Interesting assessment, Combo52.
I understand you do a lot of appliance repair?
What's your general read on the reliability of these current GE dishwasher architectures?
My X-arm Profile has been working pretty good since the water treatment has been solved.
I do agree with you in a sense that, it's not the BEST dishwasher out there. But it does perform pretty well for me. Enough to live with at least until it's no longer salvageable. I'm willing to live with it's little nagging issues, to get the pretty amazing features it has. I LOVE the Bottle Jets. Not gonna lie. And the choice of different level half loads.
The top rack seems to fit my dishes fine for the most part. The clips for the fold-down tines cause issues of placement for some of my glasses, but that's it.
It seems like your dishes do not sit well in their rack design.
My parents have this style GE too, and they have one set of "fancy" glasses that don't sit well in one of the rows either. They flop around.
Cleanability is somewhat less in the Profile's top rack as well.
I've mostly rectified it by getting RID of the x-shape upper arm.
I've swapped it with the standard models' s-shape upper arm.
It's longer, gets the corners better, and since all the jets are in one line, it seems to spray more water around in wall-shape fashion, than spreading the jets across 4 arms, cause too sparse of a spray with the very small jets.
They x-arm would leave grit on the backsides of certain glasses in the top rack.
The s-arm has greatly diminished this, though not totally eliminated it.
The bottom rack? NO cleanability issues what soever. GE nailed that bottom rack in my experience.
I'm also very surprised at your drying issues!
My experience has been very different.
When I run the machine at night, I never really use Heated Dry (mine is a legit Heat Dry with a heating element). The little fan runs for 90 minutes if uninterrupted, and the next morning, the dishes are very dry.
Using Heated Dry, I've had perfectly dry dishes after the end of the cycle, sans the deep wells in mugs or grooves in plastic-ware.
I'm in agreement, the filter screens are not very "self cleaning" in these machines. Not nearly as good as Andrew's Whirlpool.
I've been rinsing out the filter every week or so. And that seem satisfactory to my performance. I also put VERY dirty dishes in my machine, which does my filter no favors I'm sure.
Drain pumps being intermittent? As far as I know, that's how the majority of modern dishwashers are today. The pulsing drain adds turbulence to the sump to help "clean" the filter screen.
I can see where you might have issues in the repair department. Installing my GE, it was quite difficult due to the fact that there's NO ROOM underneath that darn thing. I feel your pain.
I understand you do a lot of appliance repair?
What's your general read on the reliability of these current GE dishwasher architectures?
My X-arm Profile has been working pretty good since the water treatment has been solved.
I do agree with you in a sense that, it's not the BEST dishwasher out there. But it does perform pretty well for me. Enough to live with at least until it's no longer salvageable. I'm willing to live with it's little nagging issues, to get the pretty amazing features it has. I LOVE the Bottle Jets. Not gonna lie. And the choice of different level half loads.
The top rack seems to fit my dishes fine for the most part. The clips for the fold-down tines cause issues of placement for some of my glasses, but that's it.
It seems like your dishes do not sit well in their rack design.
My parents have this style GE too, and they have one set of "fancy" glasses that don't sit well in one of the rows either. They flop around.
Cleanability is somewhat less in the Profile's top rack as well.
I've mostly rectified it by getting RID of the x-shape upper arm.
I've swapped it with the standard models' s-shape upper arm.
It's longer, gets the corners better, and since all the jets are in one line, it seems to spray more water around in wall-shape fashion, than spreading the jets across 4 arms, cause too sparse of a spray with the very small jets.
They x-arm would leave grit on the backsides of certain glasses in the top rack.
The s-arm has greatly diminished this, though not totally eliminated it.
The bottom rack? NO cleanability issues what soever. GE nailed that bottom rack in my experience.
I'm also very surprised at your drying issues!
My experience has been very different.
When I run the machine at night, I never really use Heated Dry (mine is a legit Heat Dry with a heating element). The little fan runs for 90 minutes if uninterrupted, and the next morning, the dishes are very dry.
Using Heated Dry, I've had perfectly dry dishes after the end of the cycle, sans the deep wells in mugs or grooves in plastic-ware.
I'm in agreement, the filter screens are not very "self cleaning" in these machines. Not nearly as good as Andrew's Whirlpool.
I've been rinsing out the filter every week or so. And that seem satisfactory to my performance. I also put VERY dirty dishes in my machine, which does my filter no favors I'm sure.
Drain pumps being intermittent? As far as I know, that's how the majority of modern dishwashers are today. The pulsing drain adds turbulence to the sump to help "clean" the filter screen.
I can see where you might have issues in the repair department. Installing my GE, it was quite difficult due to the fact that there's NO ROOM underneath that darn thing. I feel your pain.
