Sharp R350EW

Don’t waste your money!!!

Bought the Sharp R350EW 13 months ago. Now it displays E5 and heats intermittently and at low power. Sometimes there is no heating at all. Some months earlier the light began flickering and the plate rotation became noisy and irregular!! Like mine, I’m seeing online that many of these faults are occurring just outside the 12 month warranty period!! Many years ago I inherited my mother’s Toshiba microwave, she’d used it for 10 years, and I used it for 10 years before it failed. I replaced the magnetron and it ran for another 10 years and I only got rid of it to update the look. That one was Made in Japan. Now it’s all Chinese junk!!! Not impressed!! Show details

A sparky flamey ending

Bought Jan 2020, noticed rusting/peeling on roof at around 9 months but still functioned without fault. Last week the wife called me saying microwave is making sparking/arcing noises and smells like burning plastic. Tested the next day, impressive sparks leading to flames.... Thought we'd get a few more years but alas no. Noticed that same model is now going for around $250 but have moved brands anyway. Show details

Microwave in flames after 3 years

I bought this Sharp to replace a long lasting reliable Sharp model. I bought it on 27 December 2019 at Myer and it died 7 October 2023. The flames caused my wife to scream out- Microwave is on fire! It was not cheap and when it worked it was fine. The trouble is it lasted less than four years. Show details

Nothing like our old sharp microwave

This microwave is nothing like our old sharp microwave which we had for 18 years.
It is really noisy & nothing I do except take out the whole turn table stops it.
It doesn’t have a less or more option which I used all the time with my old one. I didn’t think I would need it but the sensor takes so long to cook it overcooks & you can’t reduce the time. It also has very limited choices unlike the old model. The defrost option also takes longer and you can’t just touch your choice & start you have to put in the weight every time but it only lets... Read more you choose within 1/2 - 1kg and then I end up doing it longer because it’s still half frozen?? So you just end up putting in your own time which defeats the purpose of the sensor & defrost buttons. Sharp you really need to pick up your game!

Get E-5 error after 2 years

It seems i am just another victim of many E-5 errors. Sharp is going downhill with his legendary microwave. Show details

PAINT COMING OFF THE ROOF INSIDE AND RUSTED

I purchased approximately a year ago the Sharp microwave model R-395E(BS) serial number 005411239. The roof inside the microwave looks terrible and has sections where the paint has peeled off and is now rusty. I wrote to customer service to ask for advice and the response received was that rust is not covered under warranty. Show details

This is not the Sharp microwave you know and trust

Replaced an older Sharp microwave with the same specs. But where the old microwave gave a solid 10 years of service, and right to the very last day cooked all food through perfectly and to spec, this new model, takes minutes longer to cook the same dishes (despite the same wattage rating), and even with extra cooking time leaves multiple cold spots through a dish, not cooking evenly at all. Buttons also feel flimsy and highly unlikely to last 10 years this time around. Of additional note, we found out after our purchase that ownership of Sharp ... Read morehad changed hands to Foxconn, and they no longer manufacture the majority of their products in Japan. The new microwave presents much more as a product built to a (cheap) price point, than the quality it used to represent. When this microwave fails, we will look to a different brand.

Stopped heating after year and a half

We were very happy with the microwave when we bought it,, we mainly used it to reheat our coffee mugs and tea cups. unfortunately it stoped working after a year and a half. We bought it from the Good Guys shop. when approached the shop, they were not interested to help, only focused to sell a new one. Show details

E5 error after 16 months

This microwave worked ok for 18 months until the E5 error came up (which seems to be a common fault for this model) and now it does not heat anything and the warranty was only for 12 months. Apparently the touch panel needs to be replaced which is not worth the effort, especially if the fault may reoccur. For this reason I would not buy one of these again. Show details