The cunting dishwasher has packed up. It’s a decent Bosch, and I had it repaired at high cost about 18m ago. It’s not heating up, and that’s the expensive bit. It’s fucked.
So my choices are:
1 - get a £600 premium one like a Miele or Siemens, which should last 5-10 years but they’ll only guarantee it for two. Parts are likely to be expensive.
2 - get a Beko for under £200, expect it to die in 3 years. Rinse and repeat.
3 - call in Bosch service, which will cost £95 and they might offer a decent one at a good price, but they might just offer to repait this one for another £250 on top of the £95.
I’m leaning towards 2. What do you guys think? Better ideas welcome.
Depends how old it is. Our Bosch washing machine is 25 years old, used at every opportunity by Janbald and has broke about 3 times, never more that a £100 bill .
Our local, independent, master of all things in white says it’s built like a commercial machine so we should keep it running. Last fix 5 years ago when the plastic on the control nob bust. He found a used one.
So perhaps find an independent fixer if it’s old enough to have the build quality.
Heating wise, ours is a long way from the cylinder so we would only get cold water anyway. We only feed in cold and heat to 30 / 40 degrees.
Do you have hard water Adam? We have a 2nd hand Bosch and have installed a water softener. The dishwasher has been running trouble free for a couple of years now and it gets serious use. It could just break down of course but it looks good at the moment. The previous 2 died because of our hard water.
The last time it broke the repair guy said that the part that broke was the pump/heater - for some reason Bosch designed it with a single part. It was very expensive - £200 or so - and I suspect that it’s this that has broke again. It’s a poor design.
Same here - we have a washing machine which is essential and had a dishwasher but it kept leaking. So we done away with it and installed a cupboard and a wine rack instead.
