Best dishwasher under £600

[Ezan]

Hi everyone

I’m in the market for a dishwasher and I thought I’d start here on my quest for one. This website forum has been a tremendous help to me in the past in terms of research so I thought I’d make my first post.

My budget is around £600. It needs to be full size integrated. What are peoples thoughts and experiences on here as to what the best dishwasher would be for me for that price??

Thanks

[don]

There will be a diference of opinion amongst us 😉

Personally I would go for a Bosh series 4 as they have a full stainless steel inner. Those aside take a look at the Aeg ones.

If you are not in a hurry delay your purchase as Most manufacturers are still out of stock and as such are not prioritising dishwasher production. All of Hotpoint, Indesit and Whirlpool are all out of stock with lead times of 4 plus weeks. Bosch, Neff and Siemens are a minimum of 12 weeks minimum. Beko have no due dates and most of the budget end ones also.

A quick look on AO.com shows they have a few Hotpoint models and a Beko.

Don

PS Have deleted your duplicated post. It’s easier to keep in to one thread.

[Ezan]

Thanks for the reply Don, it’s much appreciated.
I think we’ve narrowed it down to 2 dishwashers…one is at the cheaper end and the other is a little over the budget.
They are:

Beko DIN28R22: £360
Bosch Serie 6 SMV68MD01G: £650

Is the extra price tag (almost £300 more) justifiable or am I just paying for the badge? The beko has some really good reviews online as does the bosch but is the extra expense worth it for the Bosch?

Thanks

[don]

It’s marginal, the Bosch gives you a few more bells and whistles and is slightly better on noise and energy consumption.

Having compared both quite closely I am impressed with the Beko 😉

Don

[Ezan]

What is the beko like in terms of reliability?

[don]

As good as anything else out there at the moment, spares are readily available and at reasonable prices. Beko guarantee is two year the same as the Bosch ones.

Don

[Ezan]

Thanks for that Don. The wife has just gone and ordered the Bosch as AO have it back in stock. Hopefully it serves us well!

[andyjawa]

Start saving up for a new heat pump!! Hopefully yours will not fail.

[andyjawa]

One of the biggest sellers that I used to seldom ever go to ( having given up 35{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of my business back in 2019 due to new parts failing with not much come back but I will not under any circumstances mention the reason why or which brand caused that……..replacement heatpump failure at typically 4 months.Bosch, ooops, I just knew that would happen! ) and that was of all things a humble Curry`s Essentials chinese dishwasher ( fellow Uk Whitegoods members all now have their heads shaking in hands! ): ok it`s cheap, a bit noisy but cheerful. The two I remember were no pump out problems = pump jammed by something or other, in other words someone did something they should not have done. I know of a Pro Action that is about 14 years old, a similar machine to a Currys Essentials under a different branding name back then. Kenwood and, the then entry level Beko were pretty good too from memory. My point is you can do an aweful lot worse at more than twice the price in the dishwasher world. Bosch as far as I`m concerned are not the machines they once were: the original SMS series from 25 years ago was a well built, well thought out, machine with a wash motor and outlet pump that could easily last 20 years plus. The new stuff is C21st plastic Mickey Mouse quality.

[Ezan]

So what brand dishwasher would you recommend?

[andyjawa]

None of them to be brutally frank. The adverse comments on Bosch are true put down to bitter experience BUT not all of them went or will go duff prematurely but a lot probably will. Beko are fair BUT there is a recent report that a pcb component can fail but the pcb are fairly cheap should that happen – although you do not normally buy stuff with a known problems do you Beko or Bosch? ( although plenty of people still buy VW/ Audis but they might be idiots – plenty of them drive like idiots! ). Miele go wrong – it`s a machine!!! – when they do you`ll be hammered on repair costs accordingly and some of those costs are bowel tremblingly horrific – you only hear about about the glowing success stories ( and many will be ) but you never hear about a water solenoid in the fill matrix that costs a rip off 167 quid that cost 12 quid to make. I do not like AEG/ Electrolux, Zanussi dishwashers. Hell, I do not even own a dishwasher. Just go with what your gut feeling suggests not what I or anyone else suggests.
You`ll have to just way things up. If I was to buy a dishwasher ( and that ain`t ever going to happen ) I probably would buy a Curry`s Essentials or a Kenwood, could even be the same machines at different prices since I no longer get involved with dishwasher or only rarely I`m going to be out of date somewhat but that is based on I never buy expensive pieces of kit ever whether appliances or motorcycles; I`d rather look after something that was a reasonable price and the least high tech I can get away with and when or if it fails sort it out. Rather than get caught in the too expensive to repair too expensive to scrap syndrome loop, in other words caught by the short ones!

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