I'm editing this review to downgrade it to one star. The dishwasher has been in use for less than a month, maybe a dozen washes in total, and it's sprung a leak from somewhere underneath the machine. It's showing an 'E4' error, which translates (believe it or not) as "there is a leak". I had already realised that when it flooded my kitchen floor. :(
I called the manufacturer, and was met with what I can only term 'polite disinterest'. I was advised that they didn't do repairs in Maine, and my choices were either they would send me another unit, but I would have to cannibalise the parts from the faulty machine and then the disposal of the old machine was *my* problem, or else I could return it to Amazon. Not surprisingly, I chose the second course of action. I have nothing but praise for Amazon in how *they* have handled this, but folks, if you're looking to buy a dishwasher, don't buy this one! I've left my previous review below (it was two stars at that point).
*PREVIOUS REVIEW*
I think this dishwasher suffers from at least two serious design flaws, plus there's one other warning which no doubt applies to other dishwashers as well. The two design flaws first, firstly the way the hoses and electrical lead flap loose is an idiocy. As has been pointed out, your choice is either to let the water remaining in the hoses dribble all over the floor, or else you keep your floor dry at the expense of the hoses sticking out from the back of the machine. This people should take a lesson from GE, and no doubt other manufacturers. Let the hoses go back INSIDE the back panel, and this problem is removed, you just hold the plug and hoses so the end is uppermost.
The second design flaw is the enormous excess of prongs for holding plates. There are FAR too many of them! Yes, you can fit enough plates in there for a large number of people, but they just better be sharing one dish/bowl between eight people! I find it difficult to fill the dishwasher to capacity, because I just don't USE that many plates compared to dishes and bowls. Once again, my old GE machine had a far more sensible layout.
The final thing that I need to note is a REALLY IMPORTANT point for those of you who live out in the wilds, as I do. UPS and FedEx get up and down this road without a problem, but this dishwasher came via a 3rd party delivery firm, and they came in a large truck - too heavy to be permitted to come down the road! If it wasn't for the fact that there's a former diner, with a large car park, at the top of the road, and also that I have a friend with a pickup truck who was willing to drop everything and come out at ZERO notice, I would have had no option but to refuse delivery. As it was, we had to transfer the dishwasher into his truck and then do the rest of the delivery ourselves. Not the driver's fault, as he said his truck had a GPS beacon on it, and that it was a sacking offence if he ignored the posted weight limit. The limit had been put up in the last week, as the spring melt began.