Dishwashers lifespan

Unless you make your own house bricks up from scratch, build your own house, walk to the local stream with a bucket you chopped down with an axe you made, including forging the the steel, and making your own clothes, growing the cotton and spinning and dying it, you're lazy
 
Had an old Hotpoint dishwasher that was amazing, it cleaned brilliantly, sipped rinse aid and softener and lasted 18 years, towards the end of its life though I was chasing a multitude of issues and the parts became increasingly difficult to get hold of. So when the drain pump went we got rid of it. Unfortunately this was at the start of COVID and the world went mad buying up white goods, so ended up with a grundig, (I believe grundig and beko are the same). Anyway I hate, it doesn't clean very well, drinks rinse aid and softener to the point it became so expensive we just rely on the tablets now, and the control panel cracked in multiple places of its own accord. Says it comes with a 5 year warranty, I registered it, but when it flooded a few months back went to call them out and they said they had no record of me registering it, showed the confirmation email they said it looked like might have been on their old system and not migrated but they couldn't take my email as proof. Anyway I managed to fix it myself.

Will be avoiding beko/grundig/candy et al in future.
 
Mum and dad had a Bosch DW that lasted 19 years. I think it would have still been working, it would not empty its water. I think it just got clogged with fat over Xmas, I had no idea how to unclog it. Chances are a DW from 2003 would no longer have spare parts available. The replacement is nowhere near as good, the former was German made, the latter is not. Trouble is you only know for certain where Bosch DA's are made until you see where its made on the Packaging.
I bought a Bosch Fridge last year - Made in China :mad::(
 
Had a Beko which lasted something like 10 years, was shocked tbh.

Now got a series 6 Bosch which projects all the program details onto the floor as it washes, super handy.
 
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we have a beko fridge freezer. 13 years old and (touch wood) is fine. I hope it doesn't break as it's a non standard size and built into the kitchen

also have a haier heat pump tumble drier. can't comment on longevity as only 3 years old but it barely uses any electricity.
 
Firestar_3x said:
Had a Beko which lasted something like 10 years, was shocked tbh.

Now got a series 6 Bosch which projects all the program details onto the floor as it washes, super handy.
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Wtf. What do you need to know? I only use eco (standard) and fast (if for some reason I want to don't quick)

What do you need to know?
 
Firestar_3x said:
Had a Beko which lasted something like 10 years, was shocked tbh.

Now got a series 6 Bosch which projects all the program details onto the floor as it washes, super handy.
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Only thing i find annoying with the Bosch is that it's like a PC, when I switch the power on at the wall it takes 30 seconds to boot up before I can select a wash cycle
 
413x said:
Wtf. What do you need to know? I only use eco (standard) and fast (if for some reason I want to don't quick)

What do you need to know?
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Primarily how long the wash cycle has left and at what stage it is, i.e. can i add a missed dish in.

Should I point out you can monitor progress, see energy and water usage / stop and start the thing via wifi, lol.

Grim5 said:
Only thing i find annoying with the Bosch is that it's like a PC, when I switch the power on at the wall it takes 30 seconds to boot up before I can select a wash cycle
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Just keep ours turned on all the time, the power switch on the unit is a soft button so its just booted up and connected to the wifi all the time, probably uses almost no power.
 
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I find the WiFi feature on our AEG dishwasher to be pretty useless, I think the only feature that's half useful is you can enter a tablet stock count in the app and it'll warn you when you're getting low.

I don't see any value in knowing the cycle as it tends to be set and forget and there's less cycle types versus a washing machine.

It's more useful on the washing machine because there's not only more types of cycles, but they can be tweaked in terms of time length and temperature etc. plus there's a really cool feature that you can sync the last ran cycle to the tumble dryer so it'll set the dry cycle to whatever kind of thing you just washed.
 
Firestar_3x said:
Primarily how long the wash cycle has left and at what stage it is, i.e. can i add a missed dish in.

Should I point out you can monitor progress, see energy and water usage / stop and start the thing via wifi, lol.



Just keep ours turned on all the time, the power switch on the unit is a soft button so its just booted up and connected to the wifi all the time, probably uses almost no power.
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Oh I see. Yeah that's just on a panel on mine. I'm guessing yours is integrated or something?
 
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