Dishwasher repairman
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2018 5:09 pm
In this thread we answer questions about dishwasher repair.
But foist, a few observations about the general state of dishwashers in general. Dishwashers are built to last exactly one month over the factory warranty. No more no less. IF you buy an extended warranty the service department will use some weird sub-ether signal to instruct your dishwasher to stop working exactly one month over the warranty date. So extended warranties are pointless when it comes to dishwashers.
Another thing I noticed was the dedication to cost savings versus price point. All dishwashers are now built on the Revell Snap-Tite plan. There are almost no removable fasteners in today’s dishwashers. Everything is click together, snap together plastic. I bet Flack could 3-D print almost every working part on a dishwasher and make it better quality to boot.
We bought our dishwasher three years ago, when we moved into our new Casa del AArdvark. It wasn’t top of the line but it wasn’t a bottom feeder either. I started calling it Jorge. (Whore-hay) The Mexican household servant. Jorge worked just fine for about a year and a half then we noticed that the dishes weren’t getting as clean as they used to get. So we’d just run another cycle. It didn’t matter, it worked while we slept and the most we had to do was take the clean dishes out in the morning. Then as the months rolled by Jorge was getting worse and worse at his job. The pods weren’t dissolving all the way and the dishes were still dirty. The first and only serviceman we contacted about it said the water was too hot and the enzymatic reactions were diminished.
This from a guy that didn’t even open the thing and look inside. I called bullshit after he left because there’s a heating coil built into dishwashers that heats the water up to slightly below boiling. Enzymatic reactions, my ass!
So it’s on to the internet and see what others have to say. Meanwhile were back to doing dishes by hand. Not a bad thing, we did it for twenty years while living in the city but we PAID money for this thing and now it’s half dead. There were all kinds of internet reasons why dishwashers wont clean dishes, most of them didn’t apply to us. The fixes that did apply to us proved to be useless after we tried them.
So today I girded my loins and lugged my toolbox into the kitchen and had a go. How hard could it be?
Actually, not hard at all. Once I got it pulled out from it’s hole I was able to crawl around and have a close look at the guts. The circulation pump was working but it was making a funny noise. “Hum,” says I, “let me look into this a little closer.” So I unclipped the plastic doodads and pulled it apart. Turns out the impeller disk was detached from the motor spindle. They used a brass insert in the center of the plastic impeller mounted on a stainless steel shaft. The brass had been worn away to nothing.
But foist, a few observations about the general state of dishwashers in general. Dishwashers are built to last exactly one month over the factory warranty. No more no less. IF you buy an extended warranty the service department will use some weird sub-ether signal to instruct your dishwasher to stop working exactly one month over the warranty date. So extended warranties are pointless when it comes to dishwashers.
Another thing I noticed was the dedication to cost savings versus price point. All dishwashers are now built on the Revell Snap-Tite plan. There are almost no removable fasteners in today’s dishwashers. Everything is click together, snap together plastic. I bet Flack could 3-D print almost every working part on a dishwasher and make it better quality to boot.
We bought our dishwasher three years ago, when we moved into our new Casa del AArdvark. It wasn’t top of the line but it wasn’t a bottom feeder either. I started calling it Jorge. (Whore-hay) The Mexican household servant. Jorge worked just fine for about a year and a half then we noticed that the dishes weren’t getting as clean as they used to get. So we’d just run another cycle. It didn’t matter, it worked while we slept and the most we had to do was take the clean dishes out in the morning. Then as the months rolled by Jorge was getting worse and worse at his job. The pods weren’t dissolving all the way and the dishes were still dirty. The first and only serviceman we contacted about it said the water was too hot and the enzymatic reactions were diminished.
This from a guy that didn’t even open the thing and look inside. I called bullshit after he left because there’s a heating coil built into dishwashers that heats the water up to slightly below boiling. Enzymatic reactions, my ass!
So it’s on to the internet and see what others have to say. Meanwhile were back to doing dishes by hand. Not a bad thing, we did it for twenty years while living in the city but we PAID money for this thing and now it’s half dead. There were all kinds of internet reasons why dishwashers wont clean dishes, most of them didn’t apply to us. The fixes that did apply to us proved to be useless after we tried them.
So today I girded my loins and lugged my toolbox into the kitchen and had a go. How hard could it be?
Actually, not hard at all. Once I got it pulled out from it’s hole I was able to crawl around and have a close look at the guts. The circulation pump was working but it was making a funny noise. “Hum,” says I, “let me look into this a little closer.” So I unclipped the plastic doodads and pulled it apart. Turns out the impeller disk was detached from the motor spindle. They used a brass insert in the center of the plastic impeller mounted on a stainless steel shaft. The brass had been worn away to nothing.
