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Thread Number: 97664
/ Tag: Vintage Dishwashers
1991 Whirlpool dishwasher Quitewash Plus.. |
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Post# 1225867 3/4/2025 at 20:51 by volsboy1  (East Tenn Smoky mountains ) |
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I found me a free Whirlpool dishwasher and I was wondering are there different types of power clean or is the quite wash plus it's own model? This dishwasher I am getting 1990 has that tower that shoots that jet of water to the top wash arm. The power clean I had came with a food dispose option and it had a great filter system. That power clean was unstoppable I dumped everything in that dishwasher I used it as my garbage disposer and the dishes came out spotless.
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Post# 1225884 , Reply# 2 3/4/2025 at 22:42 by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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Post# 1225905 , Reply# 4 3/5/2025 at 05:32 by Chetlaham (United States) |
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 Dura wash sucks with un-rinsed dishes, the early models did not even have a soil settlers, though latter version that did didn't do much to help either.
Powercleans on the other hand, both the original versions and the latter revised versions were the best dish-washing mechanism ever made by anyone by far.
I wish Whirlpool never bothered with Dura wash and just made their full lineup from BOL to TOL power cleans. I'd have given anything for a TOL Power Clean in the kitchen and a single knob BOL Power Clean sitting in a box. If Power Clean was still made today I'd have one as a daily driver despite the standard tub size. Nothing has ever been made like the Power Clean and I doubt anything will ever come close. | ||
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Post# 1225914 , Reply# 5 3/5/2025 at 07:42 by Combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Basic whirlpool Dura wash dishwashers
We’re a hell of a lot better dishwasher than GE‘s basic builder models not only did they have a sturdy motor that almost never gave problems, but they had a better grinder as well. We still have a lot of customers with them. I even sold one a while ago and took out a fancy KitchenAid for a customer with a rental property where the tenants were always tearing up the KitchenAid , the dura wash is now worked for two years without problems.
Yes, I wish whirlpool wasn’t forced to compete in that market and come out with that machine, with the center tower just like the GE’s it never cleaned as well in the corners if you overloaded it in the bottom, but it was a hell of a good dishwasher That didn’t rust out and leak at the trip shaft and pump like the GE. Do we still have a lot of customers with Dura washers some and very high-end properties so I’m thinking of another one in an expensive Georgetown house the lady living there is from Germany and she just loves the dishwasher. She has said many times to me that it’s so no nonsense and it works so well and she usually had Miele or Bosch in Germany. The landlady offered to replace the dishwasher along with the basic whirlpool, gas stove and she said they’re wonderful. Leave them there. She’s been there three years now. John L | ||
| Post# 1225917 , Reply# 6 3/5/2025 at 08:02 by Magic_Clean (Florida) | ||
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Durawash as stated; was primarily developed as a "basic builder model". -LP | ||
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Post# 1225918 , Reply# 7 3/5/2025 at 08:03 by Chetlaham (United States) |
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Dura wash has no grinder. Zilch, Nada. In fact the impeller disc assembly part number 3369012 has no grate, chopper, or anything to do with food particles. If you mean the impellar itself, its worth atmospheric air in terms of maceration. The dishwasher relies entirely on the sump grate to prevent anything larger than a bread crumb from entering the pump. Food bits pile up on top of the grate and eventually clog if not removed. Stinky, awful. The soil settler might remove one or two stray coffee ground that just happen to migrate there, the rest is recirculated unhindered.
Dura wash was more durable and reliable than GE in some rehards between 1994 and 2006 yes- however wash performance was always much worse than GE. GE had actual maceration and did an excellent job of cleaning in the corners of the top rack even with the bottom rack full. In 2001 GE switched to a solid metal hard food maceration blade that did not break off and in 2007 GE added a fine filter to their BOL models which made a night and day difference in cleaning and soil removal running circles around durawash. Dura wash also can't be repaired, more often that not the impeller rusts to the motor shaft making removal impossible.
Dishwashers are all just about the same with prerinsed dishes. Skip the sink and that all changes. | ||
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Post# 1226225 , Reply# 9 3/10/2025 at 07:14 by Chetlaham (United States) |
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| Post# 1226233 , Reply# 10 3/10/2025 at 10:05 by johnb300m (Chicago) | ||
GE macerator 
Yes GE dishwashers had a “soft food disposer” which was a little spring wire that spun in front of a metal screen that had HUGE holes.
The metal screen was then changed to plastic. And this is the style GE used up till the early 2000s when they came out with actual metal blades in front of a plastic screen. They then called it a “hard food disposer.”
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Post# 1226366 , Reply# 12 3/11/2025 at 22:55 by GELaundry4ever (Nacogdoches, TX, USA (considering moving to Temple, Texas)) |
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power clean I believe it's a power clean model. They didn't come out with the top of the line point voyager until 2001 or so. | ||
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Post# 1226370 , Reply# 14 3/11/2025 at 23:24 by GELaundry4ever (Nacogdoches, TX, USA (considering moving to Temple, Texas)) |
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to agiflow I too am curious about today's Whirlpool/Maytag dishwashers myself. This is especially true for Whirlpool. | ||
| Post# 1226424 , Reply# 16 3/12/2025 at 20:28 by maytaga806 (Howell, Michigan) | ||
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My best friend has this dishwasher in the photos I just posted and she absolutely loves it. Yea you have to clean the filter but that’s not a problem, it’s very good performing dishwasher although the top rack could be better cause it’s missing that roof jet. | ||
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Post# 1226449 , Reply# 19 3/13/2025 at 09:53 by GELaundry4ever (Nacogdoches, TX, USA (considering moving to Temple, Texas)) |
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dishwasher I wish my dishwasher had a food chopper and heating element. That said, it gets the dishes clean. | ||
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Post# 1226452 , Reply# 20 3/13/2025 at 10:55 by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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 Jerome, your Kenmore/Bosch does have a heating element, integral to the recirculation pump. You're not aware of it? Bosch calls it a "heat pump." SearsPartsDirect - Dishwasher Circulation Pump with Heater PartsDr - Bosch Heat Pump | ||
| Post# 1226461 , Reply# 21 3/13/2025 at 14:41 by maytaga806 (Howell, Michigan) | ||
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He’s not aware of much | ||
| Post# 1226516 , Reply# 22 3/14/2025 at 12:49 by johnb300m (Chicago) | ||
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Kudos to Whirlpool for keeping their portables on the US based Global Wash platform and not the Chinese unit everyone else has moved to.
GE’s hard food disposer is FAKE. It’s been fake since the Triton XL era because they put the chopper blade behind all the filter screens. It does nothing but give them marketing material. | ||
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Post# 1226519 , Reply# 23 3/14/2025 at 13:37 by GELaundry4ever (Nacogdoches, TX, USA (considering moving to Temple, Texas)) |
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heat pump No, I did not know Bosch calls theirs a heat pump. I thought it had to have a compressor to qualify as such. At least that's what comes to mind when I think of heat pumps. As for Whirlpool, I'm curious about wash system all of them moved to, not just the upper end models. | ||
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Post# 1226520 , Reply# 24 3/14/2025 at 13:42 by GELaundry4ever (Nacogdoches, TX, USA (considering moving to Temple, Texas)) |
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global wash I thought Whirlpool discontinued their global wash. | ||
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Post# 1226526 , Reply# 25 3/14/2025 at 14:27 by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Post# 1226531 , Reply# 27 3/14/2025 at 17:28 by GELaundry4ever (Nacogdoches, TX, USA (considering moving to Temple, Texas)) |
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whirlpool and bosch So if Bosch buys Whirlpool, What are the chances they'll behave like Bosch? | ||
| Post# 1226532 , Reply# 28 3/14/2025 at 17:29 by maytaga806 (Howell, Michigan) | ||
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I don’t know where you get this shit from Jerome. | ||
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Post# 1226927 , Reply# 29 3/20/2025 at 23:49 by GELaundry4ever (Nacogdoches, TX, USA (considering moving to Temple, Texas)) |
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Bosch and Whirlpool I'm asking a question about Bosch and whirlpool. | ||
| Post# 1226929 , Reply# 30 3/21/2025 at 01:21 by johnb300m (Chicago) | ||
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