POD 6/18/16 Whirlpool Dishwasher Ad

I don't think I've ever agreed with someone more than I do right now with John!!! I cannot go back to using a dishwasher without the silverware basket in the door. My '01 PowerClean GU940 is my pride and joy and I could never part with it, and now my WDT920 is taking up the reigns as one of the best performing and well built dishwashers I've ever had the pleasure of owning or using. And of course, both machines have been and are regularly loaded to the brim with the door and tub bottom looking exactly like John's PC pictures, and with just a Normal wash everything will sparkle. My mom in law actually had the exact machine from that POD and seemed to enjoy it despite it not being the quietest in the world..

I know that some present the argument that the "bullnose" style rack offers more space than having the silverware removed, but I myself don't see it. I get frustrated loading my grandparents' Kenmore Elite or the mother-in-law's new Maytag because of that rack style. Plates tend to want to roll around and bang when the rack is moved because they don't "lock" into place along the front edge like they do in the WPs, and I've found that extra space to only accommodate two or three extra bowls, which could be argued to have fit in the space where the silverware basket sits on the side of the rack anyway.

The only complaint I've ever had with the basket in the door is that every once in a blue moon, a stray noodle or piece of lettuce/spinach that gets knocked off a dish will get wedged between the door and basket, but it happens so rarely with this new machine, I hardly think of it anymore. It actually happened more frequently in the PowerClean because the basket had a solid back.


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Post# 885849 6/18/2016 at 11:25 (2,867 days old) by kd12 (Arkansas)
Checkrate/Likes Has anyone had experience with this machine? It looks like it would make a good daily driver, although I'm not crazy about the silverware holder in the door.

Post# 885869 , Reply# 1 6/18/2016 at 14:54 (2,867 days old) by TomturbomatiC (Beltsville, MD)
Checkrate/Likes They are excellent dishwashers, BUT, if a lot of food soil is put into the machine, it CAN lodge in the door-mounted silver basket. It's not like those newer KAs that put all of the soil in that mesh small items basket, but you can find food particles in with the silver. It might be that when I found the particles like pieces of veggies it was because the machine was very heavily loaded. I have a newer version with the front rack extended into that space and the silver basket on the side of the lower rack so the water shoots up from the wash arm from underneath the silver basket and it has the soil separator system. Due to the excellent filtration system in Whirlpool dishwashers, I don't think that it was soil that was in the wash stream that landed in with the silver, but just something that was blown off something else and landed there before it could get captured. The silver basket can always be removed from the door and placed along a side of the lower rack, but you would lose some capacity.

Post# 885886 , Reply# 2 6/18/2016 at 16:49 (2,867 days old) by stevet (West Melbourne, FL)
Checkrate/Likes *Original design?* Was just wondering if Whirlpool actually built these machines of their own design or were the rebadged and modified in any way for WP? Both the upper and lower washarms seem to be reminiscent of the D&M dishwashers, while the door design was very different from what D&M built. When did WP go to the tower thru the lower rack to drive the upper arm and make the machines themselves?

Post# 885892 , Reply# 3 6/18/2016 at 18:07 (2,867 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN)
Checkrate/Likes My neighbor had this machine in coppertone. That thing must have been a good one because she kept it for several decades!

Post# 885907 , Reply# 4 6/18/2016 at 19:28 (2,867 days old) by Combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)
Checkrate/Likes 1 *Mid-1970s whirlpool built-in dishwasher's* These machines were incredible performers. They had nothing to do with D&M dishwashers. The only dishwashers whirlpool ever sourced from D and M were there built-ins before 1958 and some 18 inch machines in the 80s and beyond. Once you have lived with the indoor silverware basket design you'll never want anything else, it is by far the easiest basket to load and unload. I literally drop silverware from up to 2 feet above it you don't even have to bend over to load the basket. To unload you merely lift the basket out lay it flat on the counter-top and you can pick up the pieces of silverware once you open it up without touching this the part you eat off of. I almost never find anything caught in this basket maybe an occasional thing that's dropped it when you're loading but probably not once in 20 loads do I find a food particle in this basket. Here are a few pictures of a typical Bob Load that my Whirlpool dishwasher does every other day this is a late 80s model. Photos... < > Photo 1 of 13 View Full Size

Post# 885909 , Reply# 5 6/18/2016 at 19:33 (2,867 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)
Checkrate/Likes *Opps* The first three photos were of my GE DW, Which I Hate, I have been trying it out for about 6 months but it won't be here long.

Post# 885921 , Reply# 6 6/18/2016 at 20:40 (2,867 days old) by appnut (TX)
Checkrate/Likes GE John, I was gonna say, that's no PowerClean those first few pics.

Post# 886033 , Reply# 7 6/19/2016 at 16:07 (2,866 days old) by murando531 (Augusta, Georgia - US)
Checkrate/Likes 3 I don't think I've ever agreed with someone more than I do right now with John!!! I cannot go back to using a dishwasher without the silverware basket in the door. My '01 PowerClean GU940 is my pride and joy and I could never part with it, and now my WDT920 is taking up the reigns as one of the best performing and well built dishwashers I've ever had the pleasure of owning or using. And of course, both machines have been and are regularly loaded to the brim with the door and tub bottom looking exactly like John's PC pictures, and with just a Normal wash everything will sparkle. My mom in law actually had the exact machine from that POD and seemed to enjoy it despite it not being the quietest in the world.. I know that some present the argument that the "bullnose" style rack offers more space than having the silverware removed, but I myself don't see it. I get frustrated loading my grandparents' Kenmore Elite or the mother-in-law's new Maytag because of that rack style. Plates tend to want to roll around and bang when the rack is moved because they don't "lock" into place along the front edge like they do in the WPs, and I've found that extra space to only accommodate two or three extra bowls, which could be argued to have fit in the space where the silverware basket sits on the side of the rack anyway. The only complaint I've ever had with the basket in the door is that every once in a blue moon, a stray noodle or piece of lettuce/spinach that gets knocked off a dish will get wedged between the door and basket, but it happens so rarely with this new machine, I hardly think of it anymore. It actually happened more frequently in the PowerClean because the basket had a solid back.

Post# 886112 , Reply# 8 6/20/2016 at 11:32 (2,865 days old) by whitetub (Montreal, Canada)
Checkrate/Likes 1 Here's a link that shows the water action inside a Whirlpool dishwasher of that period. It is a powerful machine. CLICK HERE TO GO TO whitetub's LINK

Post# 886117 , Reply# 9 6/20/2016 at 12:10 (2,865 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod)
Checkrate/Likes Awesome Vid.