N8N wrote:
On Thursday, January 30, 2014 12:26:16 PM UTC-5, Oren wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 07:32:54 -0800 (PST), N8N

wrote:



It may or may not be leaking now, but it *will*.



Leakage is the most common failure in DWs. A friend works for a

subrogation lawyer regarding insurance claims and sees it all the

time.

Hah... at my last house the DW when we looked at it the first time was an
ancient Maytag unit. We asked the sellers if it worked and they couldn't
say, as they hadn't used it the entire time they'd lived there (odd
people. Nice, but odd.) We were going to make an offer on the place
anyway, but apparently their realtor told them to replace it to make the
house more marketable. When we showed up for the final walk through it'd
been replaced with a new bottom of the barrel GE unit. The moron
installers didn't put a clamp on the hose to the sink drain pipe...
yeah, you guessed it. I'd rather they'd left it alone... I would have
tried to repair the old Maytag, myself.

nate

I went cheap with a DW replacement many years back. Bad idea...

When the old KitchenAid that came with the house finally died, I went to a
used appliance store and picked up a no-frills GE that was still wrapped in
the original plastic. Turns out not only was it no-frills unit but it was
also broken. The soap dispenser door wouldn't open. The guy I bought it
from determined the door spring was missing. He found one that would fit
and installed it.

The unit lasted maybe a year and then all sorts of things started going
wrong with it. It was so cheap that I probably got my money's worth out of
it from a usage perspective, but not from a convenience perspective. Way
too many hassles.

It just doesn't pay to go cheap.