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Thread Number: 94794
/ Tag: Modern Dishwashers
Miele G7166 Dishwasher Update |
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| Post# 1194263 11/27/2023 at 23:10 by Labboy (SD, CA) | ||
I was able to run our new Miele G7166 dishwasher a few times this weekend with houseguests and cooking. This is my first Miele dishwasher and I’m as impressed as I am with our Miele washer and dryer.
Aside from setting the machine with the local water hardness, the only setting I’ve changed is to add a second interim rinse prior to the final rinse. There are a few quirks I had to learn about loading. But, once I got used to them I realized that you can fit a lot of dishes in these. AutoDos detergent dispensing is great. Everything comes out gleaming. Especially pots on the Pots cycle. It seems to have a lot of oxygen bleach because I have some coffee cups that have never looked whiter. AutoOpen is awesome. We run the dishwasher at night normally so when we come out in the morning the dishes are almost totally dry (water remaining is only a bit on the top of a plastic container or dog dish). The only thing I dislike about this machine is it often asks you to confirm selections with OK. It gets annoying. If you don’t acknowledge it, it will beep harshly at you. However, despite the minor issue above, it’s a great machine. Almost silent like all of the other appliances we just installed. Super happy. Bob | ||
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Post# 1194276 , Reply# 2 11/28/2023 at 07:05 by GELaundry4ever  (Nacogdoches, TX, USA) |
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dishwasher detergent What dishwasher detergent are you using? Have you tried Finish Ultimate? | ||
| Post# 1194281 , Reply# 3 11/28/2023 at 08:37 by Labboy (SD, CA) | ||
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Post# 1194283 , Reply# 5 11/28/2023 at 09:35 by GELaundry4ever (Nacogdoches, TX, USA) |
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dishwasher What I would do if possible, I would use both detergents alternately, as in back and forth and compare the results. | ||
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Post# 1194307 , Reply# 6 11/28/2023 at 17:59 by littlegreeny (Milwaukee, WI) |
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Very nice!
Congratulations on your new dishwasher! It's a beautiful machine! I hope it provides you with many years of trouble-free service.
I recently had a conversation with independent appliance repair guy with 30 years of experience and he proclaimed Miele makes the best dishwashers. He said they are the most reliable and last 20 years. Bosch is second best but they only last 10 years. Every other manufacturer has the same reliability and last only 5-7 years. I thought those were interesting statistics... | ||
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Post# 1194308 , Reply# 7 11/28/2023 at 18:19 by GELaundry4ever (Nacogdoches, TX, USA) |
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dishwasher sound I wish we could get a sound or video recording of this dishwasher running so we can get an idea of how it sounds. | ||
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Post# 1194320 , Reply# 8 11/28/2023 at 23:20 by fisherpaykel (BC Canada) |
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Looks great! Interesting there are separate china and crystal cycles, I wonder what the differences are? | ||
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Post# 1194323 , Reply# 9 11/29/2023 at 00:43 by appnut (TX) |
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Post# 1194351 , Reply# 10 11/29/2023 at 15:35 by GELaundry4ever (Nacogdoches, TX, USA) |
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cycles and pressures Which cycles have the lowest to the highest wash/rinse pressures? | ||
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Post# 1194387 , Reply# 11 11/29/2023 at 20:46 by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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New Miele dishwashers
Hi Bob, your new kitchen and dishwasher looked great. Miele makes very good dishwashers to be sure.
From our limited experience, they seem to be fairly reliable. If you do have problems with them, they can be quite expensive to fix but that’s true of a lot of things today. Reply number six while it’s true that the longevity of dishwashers is about the shortest of any major Appliance it’s kind of ridiculous to say that the popular US brands only last 5 to 7 years only about 25% of dishwashers are replaced within seven years at most, so they obviously last a lot longer than that on average. Most new dishwashers do a great job cleaning, and are quite quiet, I really like the capacity of the KitchenAid with true three rack design, and the similar May tags, they hold a lot more than most other dishwashers, especially the European designed ones which are smaller and width and depth and interior height . John | ||
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Post# 1194399 , Reply# 12 11/30/2023 at 06:47 by GELaundry4ever (Nacogdoches, TX, USA) |
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whirlpool So what do you think of the new whirlpool with 3rd rack and extra wash action? | ||
| Post# 1194523 , Reply# 13 12/1/2023 at 16:09 by Jerrod_Six (Eastern Pennsylvania, USA) | ||
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Bob I'm glad you like your new DW. Since you have a hidden control panel what procedure did you use to add the 2nd interim rinse to every run? | ||
| Post# 1194526 , Reply# 14 12/1/2023 at 16:21 by Jerrod_Six (Eastern Pennsylvania, USA) | ||
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Ignore my question Bob I just looked at your machine's user manual and the second rinse option is in the settings menu. For my model, you must enter the service menu to select the option. | ||
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Post# 1194550 , Reply# 15 12/1/2023 at 23:19 by GELaundry4ever (Nacogdoches, TX, USA) |
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options So what options can you toggle in the service mode? On my Kenmore, I press and hold normal, then start, and release both to enter options menu. I have the dry assist on at all times. | ||
| Post# 1194579 , Reply# 16 12/2/2023 at 15:24 by Labboy (SD, CA) | ||
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Options…
In the Settings menu, there are several different options:
Enable / Disable AutoDos (Automatic Detergent Dispensing) Change AutoDos dispense amount (less, standard or more detergent) Rinse Agent dispense amount Water Softener Hardness Setting Enable second interim rinse Enable “Extra Clean”. (Manual is vague about this and only that it increases time and temperature to improve cleaning performance) I only enabled the Second Interim Rinse and entered my local water hardness setting. Bob | ||
| Post# 1194655 , Reply# 18 12/3/2023 at 19:03 by Labboy (SD, CA) | ||
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Quick Intense Wash
I was cooking this morning and had a full load of dishes. I tried out the Quick Intense Wash. Wow! It was quiet but you could definitely hear the spray intensity increase relative to the other cycles. Water usage was quite a bit more than the other routine cycles.
Results were amazing. Absolutely flawless even though it was a full load and I didn’t do much more than light scraping. Almost dry when I opened the door. It was interesting because AutoOpen at the end of the cycle did not occur. I wonder if they figured that cycle would likely be used in a busy kitchen so that might be a nuisance. I’m sure there are people at Miele who consider that stuff. This is a super machine. Bob | ||
| Post# 1194678 , Reply# 20 12/3/2023 at 22:55 by Labboy (SD, CA) | ||
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| Post# 1194698 , Reply# 21 12/4/2023 at 09:46 by beehiveboy (Northamptonshire, England ) | ||
I sadly haven’t had the best of luck with my Miele dishwashers (or the fridge-freezer, the micro-combination and the washing machine for that matter…)
My first dishwasher was on its second repair at 4.5 years old when the Miele technician deemed it beyond economical repair. Its replacement is being repaired (hopefully) on Thursday, yet to find out if it too is deemed worth repairing. It’s somewhere between 5-6 years old, I forget exactly. | ||
| Post# 1194728 , Reply# 22 12/4/2023 at 15:23 by Jerrod_Six (Eastern Pennsylvania, USA) | ||
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Henene4 Can you elaborate on the pulsed interim rinse you talked about above? You mentioned a 10s algorithm. Do you mean it sprays for 10 seconds or it sprays every 10 seconds or what? | ||
| Post# 1195069 , Reply# 28 12/9/2023 at 18:26 by Labboy (SD, CA) | ||
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I’m not sure. The only drawback to the machine is the controls and display are on the top. So, I can’t see what phase of the cycle it is in. The display has symbols which allow you to tell if it’s an interim rinse. The app only says “Rinse” and “Final Rinse”.
No matter what cycle I run, even really soiled items come out spotless. The Power Disk detergent is amazing. I have bumped up the rinse aid dispense to 4 mL from the default of 3 mL. Other than that and enabling second interim rinse, everything else is at default. Bob | ||
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