Another appliance thread: fixing a dishwasher

Hey, buddy got the job done, and made it home safely. Albeit with consequences... :D

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Originally Posted by XXX-er

So I get Bosch Canada to mechanicaly replace the first DW and i get DW #2 from Bosch, it runs great for about a week and then its not working WTF eh ?

So buddy come back with all the parts, he replaces everything in DW #2 and its still not working, but then he figures out something is wrong with the drain cuz it works by running it off directly into the sink,

The thing is he had alwasy tested it by hooking up to the old drain which goes down somewhere into the basement behind a wall or sft but it wasn't completely blocked and we never actuly see it back-up, SO buddy tells me to run out and get a 1 & 1/2" DW ABS fitting to just splice into the kitchen sink drain and we plug off that old drain pipe which isnt really his job but he wants to be done with this ... problem fixed

So postmortem he figures the old style Kitchenaid ran forever but then something happened down there and after 9 months the overloading of the motor and intermitently plugged drain may have burnt out the drain motor ?

so all that wanking about, down for almost 3 months, parts repalcement and eventualy the entire DW for a poor but not entirely blocked drain

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Had something like that happen when we got our new dishwasher - it would periodically not complete a cycle because it couldn’t drain and would throw an error.

Tried taking it all apart multiple times, cleaning lines, etc.

Turns out a seed or something had gotten into the drain line and would periodically be forced up into the air gap which blocked everything off.

Been running good ever since that fucking thing got removed.

The old Kitchenaid ran literaly for decades in that same spot but things were breaking so buy the new bestest DW out there should be fine was my thinking but now I realize DIFFERENT from this experiance

service bro said the design at least on the Bosch product is that the pump will try to pass water in a somewhat lackadaisical manner ( compared to the old DW's ? ) until they time out and thro an error code, btw its the same pump in all Bosch models which clips in and out for a simple no tool replacement

so there is a screen in the bottom and then you can get down to the pump impeller which looks more like a conical gear that left me wondering how it could move water and so I found grapefruit pits and bits of spinach had made it past that screen to the impeller.

takeaways for the fixing a DW thread :

I don't want that stuff to get in there so i plan to do a better pre-clean with a stiff brush and the sink sprayer,

run a drying agent sounds like a good idea

Make sure you have a good drain, i don't know why the drain which was ok for decades was no longer adequate but only intermittently after 9 months and thru the intermittent errors so instead of wondering we just eliminated it and ran direclty into the sink drain which we know is good

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Originally Posted by waxoff

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Reminds me a bit of an episode from the last millennia. After a tough weekend night out my friend eventually made his way back home on foot. Staggering up the stairs to his apartment he realises that he'll soon have to empty his stomach. Successfully inside the apartment he makes his way to the bathroom. As he nears the toilet seat, in the corner of his left eye he notices his gf brushing her teeth over the adjacent washstand. Anyways and without delay, happy to have reached his current goal, he barfs away...

Only to realize, he missed the little detail of opening the toilet seat first... His gf was not too impressed.

Moral of the story connected to the above: Make sure that the drain in question has capacity to receive whatever's coming!

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Best story ever ^^^ keep this shit goin


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Our dishwasher stopped working because the guys that remodeled the kitchen didn't put the high drain loop back. (We kept the old dishwasher because it was working fine. I originally installed it myself.) I put the high loop back under the sink next to the DW rather than taping it to the back of the DW. It works find that way.

Fascinating stuff