<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Between various houses over the last 5 years I\u2019ve had at least three new Bosch dishwashers if not more, along with older ones in previous homes. Never had to have one serviced yet. They were all run almost daily, never had an issue and they kick butt. Just did a load early in the day.<div><br></div><div>My only complaint is that they changed the design of the silverware basket in the bottom rack to a two-piece setup in newer models which sort of sucks, IMHO. I bought an older 1-piece silverware basket for ours on eBay. Works great. Never had one with the upper rack silverware basket.</div><div><br></div><div>-D <br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 17, 2025, at 11:47\u202fAM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">We love our Bosch dishwasher and use it about 5x weekly. Had a few repairs in the [past 5 years, but nothing significant. Highly recommended.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 1:40\u202fPM Allan Streib via Mercedes <<a href="mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com">mercedes@okiebenz.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u><div><div style="font-family:Arial">My old KitchenAid dishwasher has stopped working. Appears that the pump motor is siezed. New pump assembly available from RepairClinic for $169, motor alone is $149 but I'd probably go with the whole assembly since that all has to come out anyway to replace the motor.</div><div style="font-family:Arial"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">On the other hand the unit is about 20 years old. Is it worth repairing? Stainless steel tub but most of the guts are plastic and it's all looking pretty brittle at this point.</div><div style="font-family:Arial"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">I'm going to run by the local scratch-and-dent appliance place and see what they have.</div><div style="font-family:Arial"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">Lowes had a "Midea" brand (looks like Chinese?) that they claim is highly rated by Consumer Reports for about $450. Anyone know anything about those? Also Samsung, or Frigidaire or Amana etc. models for even less. I'm not convinced there's a ton of difference at that price point but maybe? Amana used to be a good brand but I think it's just another Whirlpool label at this point (as is my KitchenAid). I'm a bit wary of Samsung based on reviews of their other stuff.</div><div style="font-family:Arial"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">Can't see dropping the $$$ on a Bosch, Miele, Fisher&Paykel or similar.</div><div style="font-family:Arial"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial">Thoughts?</div></div>-- <br>
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