I had a replacement valve sent to me after 1-1/2 year. These valves are defective from the start brand new and Honeywell knows this but does not fix it. I am on my second valve that failed 1 month after it was installed, what a pile of crap! Now needing warranty replacement part for the defective warranty replacement part! an incredible waste of time and aggravation with 4 women in my house chewing my ass each and every single day! + I don't enjoy cold showers either! the valve Rheem sent me is part# WV8860C1008. The water heater is less than 2 years old and I have had about of 6 months carefree use for all of that time. The water heater cost $600, its a Rheem 40 gallon, 38,000 BTU Ultra Low NOx model number XG40T06EN38UO. I'm handy so I installed it myself it has a bogus "6 Year" warranty. Only the first year covers labor the rest is just for parts. So to have reliable hot water this unit requires you to "stock a replacement valve at all times and to fill the landfill with the defective ones" what garbage, what no class action lawsuit? sign me up for one. The Honeywell valve has been known to be defective for years, why can't they or why are they unwilling to fix this? and why are they allowed to keep selling their junk in the world? Somebody needs to wipe them off the map with a better product, Honeywell and their products need to go to the scrap heap with all of their defective parts to save the world ecology and the customer as well, they need to become a bad memory in the past tense