What is the worst dishwasher you've ever owned, and why?
What is the worst dishwasher you've ever owned?
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GE Nautilis that was in the cabin. God awful noisy and left crap all over everything. The guy I bought the cabin from was a chef which explained the double MT ovens and high output top. But he must have been used to having someone clean up after him.
Early/mid 1980s BOL WCI Frigidaire with no filtering which left ground beef stuck to everything and deformed a Mr. Coffee Tea Maker pitcher via the heating element. It was in the first house I bought and I quickly replaced it with a KUDS22.
mieleforever
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LG!!
Very unreliable, It had the small wash arm that was fixed to the lower wash arm, that thing constantly fell off.
Had issues with the latch as well, as in it would not lock the machine, constant error codes. The Led setup died, so you had no idea whether the machine was switched on or on what cycle it was, you had to guess. We eventually gave it away to my mother in law.
We bought one for my mother, also an LG, terrible, the wheels on the rack started to crumble within the first six months of use, and my mother does not really use the machine that much, only over weekends. That machine also had a lot of issues regarding the error codes, it would wash for about 20 minutes then drain and cancel the program. Eventually the repairman said that there was some or other fault with the computer, that cost a lot of money so mother just decided to scrapp the machine.
So all in all, we had two LG's both of which failed within their first four years.
LG - Life is not so good!!!
Cheers
Very unreliable, It had the small wash arm that was fixed to the lower wash arm, that thing constantly fell off.
Had issues with the latch as well, as in it would not lock the machine, constant error codes. The Led setup died, so you had no idea whether the machine was switched on or on what cycle it was, you had to guess. We eventually gave it away to my mother in law.
We bought one for my mother, also an LG, terrible, the wheels on the rack started to crumble within the first six months of use, and my mother does not really use the machine that much, only over weekends. That machine also had a lot of issues regarding the error codes, it would wash for about 20 minutes then drain and cancel the program. Eventually the repairman said that there was some or other fault with the computer, that cost a lot of money so mother just decided to scrapp the machine.
So all in all, we had two LG's both of which failed within their first four years.
LG - Life is not so good!!!
Cheers
lordkenmore
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Lord Kenmore can say with certainty that the worst dishwasher he's used is the one he is using now, and has, indeed, used most of his life: himself. Too many dishes have been broken. Some dishes haven't gotten as clean as they should on the first pass. His hands cannot tolerate water temps high enough to sanitize. And then there is the pure drudgery.
LordKenmore should instruct his minions to bring him a new modern DW forthwith
I vote for GE 2800. Nice looking, lots of lights and dazzle but it would have made a better lawn sprinkler! It lasted 3yrs and then the pump went bad. Decided not to fix it and let it go.
Don't know that I've ever lived with a truly awful dishwasher. I'd say the weakest of the lot would probably be the 1974 Lady Kenmore. It didn't do a great job with pots/pans, but it had the groovy Roto-Rack which was fun. It rusted out relatively quickly, although my stepfather kept patching it. I graduated from high school in '77.
I moved back home after college to take care of my mom. When she passed away in '84, I purchased a TOL Kitchen Aid. It had timer/electronics problems---it quit on Thanksgiving when I had a houseful of people, of course---but it felt like a Cadillac compared to the tinny Kenmore. The KA heated the water before the first wash, and it cleaned pots/pans better than the Lady K.
I have to say my favorite dishwasher was a TOL 2008 LG. Cavernous interior, very quiet, great cleaning, steam, heavy-duty racks, LED-lit interior, classy glass control panel. Unfortunately, a small crack in the drain hose gradually ruined part of the kitchen floor and underlayment which led to some expensive drama. It went to a new home at 5.5 years old. [this post was last edited: 6/12/2015-11:50]
I moved back home after college to take care of my mom. When she passed away in '84, I purchased a TOL Kitchen Aid. It had timer/electronics problems---it quit on Thanksgiving when I had a houseful of people, of course---but it felt like a Cadillac compared to the tinny Kenmore. The KA heated the water before the first wash, and it cleaned pots/pans better than the Lady K.
I have to say my favorite dishwasher was a TOL 2008 LG. Cavernous interior, very quiet, great cleaning, steam, heavy-duty racks, LED-lit interior, classy glass control panel. Unfortunately, a small crack in the drain hose gradually ruined part of the kitchen floor and underlayment which led to some expensive drama. It went to a new home at 5.5 years old. [this post was last edited: 6/12/2015-11:50]
iheartmaytag
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Frigidaire
Lasted one month when I bought the house. Dishes came out dirtier than they went in.
Lasted one month when I bought the house. Dishes came out dirtier than they went in.
lordkenmore
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>LordKenmore should instruct his minions to bring him a new modern DW forthwith
He has. Alas, the peasants be in revolt.
He has. Alas, the peasants be in revolt.
I'll throw in another GE Nautilus to the pile of craps. Bought probably around '05-'06, my dad got a settlement check from a saga of disability/workman's comp fraud, and with part of that money he bought us a portable dishwasher, as our sink was the porcelain coated cast-iron variety that couldn't be cut or drilled into. I begged him to let me help choose it, but of course, I was a "kid" and knew nothing about what I was saying, and he brought home what would be a gigantic headache for myself and a point of argument between my parents and I.
First problem was its tendency to never fill to the point that it needed without choking on air, and our old clogged faucet didn't help it. The first few weeks of having it was torture, because I could hear the pump struggling and knew that water was barely moving around inside the tub, but try as I might to explain to my dad why it wasn't working properly, he told me to "just leave it alone and it was doing its job fine" despite the crud that would be left on dishes in the top rack. So, I had to devise a system, since I was the main one to do the dishes and laundry anyway, and this system was to pull the hand sprayer over at the beginning of each fill and put 45 seconds worth of water in manually. He finally realized something wasn't right when I showed him the difference between the water levels and how the machine performed, but it took three months of me doing that for him to get it. We replaced the sink faucet entirely, which restored water pressure and enabled the machine to fill properly, BUT it still didn't solve half the problems that dishwasher had. Not to mention it was loud, and was a pain to roll back and forth.
I still to this day get annoyed even thinking about it, because at the time I had picked out a perfect portable Whirlpool PowerClean, which was slightly less expensive than the GE but would have been a leaps and bounds better performer, and quieter. Still, beg as I may, he would never let us try and return the GE, and to this day my mom now has it since he passed away, although it is built in at the house she's in now.
First problem was its tendency to never fill to the point that it needed without choking on air, and our old clogged faucet didn't help it. The first few weeks of having it was torture, because I could hear the pump struggling and knew that water was barely moving around inside the tub, but try as I might to explain to my dad why it wasn't working properly, he told me to "just leave it alone and it was doing its job fine" despite the crud that would be left on dishes in the top rack. So, I had to devise a system, since I was the main one to do the dishes and laundry anyway, and this system was to pull the hand sprayer over at the beginning of each fill and put 45 seconds worth of water in manually. He finally realized something wasn't right when I showed him the difference between the water levels and how the machine performed, but it took three months of me doing that for him to get it. We replaced the sink faucet entirely, which restored water pressure and enabled the machine to fill properly, BUT it still didn't solve half the problems that dishwasher had. Not to mention it was loud, and was a pain to roll back and forth.
I still to this day get annoyed even thinking about it, because at the time I had picked out a perfect portable Whirlpool PowerClean, which was slightly less expensive than the GE but would have been a leaps and bounds better performer, and quieter. Still, beg as I may, he would never let us try and return the GE, and to this day my mom now has it since he passed away, although it is built in at the house she's in now.
joeypete
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I can't say I've ever had a dishwasher that was awful. Just a couple that were beyond loud. One in particular was an old Hotpoint I had in my apartment in Tucson. I moved into it in 2010 and that dishwasher had to have been from the 80's, at least. It actually didn't work when I moved in but the handy man came by and fixed it. I thought I might have gotten a new dishwasher haha. I don't remember how it cleaned but man it would wake the dead. I'm thinking it was basically the GE Potscrubber. It had the metal buttons and all.
The other was in another apartment in NH. It was a mid 2000's Whirlpool. Pretty BOL with a manual dial. Again, wake the dead territory. lmao.
Someday I'll get me a fancy machine. Either Bosch or KA. But for now I'm happy with my MOL Frigidaire Gallery.
The other was in another apartment in NH. It was a mid 2000's Whirlpool. Pretty BOL with a manual dial. Again, wake the dead territory. lmao.
Someday I'll get me a fancy machine. Either Bosch or KA. But for now I'm happy with my MOL Frigidaire Gallery.
The WORST dishmachine EVER!
Has to be that stupid Auto-Chlor A-4 at my previous job. What a waste of stainless steel. The silly thing could not even wash glassware properly in less than 2 cycles. Dishes came out dirtier than they went in. I know this is true because when using a commercial DW I rinse very thouroughly.
The design was so bad that it wasted 3.5 gallons of water per rack, the door counterbalance chains broke and fell off all the time, the upper wash arm often fell off and broke dishes, it wasted a tremendous amount of chemicals and the drain sump was above the pump intake so you could never fully drain the dumb thing.
The silver lining is that after3 years of nonstop pressure I got them to put in a Hobart. That made things much better.
WK78
Has to be that stupid Auto-Chlor A-4 at my previous job. What a waste of stainless steel. The silly thing could not even wash glassware properly in less than 2 cycles. Dishes came out dirtier than they went in. I know this is true because when using a commercial DW I rinse very thouroughly.
The design was so bad that it wasted 3.5 gallons of water per rack, the door counterbalance chains broke and fell off all the time, the upper wash arm often fell off and broke dishes, it wasted a tremendous amount of chemicals and the drain sump was above the pump intake so you could never fully drain the dumb thing.
The silver lining is that after3 years of nonstop pressure I got them to put in a Hobart. That made things much better.
WK78
mrb627
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Two-Fer!
Worst performer was a GE plastic tub machine.
But a dishonorable mention goes out to the Kenmore Elite branded Kitchenaid that seized up and tried to burn my house down.
Malcolm
Worst performer was a GE plastic tub machine.
But a dishonorable mention goes out to the Kenmore Elite branded Kitchenaid that seized up and tried to burn my house down.
Malcolm
Burning down the house!
Thanks mrb627, for reminding me of the only DW I came to hate more than the Auto-Suck. Shortly after I moved in with Katie that POS Hotpoint DW got stuck in the heating cycle, OVERNIGHT!
I started the stupid thing @ 2100 when we were going to bed, woke up @ 0230 to (drain the wash tank) and found the machine still running in the heating cycle! I temped the water or what was left of it @ 98.7C. Many plastic items had been deformed. (For comparison a commercial high temp conveyor DW washes @ 71C and rinses @ 82-86C) Needless to say that pile of shit was out on the curb and replaced with a WP PowerClean in short order.
I now share a kitchen with Black Beauty. She is a wonderful KUDS-23 with classic Hobart style and a WP Powerclean wash system. It runs in the family as both my Grandmas had KDS-15's and my Mother had a KDP-20. My aunt also still has a WP PC9000 energy saver.
WK78.
Thanks mrb627, for reminding me of the only DW I came to hate more than the Auto-Suck. Shortly after I moved in with Katie that POS Hotpoint DW got stuck in the heating cycle, OVERNIGHT!
I started the stupid thing @ 2100 when we were going to bed, woke up @ 0230 to (drain the wash tank) and found the machine still running in the heating cycle! I temped the water or what was left of it @ 98.7C. Many plastic items had been deformed. (For comparison a commercial high temp conveyor DW washes @ 71C and rinses @ 82-86C) Needless to say that pile of shit was out on the curb and replaced with a WP PowerClean in short order.
I now share a kitchen with Black Beauty. She is a wonderful KUDS-23 with classic Hobart style and a WP Powerclean wash system. It runs in the family as both my Grandmas had KDS-15's and my Mother had a KDP-20. My aunt also still has a WP PC9000 energy saver.
WK78.
Admiral dishwasher worst ever!
The worst dishwasher I've ever had was an Admiral by Maytag dishwasher! Dishes came out dirtier than when they went in! It would scream during the wash cycle at times! I didn't even bother washing dishes by hand! And yet I still had to start the dishwasher twice or even three times just to get the dishes washed! What a piece of crap! I thought my dad's Whirlpool Gold point voyager dishwasher, which my mom had at the time was the worst, that was until that stupid Admiral so-called dishwasher sucked at cleaning anything! My Whirlpool Gold dishwasher is 2000 percent better! I hate washing dishes by hand! I need a decent dishwasher! Maytag... You suck!
The worst dishwasher I've ever had was an Admiral by Maytag dishwasher! Dishes came out dirtier than when they went in! It would scream during the wash cycle at times! I didn't even bother washing dishes by hand! And yet I still had to start the dishwasher twice or even three times just to get the dishes washed! What a piece of crap! I thought my dad's Whirlpool Gold point voyager dishwasher, which my mom had at the time was the worst, that was until that stupid Admiral so-called dishwasher sucked at cleaning anything! My Whirlpool Gold dishwasher is 2000 percent better! I hate washing dishes by hand! I need a decent dishwasher! Maytag... You suck!
mysteryclock
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I was going to say the late-90s GE Profile plastic tub one that really wasn't that great and in spite of having some kind of "quiet pack" was really very noisy.
But instead, I think the honor of worst has to go to the early 2000s KA tall tub. It never really cleaned super-great (not living up to the KA reputation of my childhood one), and after phosphates were eliminated it pretty much started leaving some crud on everything. Especially the four corners of the top rack, which became no-load zones unless you wanted high-fiber glasses.
Then it tried to catch on fire.
Twice.
It was finally lemoned out by Sears (yay extended warranty!) and I replaced it with a Bosch w/ built in softener. Never had a better dishwasher!!
But instead, I think the honor of worst has to go to the early 2000s KA tall tub. It never really cleaned super-great (not living up to the KA reputation of my childhood one), and after phosphates were eliminated it pretty much started leaving some crud on everything. Especially the four corners of the top rack, which became no-load zones unless you wanted high-fiber glasses.
Then it tried to catch on fire.
Twice.
It was finally lemoned out by Sears (yay extended warranty!) and I replaced it with a Bosch w/ built in softener. Never had a better dishwasher!!
gefilterflo
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The worst I've had is on of those two cycle wonder single spray armed Frigidaire machines that I have had in two different apartments. Clean dishes on the top rack come out dirty. I replaced one with a Kenmore Ultra Wash III and haven't looked back.
miele4life
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Time to add something European to the mix.
The first dishwasher we had was a Candy-made Hoover CyrstalJet D820 when we moved into our current place in 2000, not that it was unreliable as it ran for 8 years without a hitch but it just never cleaned very well no matter what programme or detergent was being used. If only we did our research then and we could of had something better but oh well. Then it was replaced with the flagship Miele G1833SC in 2008 and we never looked back, comparing the 2 is like comparing a tatty sailing boat to a luxury cruise liner, it just can't compete.
The first dishwasher we had was a Candy-made Hoover CyrstalJet D820 when we moved into our current place in 2000, not that it was unreliable as it ran for 8 years without a hitch but it just never cleaned very well no matter what programme or detergent was being used. If only we did our research then and we could of had something better but oh well. Then it was replaced with the flagship Miele G1833SC in 2008 and we never looked back, comparing the 2 is like comparing a tatty sailing boat to a luxury cruise liner, it just can't compete.
