I had to take the automatic needle threader off my Juki TL as it hardly every worked properly and I can thread the needle faster without it! It also made fitting the walking foot and ruffler/pleater almost impossible as well! I love the thread cutter which can be operated by my foot or a button on the machine. But, it does have the world's most useless light. I used to have a Pfaff Performance 5 which had really poor bobbin cover, very cheap plastic and the plastic underneath the changeable needle plate was so soft it got mis-shapen each time the needle plate was changed.