Change electric shower, which brand?

[sparkymark75]

I moved into my house in 2017. It had an Aqualisa Lumi 10.5kW electric shower fitted. After 3 years, it packed in. I bought a replacement engine for it and replaced it myself. I came back from a week away yesterday and went to have a shower and out of the blue, the shower doesn’t work. Same issue as before; water trickling out and even on full cold setting, it starts to sound like a kettle boiling.

I have quite soft water so don’t think it’s an issue with limescale. So I can either replace the engine again or Aqualisa offered my a fitted upgrade for their eMotion model.

Given the issues I’ve had with their quality (2 failures in 6 years), I’m reluctant to get another Aqualisa shower so what are the better shower brands to go for when it comes to cold water mains fed electric showers?

I’d also like to try and get a shower with similar pipe and cable placement for obvious reasons.

 

[Johntheo5]

If the shower has suddenly, in a one week period, reduced to a trickle, then hard to imagine problem with limescale,. a 10.5kw shower requires a flowrate of nearly 7LPM (6.84) to run at 40C from a (my) mains temp of 18C.
Have you done the obvious like cleaning the filter and running it with the hose and shower head removed??.
If two shower engines have failed due to low flow then difficult to rule out limescale?.

 

[gas112]

Never found the more expensive showers to last any longer than budget end tritons .so I would say accept they are going to pack up pretty regular and just change it yourself for a triton easi fit at around 120 quid instead of several hundred for higher end

 

[muggles]

Always had good success with the Mira Sport Max 10.8kW