Product review (3 stars): Pros and Cons
There are some great things about this dishwasher (built 2003) and some things that are not so great. The best thing about the dishwasher is how easy it is to load and unload. For a household of two or three people, you find yourself filling and emptying the top drawer only, and once a day. No stooping, pulling out separate trays, trying to get silverware in basket at ankle level, and no door down tripping hazard. It is well built, quiet, and customer service is great. Love calling and finding a friendly Aussie to chat with (CS is in Australia, not NZ). And compared to my new washer, the dishes were dry.

But there are issues related to the design that make it less than trouble free. The basic problem is inherent with the two drawer concept. First it is a matter of drawer space particularly height. Because you have two pump agitator units and separate drawers each with a lid assembly the drawer is shallow and your bigger dishes  may not fit or something may block the lid from closing (resulting in flooding error.)  Also the distance between the spray arm and the dish rack is so close any thing slightly sticking down will block the arm and your dishes aren't clean. But with care in loading you can avoid both of these issues. (techniques I learned, my wife didn't) But others you can't.

Each drawer has separate fill and drain hoses. These have to extend in and out each  time you open or close the door. There is a harness that keeps the hoses from kinking.  The plastic harness eventually will break and then your troubles begin. (I'm told the new ones have a better harness design.) Also the mechanism that raises and lowers the door may stick resulting in flooding. When I say flooding I don't mean it floods your kitchen, the washer immediately goes into an alarm error mode that empties the water and will not stop buzzing until you cut the power to the washer.

The first time my FP flooded I called in a serviceman. I watched him fix it, and subsequently each time I had a flooding error I, myself, took out the drawer, mopped up the water with a bath towel, dried out the space, put back on the drawer . But this is not an easy thing and is annoying particularly if this one hour job happens a couple times a year.  The serviceman told me in his opinion the washer is well built and if the user is very careful to load it and operate it as instructed by the manual, it is a good product.

But parts are expensive and it needed about $400 worth at age 12, so I now have a new Bosch. I miss the ease of loading and dry dishes the FP gave me. But I suspect, despite the daily stooping, and inconvenience in loading the Bosch , I hope it will serve me will less major trouble than did the FP.