I guess we are buying a new dishwasher - anything but Frigidaire (merged threads)

NJres · 11-05-2009, 10:18 PM

yimminie! How did I not end up in the Cafe? And no "delete" button? How embarrassing!

ucsd_ucla_dad · 11-05-2009, 10:22 PM

I have a Bosch that's works very well and is super quiet. I think they even have a factory in North Carolina. I wonder if they have a factory clearance center there?

NJres · 11-05-2009, 10:22 PM

Somehow posted this in the Parents Forum (non cafe) Guess that happens when I get so furious I CANT SEE STRAIGHT!!!!!

I am so ticked! 1 1/2 yr old dishwasher is dying. Already wasted $65 on a service call. He diagnosed a bad fan which would be $200 but now I am quite sure there are other issues: it has a row of switches on the door that are going bad. No way am I spending money on this piece of junk. That is a trap into which I will not fall! You know, the old... spend $65, then another $200, then something else goes wrong which costs $350, then after spending $605 the thing breaks again so the guy comes out and works on it some more... free! ha, but your dishwasher still isn't working... yeah, that trap.

So, what do you recommend in a dishwasher? My wife longs for our old Miele, so we will likely get one of those, but I remember it being a painful $1000 even back then when I had a job!

Great timing, tho. North Carolina has a tax-free weekend for energy star appliances!! But dishwashers for some reason are not included. Darn!

I would like to take this old thing and ship it back to Frigidaire. grrrrrrrrrrrrr!

shelley14 · 11-05-2009, 10:25 PM

I agree with the Bosch. We had to replace ours a few years ago and I have been very happy with my Bosch. The only thing I do not like is you can not turn off the automated heated drying. I knew that going in and went for the interior space that it offered.

ucsd_ucla_dad · 11-05-2009, 10:25 PM

I posted on your other thread but here it is again -

I have a Bosch that's works very well and is super quiet. I think they even have a factory in North Carolina (New Bern). I wonder if they have a factory clearance center there?

Wartsandall · 11-05-2009, 10:29 PM

You can always try ebay. We've never bought a dishwasher there, but we have purchased other products and ended up saving hundreds of dollars. It's worth looking into.

swimcatsmom · 11-05-2009, 10:30 PM

You can delete by going to 'advanced' when you edit. But it has to be done withing 20 minutes. Not that it matters too much.

MaineLonghorn · 11-05-2009, 10:32 PM

Another vote for Bosch!

BunsenBurner · 11-05-2009, 11:34 PM

Listen to your wife. I'm glad I listened to my husband.

My Miele Optima model G2430 SCU does a nice job. It is uber-quiet and has controls on the front panel, not hidden (a gimmick for which you'll pay more). I love the third shelf for silverware.

Warning: my Thermador dishwasher (a Bosch clone) sprung a leak in the middle of a night! The %^*#@ was empty and not working when it happened! Sorry, I'm anti-Bosch now.

PackMom · 11-05-2009, 11:41 PM

NJres....we bought a Bosch nine months ago from Lowes. I love the quietness of it. I like the delay feature and half-load feature (now that we are empty nesters).
I'm not as thrilled with the rack arrangement for dish placement. Maybe we just use more bowls than than the average household. I didn't study the insides as much as I should have when we shopped. It's prob. fine for everyone else and I'm just weird

1moremom · 11-06-2009, 07:08 AM

Another vote for Bosch. Some guys working in my kitchen once told me about a demo they saw in which a frozen pizza was put it a Boscsh dishwasher, then run hrough a wash cycle and when the dishwasher was opened the pizza had completely "vanished".

lje62 · 11-06-2009, 07:36 AM

I have been going back and forth for over a year with my 5 yr old JennAir refridgerator...I know , not a dishwasher , but one thing I have been told by both the Sears warranty repairmen and private repairmen is that all major appliances are built like crap and not meant to last. The energy efficiency is supposedly what kills them...We also have a Dell flatscreen tv that is 4 yrs old that has died...the general consensus is they are too expensive to repair.
Why do all things for your home seem disposable now ?

PA Mom · 11-06-2009, 07:54 AM

Asko is great too....mine is 10 years old and has never been serviced. The racks are even stiil like new which is amazing.

kitty56 · 11-06-2009, 07:54 AM

My boss is always having one or another of her major appliances fixed (washer, dishwasher, dryer, refrigerator, oven) and they are very high end that are only about 9 years old now and this has been happening for the last several years. Her heating system is a disaster, again high end.

Ours have been in our house for over 16 years and we have not had one bit of trouble with any of them. Most of them are Kenmore (Sears) and the dishwasher is a GE potscrubber. I was assuming I would just go with Kenmore again when we do need to replace, but if it is the energy efficiency that is killing them, that probably won't help. I agree that too many things are just "disposable" now.

mapesy · 11-06-2009, 07:57 AM

Another anti-Bosch former owner here. The circuit board in our Bosch dishwasher burned out twice in 6 years and the dish racks fell apart and rusted at about 5 years.

The malfunctioning circuit board is/was a common problem. (Google Bosch dishwasher circuit board problem.) I wouldn't buy another Bosch dishwasher unless I had assurance that the circuit board problem had been corrected.