How Much?! Dishwasher Parts micky take!

[blueg33]

I need a new upper and a new lower basket for my NEFF dishwasher. £126 and £112 respectively, plus delivery. If I wanted a replacement plastic funnel for the salt contain its £10 and a basket wheel is £8.50, my dishwasher has 16 wheels!

I have looked all over the internet and all the new parts are the same price give or take a pound.

Dishwasher - the sum of the parts is much bigger that the whole!

[Sixpackpert]

blueg33 said:

Dishwasher - the sum of the parts is much bigger that the whole!

As is for most things really.

[98elise]

1. Buy NEFF dishwasher.
2. Strip it for parts.
3. Sell parts on e-bay.
4. Retire.



Its the same for all white goods. My dishwasher blew the pump motor, and the control board. The parts alone made it uneconomical to repair.

[shakotan]

Standard 'rule of thumb' in the last 3 places of work has been 'Purchase Valuex3+VAT+P&P" to calculate spares sale price.

[Kapenta]

Look here for parts...I have bought spares for my dishwasher from them before.

http://www.espares.co.uk/search/dishwashers/neff/p...

[blueg33]

Kapenta said:

Look here for parts...I have bought spares for my dishwasher from them before.

http://www.espares.co.uk/search/dishwashers/neff/p...

I did. Its them who are £126 for the upper basket!

Here have all my money for a bit of bent wire coated in plastic

[podwin]

The drying bit stopped drying in our washer dryer.

Quote to repair was £460!!

So I bought a new, separate dryer for much less than half that.

I had the same for a fan on a dehumidifier, it was around £150!

The parts for these kind of things really is ridiculous.

[Deva Link]

shakotan said:

Standard 'rule of thumb' in the last 3 places of work has been 'Purchase Valuex3+VAT+P&P" to calculate spares sale price.

What kind of business though? And who is purchasing the parts, and where from?

The trays the OP is referring to would cost next to nothing out of the factory (which is probably a supplier to NEFF, not NEFF themselves). Let's go mad and say they cost a fiver. But they'll have passed through several people's hands, each one adding their own profit, before getting to spare-parts seller the OP was in touch with.

[Dr Interceptor]

Parts supply is always interesting, and it does depend how many hands they go through before they get to you.

Im in the Swimming pool Industry, and taking an American product we sell as an example.

Retail price in the US is $210.00 + local taxes. It is imported into the UK by one company, who then sells it to a distributor. By the time we buy it from the distributor, our cost on that item is £490.00 + VAT. We then sell it for £7-800 + VAT. For something which you can buy in the states for £150.

Likewise, we are the sole distributor in the UK for a German product. Our spare parts price list formula is German Price in Euro, /1.15 for Sterling, then multiplied by 3 for our Net Retail price.

[blueg33]

A whole new NEFF Intergrated dishwasher is only £600 delivered!

[Rude-boy]

blueg33 said:

A whole new NEFF Intergrated dishwasher is only £600 delivered!

Then, as i must say i end up doing, buy a new one.

Shiney, shiney

[BlackZeD]

Dunno whats up with the baskets but could you get them stripped, repaired and then redipped
in Nylon etc.

[blueg33]

Rusted through in places where the plastic coating has failed. It is 12 years old, but in all other respects the dw works as new

[hidetheelephants]

blueg33 said:

Rusted through in places where the plastic coating has failed. It is 12 years old, but in all other respects the dw works as new

Take the baskets to a one-man-band marine fabricator and ask for a facsimile in Stainless Steel; you may be pleasantly surprised. Our local chap would turn out something suitable for half the price you quote.

[anonymous-user]

if you are going for a new one, there is a lot to be said in including this on the list of makes/models that you consider

http://www.iseappliances.co.uk/index.php/products/...

[blueg33]

hidetheelephants said:

Take the baskets to a one-man-band marine fabricator and ask for a facsimile in Stainless Steel; you may be pleasantly surprised. Our local chap would turn out something suitable for half the price you quote.

That is a good idea - not sure there are many marine fabricators in the Cotswolds!

[carreauchompeur]

hidetheelephants said:

Take the baskets to a one-man-band marine fabricator and ask for a facsimile in Stainless Steel; you may be pleasantly surprised. Our local chap would turn out something suitable for half the price you quote.

Really? Not doubting you, just surprised, it seems a really complex, fiddly mess of metal to me!

[Du1point8]

usually quite cheap but has no baskets at the moment:

http://shop.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/Dishwasher+Parts/Ne...

its got wheels.

[hairyben]

They run an effective cartel, don't understand why some cheeky chinese aren't making snides of the more common parts, the most common being the mesh filter present in every bosch group DW- about 10 pence worth of flimsy sieve like plastic that disintegrates after a few years but can only be bought as part of a £40 filter set comprising the mesh and several lumps of plastic that aren't necessary.

Loads of complaints about this part alone, if you had access to basic cheap manufacturing you could make a fair bit of money I reckon.

Although for the piss taking premiership i have a fan motor & loop element sitting in a box for a lacanche range- neff would charge you about £60 for one of these and about £20 for the element- lacanche want- are you sitting down- just shy of £500.

You can buy a bosch fanned oven for less than that. The motors evan stamped ebm (german motor maker to many big brands), if it was mine I'd go straight to them.

[jet_noise]

Dear b,

this sort of thing any good?

regards,
Jet