Bosch dishwasher door repair

door repair Door failure is a real scourge of modern Bosch dishwashers. Just 12 years ago, the company produced “unkillable” equipment, and that’s why, because they didn’t use small plastic parts, only metal. Now, unfortunately, there is more plastic, and fragile plastic. Well, okay, let's leave this on the conscience of the manufacturer. Now our task is to repair the dishwasher door, but first we need to understand whether it is really broken and what is the reason for the breakdown.

Symptoms of failure

Understand that the door Bosch dishwasher It wasn't that hard to break. A breakdown will certainly manifest itself with obvious symptoms that cannot be ignored. What can happen?

The door will no longer stay in the half-open position and will begin to fall with a roar if you do not hold it with your hand.
The door will stop latching, and it may still latch, but only after pressing firmly on the door.
The door will begin to creak and jam terribly. At the same time, its movement is very difficult.

In the worst case, the door will jam so that it will stop opening and closing altogether.

The door is designed quite simply, so there can only be three reasons for the above symptoms. Either the locking device is broken, or the smooth opening mechanism is damaged, or the hinges require lubrication or replacement. Let's try to figure out how to eliminate these three types of faults.

The door falls or does not close properly

The most common problem is the door falling off.Once we open it, it falls freely under the influence of gravity to the “wide open” position. If this type of fall occurs, the door may receive additional damage, so you have to hold it when opening it. The bad thing is that if such a breakdown occurs, the door cannot be left ajar so that the washing chamber dries out after the program is completed, which in turn is fraught with the formation of mold inside and destruction of the rubber gaskets. How to identify the problem?

We completely disconnect the dishwasher from all communications and pull it out of the niche in which it was installed. There is no need to remove the door front.
Some models have side walls that need to be removed.
We walk around the side of the dishwasher and look at the very bottom of the cabinet. There is a groove in which there is a spring, a cable and plastic adapters.
Surely in such a situation, either the cable broke or, most likely, the plastic adapter broke, disconnecting the cable from the spring. This caused the locking mechanism to break.

Having specifically determined what is broken, we can go in two ways. Firstly, we can go to the Bosch company store (you can visit the online store) and order a new plastic part. It is inexpensive, but after repair there is no guarantee that the problem will not recur because the plastic is fragile, and the load, taking into account the weight of the door facade, is quite large. Secondly, we can slightly rework the mechanism, making it much more reliable, but for this we will have to try a little more. We offer the second option, so that “in a human way”, do it and forget it.

We remove the spring and cable from the groove to the side so that these parts do not interfere with us.
At the end of the groove from the rear wall we drill a hole for the bolt.Take a bolt 5 cm long.
We retreat three turns from the edge of the spring and insert a washer with a wide brim.
We insert a bolt on the back side of the spring so that it passes through the washer inserted into the spring. The bolt thread should be almost completely out of the spring.
We put a washer on the thread, and then screw on the nut, firmly connecting the bolt to the spring. You need to tighten it firmly so that the washers do not move left and right.
We take the end of the cable that goes to the spring, put a washer on it first, and then a nut. We tie the end of the cable with a knot so that the nut and washer do not come off.

Instead of a washer and nut, you can use a hook made of steel wire, but the connection will not be as reliable.

Using pliers, carefully bend three coils of the spring on the opposite side.
We insert the washer with the cord between the turns and clamp them well. At this stage you may experience some difficulties, but you have to try.
Thus, the spring is connected to the cable, and at the other end a fairly long thread comes out of it.
We place the spring with the cable in the groove, and thread the pin into the drilled hole.
We put a wide-brimmed washer on the exposed thread, and screw a nut on top, firmly fixing the spring in the groove.

What did we get? And we got the following. The spring sits firmly in the groove, and the cable is securely attached to it, without any plastic “gamyrs”. To break such a connection, you will need, at a minimum, to break the strong cable, which consists of synthetic fiber, and this is very difficult. We check how the door opens and closes; if everything is fine, then we assemble the machine and connect it to the communications.

The door does not latch

The locks on Bosch dishwashers are quite reliable; they rarely break, but they get blocked quite often. If you press too hard on the door when closing it, the problem immediately appears. A blocked locking device stops functioning. After that, you can slam the door as much as you like, it won’t do any good, it won’t close. What to do?

First of all, don’t panic, this is not a breakdown, but rather an annoying flaw in the locking mechanism. Take a screwdriver, open the dishwasher door and look into the upper part of the washing chamber. There should be a small metal tab sticking out there. We press on this tongue with the tip of a screwdriver with a little force, it should click and go into the depths of the locking mechanism. We try to close the door. If the door latches normally, the problem has been resolved.

In the future, to prevent the problem from recurring, latch the door with a light movement, without force. There is no need to press on the door.

Creaks and moves hard

If your Bosch dishwasher door squeaks and is difficult to move, you should first lubricate the hinges. Take WD-40 and spray each hinge from the can through a straw. Move the door several times to distribute the lubricant throughout the mechanism. Leave the dishwasher alone for 10 minutes and then try opening and closing the door again. If the problem persists, you will have to look at the hinge mechanism for integrity.

We remove the side walls of the dishwasher and inspect the hinges. In some cases, they may become slightly deformed from impact during transportation, or a foreign object may become lodged in them and cause them to jam. Repair will depend on the cause and nature of the failure, but usually this does not create serious problems. Bend the deformed elements using a flat-head screwdriver and pliers, after which the hinges should begin to perform their function normally.

So, we have looked at the typical problems that can arise with a Bosch dishwasher door, as well as how to fix these problems. If you still have any questions, write comments on the article, and also create topics on our forum. Our specialists will definitely sort out your breakdown and provide qualified advice. Good luck!

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3 reader comments

01/27/2019 at 14:30
Anton:

Is it possible to order such repairs from you, as described in the article using a cable?

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04/14/2019 at 16:29
Sergey:

Thank you very much for the video! In the end, I did it according to your principle, only with the help of lifting brackets.

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04/14/2020 at 23:14
Gennady:

Hello! Bosch dishwasher stops working. After pressing the door it works. I take it there's something wrong with the door sensor?

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