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20041006 Wednesday October 06, 2004

It's dead Jim...

It looks like our dishwasher is dead. It's a Bosch SGS43A12GB, is only two years old and apparently has a dead heater. I'm told that on many dishwashers this wouldn't be too bad since the heating elements are exposed and can be replaced easily, much like the element in a kettle. However, Bosch in its wisdom concealed the water heater underneath and the engineer tells me that this basically means a complete rebuild on top of the cost of the new heater. Since a new heater is likely to cost over GPB100 and the rebuild labour is probably going to be around the same, it's just not worth it. It's a write-off.

So, be warned. Don't buy a Bosch dishwasher unless it has an exposed heating element because they apparently don't last very long and, when they break, they're not worth fixing.

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