Let's face it: despite your best intentions, you never clean your barbecue, and half the time you forget to put its rainproof cover on. So, what I was after for my 3rd or 4th gas barbecue was one that looks after itself outdoors. I therefore picked this model out on the strength of the claim that most of the parts are stainless steel (SS).
That claim is not completely true. The hood is SS, the front panel is SS, the flame spreaders are SS; the doors of the cabinet have SS fronts and galvanised steel backs (they're a box construction); the walls and base of the cabinet look like (grey) powder-coated steel to me; the drip tray is SS; the body of the grill is enamelled steel; the burners, griddle and hot-plate are cast iron; the metal parts of the casters would appear to be nickel-plated steel. The incomprehensible `aluminum die cast end side' apparently refers to the curved bits at either end of the handle of the hood. So my disappointment relative to the claimed specification is restricted to the cabinet not being stainless; I'll just have to wait and see whether it rusts.
Having said all this, my overall impression on taking all the parts out of the box was that we were looking at a well-designed and solidly built piece of equipment. The cabinet doesn't skew when you lift or push it about; the casters swivel on ball bearings. The side burner has a neat flap over it when not in use. The plastic rain-proof cover is the usual fairly flimsy affair, but it does have velcro strips to help it stay on.
The assembly instructions were in English, so you don't have to guess the meaning of silly cryptic diagram symbols. However, there could have been more words giving hints about which way round to present the parts to each other. A little spanner is provided for attaching the casters, but you'll need your own screw-driver for most of the assembly; a few of the bolts have limited access (around the bottom of the side burner), and here a stubby screw-driver is an advantage. The bolts all go into captive nuts, and they line up correctly without having to force anything.
Be prepared for the size: once assembled, the unit is 23" (59cm) deep and 53" (135cm) wide. You'll need an extra 7" (18cm) of depth between the rear of the unit and the wall, to give the hood room to open up. The drip tray pulls out from the rear of the unit, so you'll need to wheel it forward to operate this. The cooking area is 24" x 18" (61cm x 46cm), of which half has a ribbed hot-plate and the other half a griddle. These being in cast iron are much better than the feeble chromed wire grids you find on cheaper barbecues! There are 3 burners, so the middle one is at the junction between the two halves of the cooking area. With a lot of food to cook, you'd probably always turn all 3 burners on; for just a couple of chops, one burner should suffice. That circular blob you can see in the middle of the hood _is_ a thermometer, as you would hope, and it's calibrated in both Celsius and Fahrenheit. The `warming rack' means a little wire rack above the rear of the cooking area. On some barbecues this slides back and forth as you open and close the hood; on this one, the rack is fixed.
There is a hook for hanging the gas bottle on, but it can equally well fit inside the cabinet, at the top of which there is plenty of open space for ventilation and for the gas pipe and its regulator to be passed through. Ah - the regulator! The one supplied is for propane gas, whereas you might be hoping to use calorgas (butane). If so, you need to buy a different regulator. All of the burner controls, including the side burner, have individual piezo gas-lighters. As you turn the knob on, the lighter operates with a click and the knob starts in its full-on position. Keep turning to set the flame lower. The lighting worked first time for me.
Overall I am pleased with this barbecue, and it is cheaper than most others of similar specification. My only reason not to give it full marks is the failure of the cabinet to live up to the claim of being in stainless steel.