Bosch vs GE dishwashers: an incident-report comparison

What this Bosch vs GE comparison is based on#

This page sets two report corpora beside each other. The first is the CPSC SaferProducts incident reports filed against Bosch dishwashers between 2011 and 2026, of which there are 303. The second is the same class of report filed against GE dishwashers over the same window, of which there are 433. Neither is drawn from sales figures, warranty claims or a service caseload: they are what owners, agencies and manufacturers submitted to the federal database, counted by which component each report names.

What a share of these reports counts#

Every percentage below is a share of one brand's own report count. It is never a share of dishwashers sold, shipped or installed, because no public source states how many of either brand are in service. That is also why the two totals — 303 and 433 — are not themselves a comparison: a report count moves with how many machines are in the field and how willing their owners are to file, and this corpus records neither. What does survive the difference in size is the internal split of each corpus, the ranking of which components its own reports concentrate on, and that is the only thing read across the two brands here.

Where the two profiles diverge#

The two splits do not resemble each other. Reports on Bosch dishwashers gather around the wiring or power cord, named in 29% of the 303 Bosch reports, with the control board close behind at 28%. Reports on GE dishwashers gather somewhere else: the heating element leads at 33% of the 433 GE reports, and the control board sits second at 17%.

The heating element is the widest separation between the two corpora, 32 percentage points, and the wiring or power cord is its mirror image, 24 points in the opposite direction. Where the corpora agree, they agree tightly — the motor is named in 2% of the Bosch reports and 2% of the GE reports.

Treated as repair planning rather than as a verdict, that pattern is worth something concrete. A Bosch [dishwasher](/blog/repair-or-replace-dishwasher) that arrives dead at the panel or with a damaged cord lands in the region where most Bosch reports already sit; a GE dishwasher that has stopped heating lands where most GE reports already sit. Neither observation says which machine is likelier to reach that state, because nothing counted here includes the machines that never produced a report at all.

Bosch vs GE dishwashers: what the reports mention#

Both columns are shares of their own corpus, and the corpora differ in size. Bosch: CPSC SaferProducts incident reports for Bosch dishwashers, 2011-2026, n=303. GE: CPSC SaferProducts incident reports for GE dishwashers, 2011-2026, n=433. A difference no larger than one report on either side is marked "within one-report noise".

About the corpus: these are CPSC SaferProducts reports — incidents someone chose to report, not units sold — so the shares on this page are shares of the reports and never a failure rate. The corpus is weighted toward safety events: 12,007 of its 20,581 records (58%) are fire, smoke, burn or melt reports, which over-represents the components that burn and under-represents the ones that merely stop working.

Bosch dishwashers: the reported component split#

Bosch dishwashers — every share in this table is a share of: CPSC SaferProducts incident reports for Bosch dishwashers, 2011-2026, n=303.

Shares of reports, not failure rates — see the corpus note above.

GE dishwashers: the reported component split#

GE dishwashers — every share in this table is a share of: CPSC SaferProducts incident reports for GE dishwashers, 2011-2026, n=433.

Shares of reports, not failure rates — see the corpus note above.

How to use these numbers#

What this comparison can settle: which components the reported incidents of each brand actually concentrate on, for this appliance. What it cannot settle: which brand fails more often. That would need units sold, and no public source states it. Use the component split to plan for the repair each brand is most reported for, not to rank the two.