Product review (1 stars): DO NOT BUY THIS DISHWASHER--IT LOADS POORLY, AND IS MADE OF CHEAP PARTS, ONE OF WHICH DESTROYED MY KITCHEN FLOOR.
We bought this dishwasher this year and we have never been unhappier.  We replaced a dishwasher and put this one in the same spot. In January the inlet valve cracked and flooded our kitchen floor.  Fortunately we were home and noticed in in 20 minutes. Had to turn off the water to the house, get an emergency plumber, ($400),  just so we could turn our water back on in the house.  I then called the people we bought it from the next day.  The repairman said the inlet valve had cracked which allowed water to flow onto the kitchen floor before it even got to the dishwasher.  He replaced it and said it was probably defective.  Now we go away in Feb over President's weekend.  Come home Monday night and find our whole kitchen flooded with water still pouring from under the dishwasher only this time it had been happening for 2-3 days.  Our beautiful old heart pine floor is ruined and cannot be repaired.  We have to replace it.  The same part cracked again.  In a effort to get the dishwasher out of the space, they had to send men out 3 different times.  When the dishwasher was installed, the men had to shove it into the space even though the space is a traditional 24 in.  This combined with the plastic inlet valve that has now replaced the metal one so Kitchenaid can save MONEY caused this valve to crack twice.  The dishwasher is now sitting in my front hall because the insurance company wants us to keep it here as evidence.  DO NOT BUY THIS DISHWASHER.  It is a piece of junk and cost more then any other Kitchenaid dishwasher.  And so they could probably save maybe 10 cents on a part,  my kitchen now has to be torn apart.  Remember, even though we've had a very cold winter, there has been a dishwasher in that same space for the last 35 years and this has never happened before.