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   CloudHidden | May 25, 2002 08:49pm | #1

   Have a Bosch dw and love it. Fits everything. Quiet. Almost 2 years later looks brand new. It's the model with the controls on top so the front is just plain ss. Only missing feature is the delayed start.

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   BillHartmann | May 25, 2002 09:09pm | #2

   You may want to ask this in the Fine Cooking forum. They have a whole section just on kitchen equipment.

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   MrsReese | May 25, 2002 10:07pm | #3

   I did a lot of research into this when my Asko Asea broke. (Fine Cooking was a good place for info.) I found out Asko Asea's, for one, have a bad maintenance reputation. Turns out Bosch does, too. It's funny, though, that they work really good. All the reports on performance were sterling. It's almost worth it. After my Asko was broken for a month and my husband wouldn't fix it, I took it all apart and spread it over the kitchen. He still wouldn't look at it. So I did the only other thing I could think of. I went shopping for a new dishwasher. I found some at a clearance sale and dragged my husband back there to look at them. We didn't buy one, but when we got home he FINALLY looked at the Asko and poked around with the multimeter. The white power wire was broken in two where it flexed every time the door was opened and closed. We put in a butt splice and reassembled it. Works great again. Didn't have to buy any $250 timer motors.

   So if "maintenance problems" is going to be something you can fix without buying expensive European parts, I think it's all right. Have you got a multimeter and some butt splices? Buy the Bosch.

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   BKCBUILDER | May 26, 2002 04:31am | #5

    I put in a Asko Asea for my wife 12 years ago. Nice SS model, looked good, blah, blah blah, anyway $700 later, first  day the pump fell off the bottom, flooded the new floor. Repaired it, and it went for a good 8 years of every other day light use. The wires broke in the hinge area also, twice. I started looking to the Bosch as a replacement. I have a friend who supplies the appliances for my new homes, who kind of set me straight. A big tub and a pump, with a timer. He sent over a Maytag gratis. I have plenty of Bosch tools, but they won't get my coins for a SS tub and pump.

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   r_ignacki | May 25, 2002 10:41pm | #4

   after getting a bogus dimension for one of their dishwashers, and having to shoehorn the thing in, I wouldn't build/install/cut-out anything until after getting the appliance.

   no turn left unstoned  

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   caldwellbob | May 26, 2002 08:11am | #6

   The little woman and all her friends who come over love the Bosch dw. Quiet, efficient, etc. I've had it since 1998 with nary a problem, so I'M A HAPPY CAMPER

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   Piffin | May 26, 2002 03:28pm | #7

   I have plenty of ASKOs installed for clients and only one problem so far(except that the plumbers seem to take longer to install them. They are so quiet that I had one customer call to say that it wasn't working, because she couldn't hear it stand right next to it. She had bought it because it was located near the formal dining room.

   BTW - VIKING units are ASKO with a VIKING nameplate.

   Bosch units look good on display too and are quiet.

   Another good quiet unit is Fisher and Paykle (SP?) which is a drawer type tub.

   I haven't installed either of the last two but my impression from talking to sales reps is that the most likely problem to be encountered with any of these is poor installation (plumber who jams it in without leveling the legs, etc) or the new electronics. The Asko unit I had a calllback on was a bad control computer. They hit me $400 on that one for the part! on an 800 dollar machine, no less - and just after out of warrantee.Excellence is its own reward!

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   BillHartmann | May 26, 2002 06:26pm | #8

   Piffin

   I think that they have all gotten quieter.

   My sister got a new GE about 2 years ago. I did not realize that it was running until I heard water gurgling in the sink when it was in the drain cycle