Dishwasher woes

[Welderpaul]

We have a AEG Pro Intensive Favourite dishwasher. About 3-4 years old.

It has the usual spinny arm thing under the top basket, but no matter how well you make sure there are no remnents of food left on the dishes, food is getting inside the top spinny arm and blocks the little holes the water is supposed to come out of meaning it doesnt clean properly.

I have to take the arm off, take it apart, bat it to get the bits of food free, put it all together, put everything back in etc etc. Gets really tiresome and its happening more and more often. The top arm has been off so many times the little spring clips have snapped off and i have to put a cable tie on every time to hold it on.

All the filters are clean, tried dishwasher cleaner, but it still does it. Before I throw it out of the door, is there anything esle to try?
Anyone had/got the same problem?

 

[hermetic]

the bits in the arm should only be an occasional annoyance, I have cleaned the arm in our Bosch(very average) dishwasher about twice in at least ten years. if it is happening regularly it is a sign that food particles are getting past the filters there should be a coarse filter, and a very fine nylon mesh filter, somehow, the bits are getting past them, run the machine empty with the arms off and some dishwasger cleaner in it, and make sure both filters are present and seating properly.

 

[stuvy]

Give the plates a super quick hot rinse to knock off the most under the kitchen tap

my parents does the same and drives them mad

 

[Matchless]

I could send Ted round, plates hardly need washing after he has done a pre-wash!

 

[Sean]

....
Anyone had/got the same problem?

yup my family think the dishwasher is a waste disposal unit, plastics, food waste tins with labels etc Im forever stripping and cleaning . Finally the thing stopped producing the water pressure needed to activate the spray bars a new pump/element unit £140. new machine just over £200 so it was a no brainier being as the old one was 9 yrs old.
Stripped the old one to see what it was ...a plastic yoghurt pot lid had gone all soft and been sucked in to the impeller where it cooled and went hard again.

extracted it and it sits as a reminder of how expensive washing bits of plastic that should have gone in the bin can be

 

[Brad93]

the bits in the arm should only be an occasional annoyance, I have cleaned the arm in our Bosch(very average) dishwasher about twice in at least ten years. if it is happening regularly it is a sign that food particles are getting past the filters there should be a coarse filter, and a very fine nylon mesh filter, somehow, the bits are getting past them, run the machine empty with the arms off and some dishwasger cleaner in it, and make sure both filters are present and seating properly.

I’ve got a Bosch and my mums got a Bosch. Hers is brilliant, cleans great after years. Ours, always leaving things dirty and sometimes I have to run a few cycles with nothing in there! Poxy thing. I’ve tried everything.

 

[Parm]

Dish washers, utter waste of time

 

[brightspark]

Dish washers, utter waste of time

mine isn't she does all the housework as well

 

[Ton-up]

My missus does most of the cooking and I do most of the washing up. A set of Bluetooth headphones, youtube on the ipad, set on the window cill and I loose myself for a while!

 

[Barking Mat]

Dish washers, utter waste of time

We dont currently have one. Wife would prefer one.

 

[Mick Annick]

I rinse off everything before putting it in the machine, no problems so far

 

[Tigman]

Dirty horrible things dishwashers !
Wouldnt be without now though hurts my back doing a manual wash at the sink !

 

[sg66]

Rarely rinse anything, things only don't get clean if filters are clogged, if stuff is getting into arm it's either getting past filters or scale is building up and coming off.

We have a cheap built in beko and it only ever gets used on short wash and never have issues, when we do we will do same thing we do with washing machine, throw it away and replace it.

 

[frank horton]

Brad 93,
a friend in the white goods trade told me after the event ,only buy Bosch white goods if it says made in Germany on the plate....
I found out the hard way......refitted my mums house out, comp new kitchen and all the white goods we're Bosch...
Thought I'd buy top dollar....mmmmm 14 Months the oven quit and not long after that so did the washing machine.......
the dish washer did last 2 years tho......Never again Bosch....it was the main programme switch that quit on the washer, new switch £180......washer was around 240 from Curry's....it was a while ago.........
I now go to the local store buy what looks decent, nothing fancy and no gizzmo's, has a 2 year warranty....mostley here it's all Chinese....!!!!
if it falls to bits after that I dont care.......
shame tho....

 

[4String.]

Before I throw it out of the door, is there anything esle to try?

 

[julianf]

Ours has a coarse filter and a really fine one.

Never get issues with the arms blocking.

However, if I don't clean the filters virtually every time, there's dishwasher scum in the bottom of the cups at the end of the job.

I don't much mind. Does not take much longer to give the meshes a quick rinse than to get the cleaning potions out the cupboard and into the dishwasher.

 

[the snooper]

Surely if food is getting inside the spray bars then the filter is failing and letting the pump pick it up

 

[stuvy]

mine isn't she does all the housework as well

really made me laugh

 

[p0689109]

By the time you scrape the food off and rinse the plates clean you could do the dishes in the sink bowl and have them dried and back in the cupboard so I find them pointless and smelly. I have never had one but my son has and it causes him no end of trouble.

 

[armalites]

We've had a couple of Bosch dishwashers, first one bought secondhand then the latest is a Miele.

We did have the blocked jet issue on the Bosch but we've never had that issue with the Miele. When bought it every single member of staff in the big independant said get a Miele even though there were other units that had longer warranties, every single member of staff had a Miele at home.

We never rinse anything, it just goes straight in although the dogs have often cleaned the plates before the door gets shut .