{"id":978,"date":"2008-03-11T14:55:36","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T18:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/11\/who-else-has-a-bosch-dishwasher-how-doe"},"modified":"2008-03-11T14:55:36","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T18:55:36","slug":"who-else-has-a-bosch-dishwasher-how-does-it-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/11\/who-else-has-a-bosch-dishwasher-how-does-it-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Who else has a Bosch dishwasher?  How does it work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Folks:  In an effort to become the consummate condo-dwelling yuppie, I replaced my 10-year-old (mid-priced) Whirlpool dishwasher, whose cleaning power was beginning to fade, with a $1200 Bosch.  The new Bosch leaves food on silverware and dishes and can&#8217;t clean pots or pans.  The Whirlpool, at age 10, did a far better job.  Compared to the Whirlpool when new (throw in any dirty dish, without scraping or rinsing, and pots with all kinds of stuck-on crud), the Bosch is a joke.  (<a href=\"http:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/materialism\/kitchen#dishwasher\">full story<\/a>)  Anyone else have a Bosch dishwasher?  How does it compare to your old American-style dishwasher?<\/p>\n<p>[Update:  After four service visits, Bosch figured out that the circulation pump on this machine was defective.  Service visits number 5, 6, and 7 were devoted to bringing out a replacement part, opening the box, discovering that the replacement part was also defective, and driving away. On service visit number 8, the Bosch guy showed up with a working replacement circulation pump and installed it.\u00a0 The dishwasher seems to work better now.\u00a0 It only took 25 phone calls, 8 days home from work waiting for the repair guy, and more than twice as much money to get a dishwasher that works as well as the 1996-vintage Whirlpool (which never required any service in 11 years).\u00a0 Surely there is no better time to be a yuppie&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[Update 2: I moved to a new house in October 2008. The house had a fancy stainless steel Bosch dishwasher already installed. Problems that occurred within the first 6 months: (1) the lower spray arm cracked and fell off; (2) the soap dispenser would not close reliably; the seal at the bottom of the dishwasher leaked. After those were fixed (don&#8217;t ask what it cost!), the dishwasher worked reasonably well (nowhere near as well as the ancient Whirlpool) for a few months then suffered a 100 percent failure whereby it refused to start (though all of the LEDs behaved sensibly).]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folks: In an effort to become the consummate condo-dwelling yuppie, I replaced my 10-year-old (mid-priced) Whirlpool dishwasher, whose cleaning power was beginning to fade, with a $1200 Bosch. 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