GE recalls 2.5 million dishwashers

[rainbow4321]

Source: Dallas Morning News

General Electric Co. is recalling 2.5 million dishwashers because of a wiring problem that could cause fires.

The recall, government regulators said Wednesday, includes dishwashers sold under the brands Eterna, GE, GE Profile, GE Monogram, Hotpoint, and Sears-Kenmore.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said consumers should stop using the devices immediately and contact the company for a free repair or a rebate towards a new dishwasher.

GE has received nearly 200 complaints of overheating, including 12 fires caused by the washers. The machines' wiring is susceptible to shorting out or overheating, the government said, if liquid rinse solution leak outs of dispensers.



Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/051707dnbusdishwasherrecall.9f7cd9.html

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Company's website is www.geappliances.com.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. where were they made?

[daleo]

2. Yeah, I wondered about that too. n/t

[daleo]

6. In their FAC (took a while to find it)

20. Where were these dishwashers manufactured?
GE Appliance Park, Louisville KY

[rocktivity]

11. My mother used to brag that she had FIVE automatic dishwashers

my four sisters and me.

:headbang:
rocknation

[AlCzervik]

3. direct link to recalled item here--- manufactured between 1997-2001

http://www.geappliances.com/products/recall/dw07/

[Inkyfuzzbottom]

4. No worries here...

we don't own a dishwasher. Hubby is my dishwasher!

[jedicord]

5. Does he light you on fire?

:evilgrin:

[Inkyfuzzbottom]

10. Yes he does!

There's nothing sexier than a man who is not afraid to do housework!

[kimmerspixelated]

7. Lucky lady!

I'm glad to hear that someone has trained their man!

[Uben]

8. Units made from 1999 to 2001

I bought a GE Profile last year, but it is not on the list. I got a good un!

[Fridays Child]

9. They recalled an earlier series, too. The heated drying switches were faulty.

They were found to short out, on occasion, and cause fires. We had one of those models, and all we got was $75 toward a new dishwasher, made by GE. If we had gone with a different brand, we would have gotten only $25, I think.

Buncha BS, if you ask me. They should have paid for the whole thing.

[Bitwit1234]

12. What is wrong with this site