The rot is everywhere inside the cooking chamber. The grates are almost ready to fall into the chamber because the little shelf at the back that supports them has corroded and only about 30% is left. I don't think I do anything wild with it for this to happen. I've used it on average twice maybe three times per month. Some months a lot more than that, some months I didn't use it at all.
The heat manifold started to rust pretty bad after 2 or 3 months of using it almost every week. Oh the excitement of a new grill :-) . The screws that hold it in place were already un-screwable at that time. I wanted to pull it out to inspect it, forget it, impossible.
At the time I didn't think much of that, but now I realize the unit isn't made to last. A pity because I love it (as you do) and the flavor from using basic charcoal is very nice.
