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Spent 4 hours chasing a weird noise in a 3 year old dishwasher
Got a call for a Bosch dishwasher making a grinding sound only during the rinse cycle. I checked the pump, the motor, even the spray arm bearings, all fine. Turns out a tiny piece of a broken glass had wedged itself between the sump housing and the wash tank, just enough to scrape every time the water flow changed. It took forever because the noise was so intermittent. Anyone else had a simple fix hidden behind hours of diagnostics?
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emma_garcia13d ago
Honestly, that sounds like a huge waste of time for a simple problem. You should have just replaced the whole wash tank assembly from the start. Spending hours on a tiny piece of glass is bad for business when a new part would have fixed it faster.
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smith.elliot13d ago
Read an article last year about how appliance repair is basically detective work now. The writer said the hardest problems are often the simplest ones hiding in plain sight. Your story proves that point perfectly. Spending those hours to find the glass means the whole machine doesn't get thrown out over a tiny fault. That's the real skill, even if it doesn't feel fast.
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