Two years ago I posted on Immoral Waste when I upgraded from XP to Vista on my laptop. CJ aka Scriptor Senex has been having similar problems recently going to Windows 7. We have long lived in a throw away economy and I'm realistic enough to accept that during my lifetime things are unlikely to change as we demand and get more and more consumer goods produced at relatively cheap prices. I also understand the principles behind keeping spare parts in stock and the cost of spare parts relative to the price of the finished articles of which they form part. I did it at Uni and I've run my own business. BUT, and here there is a big BUT, I cannot believe that a small electric drain motor which is made by the million or even billion and is found in almost every washing machine or dishwasher coming out of China costs HALF the price of the dishwasher out of which it came. That is without any installation or labour costs which is what usually makes replacement parts uneconomic.
The impeller came off the dishwasher after I arrived back in NZ. The dishwasher is only used about once a week when The Family come down to dinner so that's hardly major usage over three years. What looked like a simple repair isn't possible so I went to order a new motor. $291.30. WHAT! The dishwasher was $600 3 years ago. Of course I'd be able to get a new one on the internet. Perhaps in the UK or US but NZ is a very small market and we don't have access to as many websites for these things. We don't even have Amazon NZ! Although I did find a website selling them but at a minimum of 1000 units per order. Perhaps not!
So for the time being I have a dead dishwasher sitting on the deck.
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