Have ours for 5 yrs. Runs like a champ no issues.

Very quiet and has been no issues after 8 years.

Try to avoid the "Price Point" machines at box stores, they are inferior. Still better than anything else in the store, but not as good as one you'd buy from an appliance store.

Also, Thermador is Bosch's upper end, so look at those too.

Bosch is great!
We always have ours on the 'power scrub' setting because our lower end model with buttons in the front doesn't do the 'sanitize' unless it's at that setting. With sanitize it dries the dishes OK.
As others noted, very quiet.

With AZ water, I take out the fine screen on the bottom and give it a CLR or Limeaway cleaning about every year or so.
Absolutely no problems with it in years.

I have had one in m kitchen for over 15 years no problems at all.
I also have one (2/3 size) in my motorhome about 3 years old, no problems. This one lives in the worst possible environment (below zero to 100+ degrees, bouncing down the road)

We had one for 10 years and loved it, super quiet and cleaned great. Bosch earned our loyalty, unlike our other appliances.

I had one fail right after the warranty. I tried to fix it myself and subsequently finished it off. Luckily I wasn't killed.

As I believe most appliances like this are hit or miss, I actually just ought another so the plumbing locations matched up. lol

One thing to keep in mind with a Bosch is the undercounter height. Bosch requires a FULL 34". Most other mfg can get by with as little as 33.25". We installed LVT flooring over the original ugly ceramic tile, and a Bosch would not fit. Ended up with a Maytag.

Timely post OP, we are looking at a new 500 series as well.

Being my wife is E. European she wants the Bosch...sounds like most are pretty happy with them.

Our house came with one (10 years old at that point). I wasn't impressed with its cleaning ability at the time, but it may have been more of the detergent we were using. Or maybe maybe it needed to be loaded a certain way that made more sense to the German engineer than what we were doing. But I wouldn't write them off.

We got rid of it after it caught fire (well, the control board under the controls let the smoke out and melted - but no actual flame. Still filled the house with smoke and scared the crap out of us at 1am). Turns out that there was a recall out for it that we were unaware of.

Replaced it with a Kenmore Elite - which cleans well enough - but overall has given us more problems than the Bosch. Had the seals at the bottom (water pump / drain unit) go out and lightly flood our kitchen - which was fixed under warranty. My biggest complaint is that all of the plastic components that make up the drawers are brittle and we just keep finding the pieces in the bottom of the unit.

When this one goes out (or I just tire of it) I'll likely replace it with a Bosch, Samsung, or LG. I am done with Kenmore that is for sure.

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but it may have been more of the detergent we were using

Bosch suggests using Finish powerball tablet things. Not sure if it is a marketing thing but that is all we have ever used in it and they work very well.
Also as I said earlier Jet dry liquid is a must. You can instantly tell when the resiviod is empty.

Our Bosch is quiet, it's hard to tell when it's running other than start up.

The only time we've noticed any oder is when we don't run it for a while and have loaded dirty dishes.

We run Cascade with the jel packs built in with the Jet dry, works great must be about 8 years old now...

My mom is on her 2nd one in her house, first one lasted about 10 years, started getting pretty loud. She bought a Bosch for her rental property too, which I think is WAY overkill but it's her money.

Bosch was our first "high end" dishwasher back in the late 90s. Still made in Germany, it was great. I believe they're now made in South Carolina. After we moved to another house, we got a Miele dishwasher, IMO a better washer. We miss the Miele.

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They stink, literally. No real heat cycle to dry, so they can start to smell after a while.

We had one installed when we renovated our kitchen. Washes well, quiet, but we also weren't satisfied with drying. Our's has a high dry setting, which you have to select each time. If that were the standard dry setting it'd be ok.

My wife and I know two couples that bought Bosch dishwashers. Neither family was particularly pleased with them. Both dishwashers died an early death. (Which was perhaps fortunate.)

Ours has been great for 5 years. The major difference between Bosch and some of the others, is in how the water is heated, and how the drying happens.
These do not have the exposed heating element in the tub. Instead having a water heater in the circulation system. This prevents the occurrence of melted plastic items that have dropped into the tub.
Also, drying occurs via evaporation and subsequent condensation on the cooler walls. This results in a collection of water in the filter area.

In my view, the condensation drying is better than the fan forced method, by not circulating air off the floor over clean dishes.