GHD Original Straighteners

These GHD Original Straighteners have been owned since new for a number of years and they still work.

However, during that time, I needed to glue one of the heat pads back on because it came off. The mains cable is quite long, but has a nick in it, so I have taped it over it with black tape, see photo. While they still get very hot I'm not sure they get as hot as they used to