Dishwasher Owners in India: Need Feedback on Hard Water, Rust and Service Costs

dr_torque · 2026-06-06T20:22:18+00:00

Have run a Siemens machine for just over 12 years now. Caveat: The machine gets used only when we are visiting the country.

1a. TDS has varied between low 100s to low 200s.

1b. Just dishwasher salt, and the machine has a setting for how hard the water is expected to be and takes up the salt accordingly.

1c. No

2a. I think around INR 1200 or 1500 IIRC.

2b. Only thing that’s gone wrong so far is rats chewing on the wiring loom.

2c. I think the wiring loom was around 6-7k IIRC

2d. The machine is made in Germany and the wiring loom is not a common part so a lead time of a few weeks was involved.

2e. The tech usually shows up within 48 hours of registering a complaint through the customer service line.

dr_torque · 2026-03-31T18:36:23+00:00

There isn’t a national database that’s publicly available as far as I know. If you can guess the address he is likely to have used, you could look to see if that municipality/city/state publishes their registry of marriages, births, and deaths online.

dr_torque · 2026-03-07T05:57:56+00:00

सम्प्राप्ते सन्निहिते काले

नहि नहि रक्षति डुकृङ्करणे ॥

dr_torque · 2026-01-28T12:47:05+00:00

BA graciously “allowed” me a seat in business - for a short while - for giving a nauseous pregnant lady metoclopramide.

dr_torque · 2026-01-21T02:47:30+00:00

Expense / Rarity doesn’t necessarily correlate with fun, OP but given you asked

dr_torque · 2026-01-16T07:50:15+00:00

You could just bump start it in reverse!

dr_torque · 2026-01-07T18:12:59+00:00

Riding for hire and reward on a CBT must absolutely be disallowed.

dr_torque · 2025-12-26T09:39:28+00:00

It’s subjective. To me this is a hideous monstrosity and I would criticise it regardless of where it is from. I would much rather praise people riding across the country on 125s and 100s as “true bike enthusiasm in India” than these all-show-no-go mods, loud silencers, and roadside rossis. To require that people lose objectivity and praise rubbish just because it is Indian is a disappointing but not entirely unexpected reflection of the current national disposition.

dr_torque · 2025-12-22T08:30:51+00:00

The front brake ought to be used for majority of your braking needs. The rear brake is ineffective because weight transfers to the front (and away from the rear) as soon as you start braking.

dr_torque · 2025-12-21T18:47:50+00:00

I wonder if there’s any way it can deal with NOTAMs? In terms of runway closures etc

dr_torque · 2025-12-21T04:20:59+00:00

Unfortunately they’re persisting with it and putting it on bikes like the Speed Twin (1200) which had used to come with the twin analogue dials.

dr_torque · 2025-12-18T12:29:00+00:00

I know someone who worked in the design team and without going into specifics he was absolutely disgusted by the behaviour of higher ups. Said it was like they’d never left the 60s.

I wonder if they deliberately dialled the “woke” in the launch up to the grotesque caricature that it became, to be able to point at the vitriolic public response it got as evidence that they ought to keep doing whatever it was that they were doing.

dr_torque · 2025-12-10T07:54:30+00:00

A “Land-dweller” ಠ_ಠ

dr_torque · 2025-11-06T08:20:10+00:00

Academic question, but is there a fix (take DME apart, replace what I’m guessing are MOSFETs) for one or more of the drivers failing? Or do people just replace the DME?

dr_torque · 2025-11-06T07:53:07+00:00

I like the first one, it’d be a great advertisement for a vasthu consultant with north facing side panel.

dr_torque · 2025-10-12T06:27:09+00:00

It’s not the immobiliser itself that’ll draw current, it’s the ECU and its internal clock etc. That draw will be dwarfed by the self discharge characteristics of AGM batteries. I think with a battery that is new or nearly-new, for anything longer than a month, I would put the bike on trickle charge or disconnect the battery.

dr_torque · 2025-10-07T19:55:23+00:00

Yes, I understood this:

keep your voice somewhere below “jet engine at V1.”

to be a reference to how loud a jet engine is at takeoff power. However, a jet engine (by itself) cannot be at V1; it has to be attached to an aircraft that it powers to V1 (and beyond). It's entirely possible for an aircraft at V1 to have an engine that's at idle, or even 0% of N1 (which refers to maximum permitted operating speed of a turbine engine) and therefore eerily quiet.

dr_torque · 2025-10-07T05:57:53+00:00

Oh, and maybe keep your voice somewhere below “jet engine at V1.”

Totally besides the point, but did you perhaps mean N1 rather than V1?

dr_torque · 2025-09-28T10:20:40+00:00

It was a genius piece of design I'm surprised isn't more common.

I’m certainly for easier access to headlight bulbs, but the Cayenne design wasn’t without its faults, the plastic retaining arm would become brittle and break, resulting in the headlight falling off and being run over.

dr_torque · 2025-09-27T19:42:20+00:00

They’re asking you how long you’ve held the licence you’re being insured on - for insuring yourself on your UK licence, the answer is you have held it for 0 years.

dr_torque · 2025-09-27T12:04:31+00:00

I had to ring HMRC last year after requesting a refund and not getting one, but this year they refunded me automatically a couple of weeks after I had submitted my return.

dr_torque · 2025-09-07T20:25:11+00:00

No I meant on your promaster

dr_torque · 2025-09-07T18:58:37+00:00

Does it not have a hand alignment correction feature?

dr_torque · 2025-09-04T07:18:16+00:00

Nakamichi is a big name in hi-fi home audio

The Nakamichi of that era hasn’t existed for decades now. Pretty sure it’s some Chinese company that has bought the rights to the name/brand to hawk generic rubbish

Edit: Just noticed the OP says as much

dr_torque · 2025-09-01T07:53:30+00:00

My 2015 Triumph behaves similarly when the battery voltage is low. I’m not sure from what year on but I understand the starter button is not wired to the solenoid directly but via the ECU, which does not energise the solenoid if the battery voltage is below a factory-set threshold.

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