I have a different model Bosch, its drainage is laid out differently, but your video prompted me to really look closely down there. Lo and behold, the access piece was out of position and a small clump of string and hair was snagged in the gap. It was just enough to hang up the pump every time it tried to start up. I cleaned it out, snapped the access piece fully into place and it's working like a charm. Thank you!
Thank you for your help. The little white plastic impeller cover had fallen off. I had no idea what it was until I watched your video. Replaced it and the dishwasher worked again! Thank you. That (so far) seems to have saved us calling out an engineer or even buying a new machine!!
Short story this worked for me. Here is the long story... I looked at various websites and most indicated an inlet valve problem which I replaced but nothing. Did not have any error codes even after running a diagnostic. I was then thinking it was a circulation pump motor issue which is about $400 new and the headache of doing it myself. Was this close to buying another dishwasher yesterday but then I stumbled upon this video. I let the water run after disengaging the hose leading to the tub as in the video. But there was no debris running out. Maybe it just needed to be open. So happy that my beloved model is up and running....fingers crossed.
This worked for me! Our 5 year old dishwasher left standing water. We saw this video and we ended up vacuuming both the pipes and pulled solid gunk that was blocking the pipes! Thank you so much for this! 👍
Thank you. My impeller was clear, but I found a dish chip in water return. I was able to clear it and can now hear water draining properly under the sink. You just save me a ton of money.
My problem nor my washer were exactly like yours, yet similar enough. This video led me to the right area and I ended up being able to drain the line and fix the problem. I hope all these positive comments boost this video to the place it deserves. Many thanks! Time to fix was under an hour and I'm sure this is a common problem.
Thank you Craig Smith, and all the people who post fixes like this with clear video and commentary! My blockage seemed to be between the washer and the sink, but I couldn't haven't gotten there and tested it without your help!
Thank you for the video! My Bosch has been nothing but a pain in my butt after about a year after purchasing it. I’ve pain a “specialty” plumber twice who just said it was the screen which I replaced 2 times and still had the same issue and error code. Thank GOD for you awesome folks who shared your experience and saved me hundreds of dollars❤️❤️❤️
This video was comprehensive and very well done. You absolutely saved me a technician visit. There was definitely a clog in the plastic piece next to the hose you pointed out in your video. I wouldn’t have even known where to look for the drain hose it had it not been for this video. Thank you again for the great work in recording this for our use.
The piece of plastic that covers the check valve needs to be in to create suction to drain. Found an olive pit jamming the impeller. Still wouldn't drain till I figured that out. Great vid.
Tried this and it worked perfectly - found a shard of glass in the pipe after pumping it out and used needle nose pliers to grab it out. Ran the dishwasher again and it finally drains. Thanks so much.
I've followed yours and another youtube video and could get the problem fixed. Though I could not find any in the drain pipe but near the impeller I found a small hardened plastic piece, probably broken from the pressure cooker handle. Kudos! and Thanks! Appreciate your time for making such a video
Thank you so much for this informative video. My dishwasher problem wasn't exactly this problem but this video helped me to find it. I just share my experience here. After doing what is explained in this video I removed the hose that is connected to the back of dishwasher and found out up to there is OK too. then I blow to that hose that is disconnected and found out it is clogged. The other side of the hose is connected to the sink drain pipe I disconnected that end too and cleaned the connection. Everything is working now.
Thank you for this posting, I had an intermittent problem my Bosch overflowing water on the floor which I couldn't find the reason. Seeing you popping the hose from the pump and finding the piece of glass encouraged me to try the same and behold a piece of a plate shot out into my bucked. Holding my breath but so far, it is looking good.
Thank you. I found a lemon seed and piece of chicken wish bone, very small but prevented the propeller from moving. My dish machine is 17 years old, I’m waiting for the new replacement to be delivered.
I think this is my next move - I checked the propeller the first time and it seemed slightly stuck till I got it to spin - it drained well through two cycles but the 3rd one I did this ol morning didn’t drain at the end of the cycle again. Thank you!
THANK you very much for the video! Don't forget to buy and replace the rubber seal that he showed. Although it looked OK - it might have shrunk already due to heat and years of use. I replaced mine - and now its like brand new again. Drains OK every time. The OEM rubber replacement part cost me less than $10 on eBay.
Deepest appreciation for this easy to understand instructional that saved me money and made me feel soo capable! Now I'm a capable woman with clean dishes!
Thanks Craig. I'd tried fishing about inside the machine but removing the drain hose inside the machine and pumping out, cleared the blockage - what ever it was ( I couldn't really see any largish bits of stuff). Your suggestion worked where other efforts failed.
Great Video! I too found a piece of glass, but it had jammed the little pump impeller from turning under the cover that you described which sits under the filter screen. I only had to turn the impeller backwards to dislodge the glass and pull it out with tweezers. Up and running now.
Firstly thanks for this video. It let me fix mine without having to remove the unit. What I did: 1. Set it on a cleaning cycle as per normal. 2. When it fails to drain, switch off the washer but do not reset. 3. Do NOT drain the water manually. You want to remove the screw and pull up the housing that covers the impeller. 4. Manually turn the impeller with your hand. I turned it only enough to free the impeller 5. Put back the housing and screw in 6. Switch on the washer. It should continue the cycle from where it was - i.e. when it was trying to drain the water. In my case it managed to pump out the blockage. I'd try that approach first, and if that fails, remove and do what's in the video.
IMPORTANT! The first thing you should do is try a hard start after you clean the filter. Press the start button for 5 seconds and you will hear the dishwasher drain. Bosch SilencePlus50 DBA. This fixed all my problems.
Were bailing water right now sir, but yours was the best video I've seen. Thank you, I hope ours is a piece of something in the tube as well. Mary Ellen
This video was just the push in the right direction to get my DW fixed. Turned out that the breather valve and line were both fouled. Thanks for posting this!
Thank you so much for this video! I was able to undo the drain hose and run a rinse cycle and as the water drained out popped a piece of glass! My dishwasher is running again!
Hey. Thanks. Your video helped me out. All I had to do was go as far as getting to the flap. It turns out a broken piece of chopstick was jamming the impeller blades. A was worried the motor failed. Turned into an easy fix.
Thank you for this video, Chicken bone some how made it into the area beside the check valve. Once rmoved works perfectly again. Obly thing i would have added is that there is a screw that needs to be removed to get the plastic cover above the check valve out
Thanks this was helpful and I will add a comment that may help someone else. I had good flow from the hose shown here but my blockage was from the hose from the machine to the sink drain. There was gunk stuck right at the fitting where mine narrowed down at the drain pipe connection so that it wasnt fully draining. Hope this helps
Thanks for a great video, very helpful. It would be good to have seen how you removed the dishwasher from under the counter, but hopefully I'll find another video to show how this is done.
Thank you for the excellent video. I have had a similar problem but with a pistachio shell. Beginning to think the filter on the inside of the tub is easily bypassed by debris. Bad design?
Many thanks - all fixed. (My wife watched a technician do the same a few years ago - at great cost - but could never remember enough to allow me to do the same! Situation normal: man blames wife for his domestic failings...)
Mine doesn’t have the release trigger to activate the pump... I just hooked the shop vac up and shlurped all the water out along with som serious food boogers. Wife decided that the 9 yr old could load the dishwasher without supervision. Not good. Nothing scraped into the trash hence the boogers and the fibrous wet wipe chunks that the grinder didn’t get 100% shredded. Lesson learned. Yes I did make Mom empty the shop vac and clean the floor cause once I found out what the real cause was, I stopped being careful.
Removing the tube as instructed didn't work for me. But using the red "lever" to turn on and off the drain pump several times appears to have removed the drain pipe blockage between the dishwasher and the sink drain. Now the only question is: whose turn is it to load the dishwasher? Thanks for posting the video.
Hello, can we shroud naked dishwashers in a tarp or plastic to keep it dry just in case water was to leak in from an - often wet - benchtop above? Thank you. 🙏🏼🤪👍🏼
I don't know, I'm not aware of any exposed electrical components I think I would be more worried about the insulation around the dishwasher developing mildew.
Important - put the white impeller cover back on when re-testing; our dishwasher repair man tells us that the dishwasher doesn't drain unless that cover is on.
This is where the problem was for me..... the drain pipe underground my Sink was full of broken glass and plastic. I suggest you undo the plastic hose connected to the pipe and have that cleaned!
Interesting stuff, but sadly there doesn't seem to be any way in to these parts of the machine. I can take the torq screws out of the side panel but its still firmly fixed. Seems to be folded under the top & no screws seen to take that off. Have to shell for the engineer to visit: BAH!
Mine doesn't spin or do anything, I hear the power buzz / Humm but water flows only out when putting hose down. Doesn't have power to push it up. Anything else I could do?
I did the same thing but now the cycle is not working i was not able to get the water going the dishwasher starts and make the usual noise , but nothing happens no water . please what am i doing wrong here?
my samsung dishwasher goes thru the complete cycle find but then fills with water several hours after it was dry inside. if i just run the drain function it drains fine. i cant find a leak. the drain hose high loops looks fine its around 18 inches off the ground under t he sink and i klnow it isnt pinched. any ideas?>
While it works for many people who have similar problems, handing a running dishwasher is, to me, a real hazard for electrical accidents and even damaging the appliance. Must be very cautious.
I have a different model Bosch, its drainage is laid out differently, but your video prompted me to really look closely down there. Lo and behold, the access piece was out of position and a small clump of string and hair was snagged in the gap. It was just enough to hang up the pump every time it tried to start up. I cleaned it out, snapped the access piece fully into place and it's working like a charm. Thank you!
Thank you for your help. The little white plastic impeller cover had fallen off. I had no idea what it was until I watched your video. Replaced it and the dishwasher worked again! Thank you. That (so far) seems to have saved us calling out an engineer or even buying a new machine!!
Short story this worked for me. Here is the long story... I looked at various websites and most indicated an inlet valve problem which I replaced but nothing. Did not have any error codes even after running a diagnostic. I was then thinking it was a circulation pump motor issue which is about $400 new and the headache of doing it myself. Was this close to buying another dishwasher yesterday but then I stumbled upon this video. I let the water run after disengaging the hose leading to the tub as in the video. But there was no debris running out. Maybe it just needed to be open. So happy that my beloved model is up and running....fingers crossed.
This worked for me! Our 5 year old dishwasher left standing water. We saw this video and we ended up vacuuming both the pipes and pulled solid gunk that was blocking the pipes! Thank you so much for this! 👍
Thank you. My impeller was clear, but I found a dish chip in water return. I was able to clear it and can now hear water draining properly under the sink. You just save me a ton of money.
You're welcome, I'm glad I was able to help.
My problem nor my washer were exactly like yours, yet similar enough. This video led me to the right area and I ended up being able to drain the line and fix the problem. I hope all these positive comments boost this video to the place it deserves. Many thanks! Time to fix was under an hour and I'm sure this is a common problem.
Thank you Craig Smith, and all the people who post fixes like this with clear video and commentary! My blockage seemed to be between the washer and the sink, but I couldn't haven't gotten there and tested it without your help!
Thank you for the video! My Bosch has been nothing but a pain in my butt after about a year after purchasing it. I’ve pain a “specialty” plumber twice who just said it was the screen which I replaced 2 times and still had the same issue and error code. Thank GOD for you awesome folks who shared your experience and saved me hundreds of dollars❤️❤️❤️
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This video was comprehensive and very well done. You absolutely saved me a technician visit. There was definitely a clog in the plastic piece next to the hose you pointed out in your video. I wouldn’t have even known where to look for the drain hose it had it not been for this video. Thank you again for the great work in recording this for our use.
Finally a not draining vid that has usefull information instead of just clean the filters!! good show..
The piece of plastic that covers the check valve needs to be in to create suction to drain. Found an olive pit jamming the impeller. Still wouldn't drain till I figured that out. Great vid.
Tried this and it worked perfectly - found a shard of glass in the pipe after pumping it out and used needle nose pliers to grab it out. Ran the dishwasher again and it finally drains. Thanks so much.
I've followed yours and another youtube video and could get the problem fixed. Though I could not find any in the drain pipe but near the impeller I found a small hardened plastic piece, probably broken from the pressure cooker handle. Kudos! and Thanks! Appreciate your time for making such a video
Thank you so much for this informative video. My dishwasher problem wasn't exactly this problem but this video helped me to find it.
I just share my experience here. After doing what is explained in this video I removed the hose that is connected to the back of dishwasher and found out up to there is OK too. then I blow to that hose that is disconnected and found out it is clogged. The other side of the hose is connected to the sink drain pipe I disconnected that end too and cleaned the connection. Everything is working now.
Thank you for this posting, I had an intermittent problem my Bosch overflowing water on the floor which I couldn't find the reason. Seeing you popping the hose from the pump and finding the piece of glass encouraged me to try the same and behold a piece of a plate shot out into my bucked. Holding my breath but so far, it is looking good.
Thank you. I found a lemon seed and piece of chicken wish bone, very small but prevented the propeller from moving. My dish machine is 17 years old, I’m waiting for the new replacement to be delivered.
I think this is my next move - I checked the propeller the first time and it seemed slightly stuck till I got it to spin - it drained well through two cycles but the 3rd one I did this ol morning didn’t drain at the end of the cycle again. Thank you!
Thank you so much for posting this! We found a rubber band and didn't even have to take the dishwasher out, super quick simple fix. Thank you!
Thanks Craig. 2nd use of this video since it was a long time between fixes. The right video with the right info
THANK you very much for the video! Don't forget to buy and replace the rubber seal that he showed. Although it looked OK - it might have shrunk already due to heat and years of use. I replaced mine - and now its like brand new again. Drains OK every time. The OEM rubber replacement part cost me less than $10 on eBay.
Deepest appreciation for this easy to understand instructional that saved me money and made me feel soo capable! Now I'm a capable woman with clean dishes!
Grats to you for trying it out yourself before calling!
Thanks for posting this! 2yrs later and it’s saving $’s
Thanks for the tutorial. I did not find anything but good to know how to access everything.
Thanks Craig. I'd tried fishing about inside the machine but removing the drain hose inside the machine and pumping out, cleared the blockage - what ever it was ( I couldn't really see any largish bits of stuff). Your suggestion worked where other efforts failed.
Thanks for sharing this. All the other videos were helpful but yours finally showed how to test it!
Thank you. I have fixed several issues with this same machine, but none of them are working this time.
Your video was a new idea to try. Well done.
It worked! Thanx I made my mother proud. Just when all hope was lost her son did the impossible lol.
Great Video! I too found a piece of glass, but it had jammed the little pump impeller from turning under the cover that you described which sits under the filter screen. I only had to turn the impeller backwards to dislodge the glass and pull it out with tweezers. Up and running now.
Firstly thanks for this video. It let me fix mine without having to remove the unit.
What I did:
1. Set it on a cleaning cycle as per normal.
2. When it fails to drain, switch off the washer but do not reset.
3. Do NOT drain the water manually. You want to remove the screw and pull up the housing that covers the impeller.
4. Manually turn the impeller with your hand. I turned it only enough to free the impeller
5. Put back the housing and screw in
6. Switch on the washer. It should continue the cycle from where it was - i.e. when it was trying to drain the water. In my case it managed to pump out the blockage.
I'd try that approach first, and if that fails, remove and do what's in the video.
IMPORTANT! The first thing you should do is try a hard start after you clean the filter. Press the start button for 5 seconds and you will hear the dishwasher drain. Bosch SilencePlus50 DBA. This fixed all my problems.
Were bailing water right now sir, but yours was the best video I've seen.
Thank you, I hope ours is a piece of something in the tube as well.
Mary Ellen
Thank you so much for posting this. You saved me a lot of time and money by being able to diagnose and fix my own bosch dishwasher.
Thanks, it did the trick and saved me a plumbers bill.
This video was just the push in the right direction to get my DW fixed. Turned out that the breather valve and line were both fouled. Thanks for posting this!
Thank you so much for this video! I was able to undo the drain hose and run a rinse cycle and as the water drained out popped a piece of glass! My dishwasher is running again!
Hey. Thanks. Your video helped me out. All I had to do was go as far as getting to the flap. It turns out a broken piece of chopstick was jamming the impeller blades. A was worried the motor failed. Turned into an easy fix.
Thank you for this video, Chicken bone some how made it into the area beside the check valve. Once rmoved works perfectly again. Obly thing i would have added is that there is a screw that needs to be removed to get the plastic cover above the check valve out
Thank you. Our drain line had a clog in it between the dishwasher and the drain thing on the sink. It is working fine now.
Thanks. Got mine going again. Not exactly which of the things I did made it work, but I was led by your video. Cheers.
Thank you so much. I was ready to order a new dishwasher and you saved me so much money- I almost feel like sending you a check. ;)
That did it! Really appreciate you taking the time to do this video! Thanks again!
Thanks this was helpful and I will add a comment that may help someone else. I had good flow from the hose shown here but my blockage was from the hose from the machine to the sink drain. There was gunk stuck right at the fitting where mine narrowed down at the drain pipe connection so that it wasnt fully draining. Hope this helps
Great video. Saved us $$$ on a repair technician for a simple problem.
I had the same problem and your video gave me enough info to fix it!
Thank you very much for this video, I just saved myself $400 to fix the pump part or $1000 if I had gone new.
Your instructions are solid. You many need to hire another videographer...
Thank you. Really a great tutorial for this you tube do it yourselfer.
Fixed my dishwasher with your video, sincerest thanks.
This worked for me there was a little plastic wrapper caught near the impeller. Better advice here compared to Bosch site!
Thanks for a great video, very helpful. It would be good to have seen how you removed the dishwasher from under the counter, but hopefully I'll find another video to show how this is done.
Thank you Craig...YOU SAVED US $900.!
Thanks so much for your video. It enabled tracking the drain blockage to the drain at the sink.
Thank you for the excellent video. I have had a similar problem but with a pistachio shell. Beginning to think the filter on the inside of the tub is easily bypassed by debris. Bad design?
Great video. I found a broken piece of a chopstick blocking the impeller.
Really helpful. Thank you from the UK. 😀🙏🏻🍻
Many thanks - all fixed. (My wife watched a technician do the same a few years ago - at great cost - but could never remember enough to allow me to do the same! Situation normal: man blames wife for his domestic failings...)
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Mine doesn’t have the release trigger to activate the pump... I just hooked the shop vac up and shlurped all the water out along with som serious food boogers. Wife decided that the 9 yr old could load the dishwasher without supervision. Not good. Nothing scraped into the trash hence the boogers and the fibrous wet wipe chunks that the grinder didn’t get 100% shredded. Lesson learned. Yes I did make Mom empty the shop vac and clean the floor cause once I found out what the real cause was, I stopped being careful.
Big help! Thank you!
Removing the tube as instructed didn't work for me. But using the red "lever" to turn on and off the drain pump several times appears to have removed the drain pipe blockage between the dishwasher and the sink drain. Now the only question is: whose turn is it to load the dishwasher? Thanks for posting the video.
Cheers Craig. Hi from the UK!
thank you. very helpful. This is what I needed to solve the problem. You saved me time and money. thanks again.
thanks for this,same thing a piece of wine glass. and she says call the service guy huh.
Thanks much! The video was helpful.
Hello, can we shroud naked dishwashers in a tarp or plastic to keep it dry just in case water was to leak in from an - often wet - benchtop above? Thank you. 🙏🏼🤪👍🏼
I don't know, I'm not aware of any exposed electrical components I think I would be more worried about the insulation around the dishwasher developing mildew.
Important - put the white impeller cover back on when re-testing; our dishwasher repair man tells us that the dishwasher doesn't drain unless that cover is on.
thank you very much, you saved me a couple hundred dollars
This is where the problem was for me..... the drain pipe underground my Sink was full of broken glass and plastic. I suggest you undo the plastic hose connected to the pipe and have that cleaned!
Thank you for the big assist. Your video was well done
Thank you very much! It is exactly was i was looking for. Great job, Craig
Very good video. Thanks.
Thank you so much you saved my 200 dollar 👍👍👍👍🙏🙏
Thank you! Why is this not in the manual!?
thank you very much for help its working now
Great video thank you for sharing your experiences...
What this highlights is that the various filters before the impeller do not work.
Excellent explanation. Thanks, Craig!
Thank you. Sure helped me to get drain working.
It was wonderful .
How did that piece of glass make it through the screen?
One match stick u saved me euros thanks
Brilliant, thank you!
Interesting stuff, but sadly there doesn't seem to be any way in to these parts of the machine. I can take the torq screws out of the side panel but its still firmly fixed. Seems to be folded under the top & no screws seen to take that off. Have to shell for the engineer to visit: BAH!
The person typing the title had a stroke near the end
Mine doesn't spin or do anything, I hear the power buzz / Humm but water flows only out when putting hose down. Doesn't have power to push it up. Anything else I could do?
That was great. Thanks for posting.
I did the same thing but now the cycle is not working i was not able to get the water going the dishwasher starts and make the usual noise , but nothing happens no water . please what am i doing wrong here?
Why is mine IS dripping water on the floor I cleaned it OUT?
Thank you!
How much normally it cost to fix it?
Isn't the impeller always on when you run the dishwasher?
my samsung dishwasher goes thru the complete cycle find but then fills with water several hours after it was dry inside. if i just run the drain function it drains fine. i cant find a leak. the drain hose high loops looks fine its around 18 inches off the ground under t he sink and i klnow it isnt pinched. any ideas?>
my bosch problem was that check valve was stuck thats blockin the draining
I need to know why my dishwasher do not rinse my dishes after its washed
While it works for many people who have similar problems, handing a running dishwasher is, to me, a real hazard for electrical accidents and even damaging the appliance. Must be very cautious.
do exactly this and use a shop vac to suck the crap in the drain hose backwards, what i had to do with mine
Im going to try it, that might be the problem, thx
I learned that there are flaws in their design.
Excellent!
Any help with the SHX-4ATF-5UC/14 model as it does not work the same (no red rod). Same symptom (E-25) yet the filter inside is all cleaned.
2:45 xD whos eating