Finding Parts for Discontinued Grills

When a manufacturer discontinues a model, it often keeps selling wear parts for years afterward. Some parts are shared across many model generations. And brands that were bought or merged sometimes continue supporting the old line under a new name. So the first job is figuring out exactly what you have and who supports it now.

If the firebox and hood are solid, it's usually worth some effort to find parts. Wear parts are the easy part of the hunt, and rebuilding an old premium grill with fresh burners, ignition and heat plates often gives years of good cooking. Our restoration service does exactly this.

The search usually ends at proprietary gas parts. When the valves are failing and no compatible replacement exists, or the burners are a unique cast design no one makes, the grill has reached its practical limit. At that point see repair or replace and replacing a built-in in the same cutout, which keeps your island intact.

Parts for older grills come from a few places. The manufacturer or its current parent company is the first stop, even for models that were discontinued years ago, because wear parts are often kept in stock long after the grill itself. Authorized parts distributors carry deep inventories and can often look up superseded part numbers. Aftermarket makers produce model-fit burners, heat plates and grates for popular older grills, and some of them are well made.

Service companies are the other source. Techs who see the same grills week after week learn which burner from a newer model fits an older firebox, which igniter kit works on a grill whose original module is gone, and which parts simply don't exist anymore. That knowledge saves a lot of trial and error. It's also worth asking whether a part can be repaired rather than replaced: a seized hinge, a loose handle or a broken knob stem sometimes has a simpler fix than a new assembly.