Miele G 7114 SC AutoDos

Not as good as my last Miele but passable – When my amazing Miele G 2270 SCVI died at about 18 years of age, I was devastated. That was the absolute ultimate dishwasher. We hunted around and this close to Christmas couldn't really afford to go the top of the range, so we bought one of these instead. It was very easy to install, and get up and running. Forget the app.. we started with that and just couldn't get that working, but seriously it is a dishwasher... what on earth purpose does an app serve except maybe to feed usage statistics and location back to Miele?? It was really difficult try to get the app working, and we are very tech literate people, so I have no idea how someone who wasn't so tech savvy would cope. We gave up on that.

The dishwasher is no where near the size of our previous one, despite being 5mm taller in height (requiring cabinet modifications. It simply does not fit our dishes in as well as the previous one did. Can't fit in as many glasses, can't fit in as many plates. This is a huge disappointment for us.

It is also clearly not as well made or put together as our previous Miele. It has a tacky plasticky feel about it, and the . A second big disappointment, and this is a major problem for me.

It came with a sample of the AutoDos, so we were keen to give this a go, assuming that Miele knows the best detergent to use in their machines for the best result.

The program is super super quiet, insulating out even the sound of the water swishing around.

The cleaning ability is perfect. We do not pre-rinse our dishes, just scrape off any obvious food, and all of the dishes and the dishwasher itself came out spotless and perfectly dry.

The auto open feature left us a bit stuck for a bit. We couldn't figure out how to open it beyond the small crack, and didn't want to force it. A quick google search revealed that several others had had this same problem and the answer was simply "use more force" Not a very "Miele" solution.

Unfortunately we discovered that the detergent from the AutoDos was not rinsing off completely on the Automatic cycle. This left an absolutely unbearable taste on the dishes and in the glasses completely tainting and destroying several meals and drinks.

We contacted Miele service - who were really less than helpful. They were unable to advise whether or not the Auto part of the AutoDos could be adjusted. The only thing they could offer us was a field visit by a technician. Great, so now we had been without a dishwasher for weeks, due to the old one breaking and the new one fouling up the crockery, cutlery and glassware and now we had another week of waiting.

The technician when he did arrive was excellent as usual. Have never had any complaints about their service techs. He advised us that he was able to adjust the setting to either High, Normal or Low. It was on Normal. So he adjusted it to the Low setting and since then all of the detergent seems to be washing off through the cycle and the quality of the clean is still excellent. (It does seem kind of ridiculous to me that this setting cannot be adjusted by the owner) I will however give our previous powder a go once the AutoDos runs out. At $18.40/pack plus $8.00 shipping it makes it a ridiculously expensive dishwasher powder for only 20 washes.

On the plus side... We have Riedel glassware and it cleans these glasses perfectly. We have glass milk bottles and it cleans these perfectly too (bottles are often challenging for dishwashers).

So the cleaning is fantastic now that we have sorted out the AutoDos. But the build quality is disappointing, and I clearly have purchased one that is too small, which is the sales guy's fault, not Miele's. He just didn't know his products, but nonetheless disappointing for us as it doesn't suit us.

We've had it just over three weeks now. I will write an update in 12 months if I still have it.