our 5.5 year old dishwasher has failed
there is a leak detector in the base, which raises a polystyrene disc against a microswitch
In our one, it seems to leak about 2 desert spoons full of water over several washes, then stops working and shows "Error code E:15)
if you tip it up, a tiny bit of water runs out, then it works again for 2-3 days
The repair man sais it's probably the main pump, and not economical to repair. Mind you, I think his criteria was "is it a leaky pipe I can see or not".
Should I just scrap it, or try another approach?
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I only went with repair as it was integrated and i thought it would save me some hassle. I now use a hotpoint.
Chips are "Plant-based" no matter how you cook them
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You need to be fairly handy, I had to disassemble the plastic bits that held the float, and then remember how to reassemble it again. An intelligent person would probably film disassembly but I didn't think of that at the time! Once you get to the bit in the pic it actually comes off very easily, ours was just pushed into the seals with no other attachments, so it just lifted off.
strtdv said: so ..... stop the bit working that saves you from being electrocuted to death?
Chips are "Plant-based" no matter how you cook them
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With ours we were told it was an issue with the seal around the base. The base in ours was made from plastic so it eventually degraded and warped.
The repair man fixed it in 15 mins using silicon resealing the base.
I think moisture had got elsewhere though as we as we used it twice and the control board fried.
I’d scrap it.
I can't help about the shape I'm in, I can't sing I ain't pretty and my legs are thin
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I can't help about the shape I'm in, I can't sing I ain't pretty and my legs are thin
But don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to
If I hadn't have done that, I may have taken a couple of days trawling YT to try to fix it. Apparently there is a more in-depth maintenance procedure you can do - strip it, do something to the polystyrene disc, it's on YT.
Then again we had ours for 11 years so I didn't feel too bad replacing it.
My feedback thread is here.
you can take the disc out, but then it is inviting electrocution when the leak gets worse in the future
It took 3 visits to fix, and they replaced about 4 parts, but only cost us £100 in the end - they gave several parts and installation fees for free, which was decent of them. Dishwasher is around 6 years old.
Did you speak to BOSCH directly?