Frigidaire vs GE Monogram dishwashers: an incident-report comparison

What this Frigidaire vs GE Monogram comparison is based on#

These are the two smallest [dishwasher](/blog/repair-or-replace-dishwasher) corpora in this comparison set, and that fact governs everything that can honestly be said here. Frigidaire contributes 103 CPSC SaferProducts incident reports filed between 2011 and 2026. GE Monogram contributes 38, filed between 2011 and 2021. Neither column is deep, one of them stops five years earlier than the other, and both facts belong in front of the table rather than in a footnote.

What that means in practice is arithmetic. On the Frigidaire side a single filing is worth about one point. On the Monogram side a single filing is worth roughly three. Any row in the Monogram column that reads 3% is one report, and the page marks such rows as one-report noise for that reason.

The rows that survive the sample size#

Two rows on each side rest on enough filings to be worth reading. For Frigidaire those are the heating element at 45%, which is 46 reports, and the control board at 19%, which is 20. For Monogram they are the heating element at 29%, which is 11 reports, and the control board at 26%, which is 10. Everything else in either column is a handful of filings or fewer.

Restricted to those four numbers, the comparison says two things. Both corpora put the heating element first, which is agreement on rank. And the gap between first and second place is far wider for Frigidaire — 45% against 19% — than for Monogram, where 29% and 26% are close enough that their order could reverse on a couple of additional filings.

Where the two columns diverge#

The heating element separates them by 16 points and the control board by 7 in the other direction. Both gaps are larger than the Monogram noise floor, so both are readable, but neither is dramatic by the standards of this set — this is a comparison of two corpora that broadly resemble each other, not one that pulls them apart.

The remaining rows resolve into nothing. Wiring or the power cord is 4% for Frigidaire against a single Monogram filing at 3%. The motor is 1% against 3%, again one report on each side. Frigidaire's drain pump or hose, water valve or line, and thermostat or sensor rows have no Monogram counterpart at all, which is a statement about a 38-report corpus rather than about the machine.

What is safe to take from a page like this#

The safe reading is a rank and a caution. Heat leads the filed record for both brands, the board follows for both, and the Monogram column is too shallow to support a claim about anything else. The Monogram window closing in 2021 caps the comparison further: a component that only began drawing filings after that year could appear on one side and could not appear on the other. Nothing here converts into how often either machine fails, because filings, not machines, are what was counted.

Frigidaire vs GE Monogram dishwashers: what the reports mention#

Both columns are shares of their own corpus, and the corpora differ in size. Frigidaire: CPSC SaferProducts incident reports for Frigidaire dishwashers, 2011-2026, n=103. 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.

Frigidaire dishwashers: the reported component split#

Frigidaire dishwashers — every share in this table is a share of: CPSC SaferProducts incident reports for Frigidaire dishwashers, 2011-2026, n=103.

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.