A year or so and Maybe 20 bags of pellets in. The plusses and Minuses Minuses first 1) Temp control sucks, no other word for it. +/- 20 is as good as you are going to get. 2) Pellet Hopper Bridges and ratholes all the time no matter whose pellets 3). Regular grill is horrible, way too wide of spacing and ultra cheaply made. Been replaced shame on a 2k grill to replace a grill due to quality. 4) some temperature warping. Pluses 1) will make the best steak and / or burger you have ever eaten. 2) at brisket temp the thing will generally cruise and only needs intervention to make sure the pellets are flowing 3) sear Grill is great and will give you pretty marks 4) does a nice job on Pizza and Bread.
Its stainless, not much else out there in this price range, so I would buy it again, just wish the company was run by folks who grill, cause all of these problems should have been fixed year 1.