Bosch washing machines?

[DerbyBorn]

RJH wrote in news: [e-mail]:

Built by Turkish employees in Germany.

[Jim K]

is that a tongue in your cheek? ;>))

Jim K

[Tim Watts]

The big home-name banks all did it?

[eastender]

We've got a Miele washing machine - it came with a 10 year warranty and cost about £600. So far we've had two engineer call outs for minor issues and no charges.

It's a rock solid (and very heavy) appliance and I reckon worth the extra, especially with such a long warranty.

The previous machine blew its bearings after two years (a large capacity LG I think).

We also have a Miele dishwasher after the previous Bosch exploded - it blew the door open.

E.

[dennis]

In how long?

Its not going to be like the last Hotpoint I had, that lasted over 20 years and had no call outs.

If the wife didn't want a washer dryer I think it would still be going.

[eastender]

It's about six years old - both call outs were really for issues we caused so we should have been charged - first time detergent blocking internal line and flooding the bottom pan, second time banging on fast spin traced to a foot nut that had worked itself a bit loose...

You can be lucky with these things but with three kids our machine is on once, often twice a day. The Miele engineer who came the second time said she'd previously been at Hotpoint and the machines are not in the same class as Miele.

E.

[Mark]

I'm pretty sure that mine is caused by the machine being moved too many times.