Bosch vs GE Monogram dishwashers: an incident-report comparison

What this Bosch vs GE Monogram comparison is based on#

One of these two corpora is small enough that its size has to be the first thing said about it. GE Monogram dishwashers account for 38 CPSC SaferProducts incident reports, filed between 2011 and 2021. Bosch dishwashers account for 303, filed between 2011 and 2026. Both columns below are shares of their own corpus, so every Monogram percentage is a share of 38 filings and shifts by roughly three points each time one more report joins it.

That arithmetic sets the reading rule for the whole page. In the Monogram column only the two leading rows rest on enough filings to carry any weight: the heating element at 29%, which is 11 reports, and the control board at 26%, which is 10. Everything underneath them is a single report wearing a percentage, and the table marks those rows as one-report noise for exactly that reason.

What the Monogram window stops short of#

The second thing that corpus size implies is its end date. The Monogram window closes in 2021, five years earlier than the Bosch one, so the two collections are not observing the same span of model years or the same span of filing behaviour. A component that only began drawing reports after 2021 could appear in the Bosch column and could not appear in the Monogram one at all. That is a limit of the evidence, not a finding about either brand, and it applies to every row on the page equally.

Where the two profiles diverge#

With those caveats carried, the divergence is real and it sits in one place: heat. The heating element is named in 29% of the Monogram reports and in 1% of the Bosch ones, a 28-point separation that is the widest on the page. Wiring or the power cord runs the other way by 26 points — 29% of the 303 Bosch reports name it, against a single Monogram filing. Two components, two opposite directions, and between them almost the whole of the measured distance.

Where they agree#

The control board is the row where the two corpora nearly coincide: 28% of the Bosch reports and 26% of the Monogram ones, two points apart and inside the noise band the table marks. That agreement is arguably the more useful half of this comparison. Whatever else separates a mass-market Bosch from a Monogram built for a different price bracket, the electronics draw a comparable share of each corpus's attention, and on the Monogram side they are one of only two rows with more than a handful of filings behind them.

For repair planning that resolves into two expectations rather than a verdict. A control-board complaint is the modal report for either machine. A heat-related complaint is far more characteristic of what has been filed about Monogram than of what has been filed about Bosch, where the same component is named in 1% of a much larger corpus. How often either machine actually arrives at those states is not in this data and cannot be derived from it.

Bosch vs GE Monogram 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 Monogram: CPSC SaferProducts incident reports for GE Monogram dishwashers, 2011-2021, n=38. 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 Monogram dishwashers: the reported component split#

GE Monogram dishwashers — every share in this table is a share of: CPSC SaferProducts incident reports for GE Monogram dishwashers, 2011-2021, n=38.

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.