rolls_rapide
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I would be grateful for advice concerning Beko dishwashers.
A relative's old Ariston slimline model packed up. She, on my advice, purchased a Beko DE2542 slimline model. All went well, installed fine, levelled with a spirit level, worked fine empty on a rinse cycle, pumped out okay too.
She then loads the machine with dishes, and this is where the problems start.
Putting six cups and mugs (standard size, mixture of stoneware mugs and Fine Bone China ones) into the top basket, will not allow the upper basket to be pushed into position. The weight of the partially or fully loaded basket seems to cause it to sag, preventing the upper basket feed pipe from mating with the water distribution socket, on the back wall of the machine.
The Beko method seems to rely upon a fixed hole arrangement in the feed pipe and perfect alignment.
Whereas my Bosch has a mobile, floating soft plastic gasket that allows a certain degree of upwards and downwards movement, to counteract such mis-alignment issues.
The old Ariston had no such issues either.
Has anyone else come across this?
She complained and she's to get a different brand of machine, quite rightly. She's pissed off by the whole palaver, and I'm annoyed because I recommended that she get the bloody machine in the first place: it seemed to be better built than some of the others.
A relative's old Ariston slimline model packed up. She, on my advice, purchased a Beko DE2542 slimline model. All went well, installed fine, levelled with a spirit level, worked fine empty on a rinse cycle, pumped out okay too.
She then loads the machine with dishes, and this is where the problems start.
Putting six cups and mugs (standard size, mixture of stoneware mugs and Fine Bone China ones) into the top basket, will not allow the upper basket to be pushed into position. The weight of the partially or fully loaded basket seems to cause it to sag, preventing the upper basket feed pipe from mating with the water distribution socket, on the back wall of the machine.
The Beko method seems to rely upon a fixed hole arrangement in the feed pipe and perfect alignment.
Whereas my Bosch has a mobile, floating soft plastic gasket that allows a certain degree of upwards and downwards movement, to counteract such mis-alignment issues.
The old Ariston had no such issues either.
Has anyone else come across this?
She complained and she's to get a different brand of machine, quite rightly. She's pissed off by the whole palaver, and I'm annoyed because I recommended that she get the bloody machine in the first place: it seemed to be better built than some of the others.
