiting again to see what they are going to say.
I do regret buying this grill....................

This is probably a dumb question but did you try the lid on another kettle to make sure it's not a problem with the LE bowl?


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Yes I did try that....same result.  I put another lid on the LE bowl and it slid a little bit but not as bad with the LE lid.  Both the lid and bowl are uneven enough to make it imperfect.  I told the Weber CSR that in the beginning but they said it was the lid only.  I have been very nice so far but I am losing my patience with Weber.  This has taken over two weeks to settle this issue.  I am dealing.  Things will work out.   

[Grillagin]

Roti and mods.  This works for me.

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[Troy1620]

How did you take the taco off?


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[PotsieWeber]

How bad are these things?  I saw someone locally already selling both the lid & bowl locally.  They are asking $50 OBO, which I think is too much for my project.  see http://weberkettleclub.com/forums/member-sales-trades/seeking-rusted-out-kettle-2-messed-up-lids-chicago-area/.

It it's around a while, I might make them a lower offer because I wouldn't feel guilty cutting one of these made in China ones & I kind of would like a colored one but don't know if I'll luck into finding something super roached old one that I wouldn't feel guilty cutting into.

[sodaking27]

Went to HD to pickup some furnace filters. Walking into the store I see 3 of the red kettles setting out front. Marked down to 79.00 Did a good going over and saw the typical thin coating on the handles etc.  Do I really need this?? No. But for that price, I couldn't help myself.