miele4life
Well-known member
Hi all, sorry if it has been a long time since I posted on here but I'm back to tell you all the truth about 1 of my appliances and why money doesn't always guarantee happiness with them.
Way back in the Summer of 2008, my old Hoover Crystaljet D820 dishwasher was on its last legs and the time came for a new 1, owing to how brilliant my Miele Platinum 6 washing machine was and still is today, naturally we decided to go for Miele for the dishwasher as well but not just any old model, I set my heart on the most expensive 1 at the time being the flagship G1833SC which cost about £1200 then even though we were entering a recession at that point in time. So anyway, we ordered it, had it installed and marvelled at all the features it had, it felt like we've got the ultimate in dishwashing providing perfectly clean dishes with its plethora of programmes and options.
While the honeymoon period was good for the first few years of owning it, something started to go amiss sometime after that where the machine would do the initial drain out after the programme was started but after that it would just do nothing and that's how it would be later in its life and I couldn't quite figure out what the problem might be, quite disappointing for a model that we paid so much money for, especially for a brand that's built on a reputation for high quality & reliability.
Another problem is that although it's the flagship model with every feature imaginable, how many times would you use a programme for things like tall items or plastics? Probably not a lot while Without Heater is a joke, the dishes won't get hygienically clean that way so there's some programmes on it that 1 could easily do without. Realistically, all you really need on a dishwasher are Intensive, Normal, Eco, Quick & Pre-Rinse programmes while Sensor/Auto cycles can also be useful.
So does a flagship Miele dishwasher buy you happiness? In short, No. While a flagship model sounds like you've getting the very best but it doesn't always translate into something that you'd expect to be brilliant and what I've found is that it hasn't always been reliable and there's some features that I've never used on it, making the £1200-odd purchase price not worth it. So soon, I'll be happy to downgrade to a mid-range Siemens IQ500 which has just the right amount of programmes and features and for a more reasonable price too. So after a decade of an expensive machine that wasn't always up to the job, it's time for a good downgrade to a machine which will be the sweet spot for dishwashing.
Moral: Don't blow your money on a flagship dishwasher, you may regret it later like myself.
Way back in the Summer of 2008, my old Hoover Crystaljet D820 dishwasher was on its last legs and the time came for a new 1, owing to how brilliant my Miele Platinum 6 washing machine was and still is today, naturally we decided to go for Miele for the dishwasher as well but not just any old model, I set my heart on the most expensive 1 at the time being the flagship G1833SC which cost about £1200 then even though we were entering a recession at that point in time. So anyway, we ordered it, had it installed and marvelled at all the features it had, it felt like we've got the ultimate in dishwashing providing perfectly clean dishes with its plethora of programmes and options.
While the honeymoon period was good for the first few years of owning it, something started to go amiss sometime after that where the machine would do the initial drain out after the programme was started but after that it would just do nothing and that's how it would be later in its life and I couldn't quite figure out what the problem might be, quite disappointing for a model that we paid so much money for, especially for a brand that's built on a reputation for high quality & reliability.
Another problem is that although it's the flagship model with every feature imaginable, how many times would you use a programme for things like tall items or plastics? Probably not a lot while Without Heater is a joke, the dishes won't get hygienically clean that way so there's some programmes on it that 1 could easily do without. Realistically, all you really need on a dishwasher are Intensive, Normal, Eco, Quick & Pre-Rinse programmes while Sensor/Auto cycles can also be useful.
So does a flagship Miele dishwasher buy you happiness? In short, No. While a flagship model sounds like you've getting the very best but it doesn't always translate into something that you'd expect to be brilliant and what I've found is that it hasn't always been reliable and there's some features that I've never used on it, making the £1200-odd purchase price not worth it. So soon, I'll be happy to downgrade to a mid-range Siemens IQ500 which has just the right amount of programmes and features and for a more reasonable price too. So after a decade of an expensive machine that wasn't always up to the job, it's time for a good downgrade to a machine which will be the sweet spot for dishwashing.
Moral: Don't blow your money on a flagship dishwasher, you may regret it later like myself.
