Cuisinart 7-Quart Stand Mixer?

I was hoping to hear someone's opinion

I have, or should say had this mixer.

There are many things wrong with this mixer.  First the front door that guards the attachments kept popping open - new right out of the box with the mixer in use.
 

Very annoying.

Looking past that I continued to try it out.

Look VERY closely at the video reviews.   This mixer says 7 quart, but the hook & paddle go WAY under the lip of the bowl.  If you put more than 5 quarts in this mixer, all of your food or dough goes right into the connections.  HORRIBLE & semi-false advertising.

It doesn't really "knead" bread, it spins it around.  I've had a ton of mixers & am very experienced, I know the right consistency of bread dough, it was just not wide enough to knead.  This is even on small batches because the bowl is so narrow.

I had it for about 9 months, with every day use, but not heavy use.

Now, it won't come on, and the motor is blown despite the fact that it was supposed to have a safety switch.

Kitchenaid = way better.   8 years you say????  Wow!  You'll be lucky on a pro level to get 6 months out of this thing.

I'm just going hobart, I'm tired of all these puny mixers.

But anyway, this is a HORRIBLE mixer, STAY AWAY!

Hi,  I`ve had my 1000 Watt, 7 L, Cuisinart Stand Mixer for a total of 1 day now.  I was soooo happy when I got it for Christmas.  My first recipe - Page 30 of the instruction/recipe booklet - Cinnamon Swirl buns.  I followed the recipe exactly and it instructed me to knead the dough for 8 minutes.  After about 1 and a half minutes, the machine just stopped.  I turned it off, let it rest a few minutes and started it up again.  About 4 or 5 seconds later, it just died again.  I retried 3 more times and it just died.  I wrote Cuisinart and sure hope that they`ll replace my machine. 

After this happened, I Googled this product and read that the machine just ¨stopping¨ is something that has happened before but that Cuisinart takes care of it.  I sure hope so.  Also, although the bowl is very high, it is true that you can not put too much dough into it.  I only made the required amount of dough the recipe asked for and the dough was rising all the way to the top as the attachment starts a couple of inches into the bowl instead of at the top of the bowl.  I wasn`t too impressed by that. 

I hope they don`t give me too much trouble to replace my machine.

You want one thats gonna last be willing to pay the price but only buy once. An Assistent, used to call them DLX they are built different but they last. Been using mine few times a week for sure. New makes are 600 watts mine not that much neighbors grumble about there big pwer houses not working enough, mine sure does though, they dont realize the design is more important then the watt numbers and fancy stuff they put on it. Buy yourself a Assistent and you'll be done grumbling and wont need to be replacing it.. You can find them all over the States but tougher to find here in Canada I heard Kitchenz in Saskatoon  has them in their store and I bought myself a roller now to flatten my grains, got it online at  Jalyns.ca  Good luck there.