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"dave @ stejonda" writes:

The door on our 4+1/2 year old Bosch dishwasher has started catching
when we open it. The d/w continues to work fine.

Would this be an easy diy repair of adjusting something behind
the inside door covering or should I resign myself to a call out repair
cost? I'm concerned that if I do nothing the problem will accelerate to
non-functioning of the d/w itself.

I had exactly the same problem with a Whirlpool/IKEA dishwasher,
the door wouldn't fully open. Took side off to find a piece of
broken plastic had fallen into the hinge. The broken plastic
was the remains of a kind of pully (except fixed, non-rotating)
that metal tape slid round as you opened the door, and connected
to the door counter balance spring.

Phoned up CPC who looked it up in their exploded parts pictures,
and it was apparently called the front door friction brake. No
one had ever ordered one before, so they added it into their
computer system, giving it a part number, and I order 4 as it
cost next to nothing, and we have two such dishwashers in various
parts of the family.

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Andrew Gabriel