When our old dishwasher carked it I asked the service repair man what brands he got the least call outs for LOL! He said if you want European then Bosch is a good brand (that is what we ended up getting and have been very happy with it) and if you want a cheaper brand, then Dishlex is a very reliable brand too. He also mentioned that the ones with all the digital parts are more likely to have issues down the track compared to the ones with manual dials. We bought one with just the basic dials on it, it was much cheaper than the digital ones too
Yep I would agree. I have a simpson which from memory was about $500-600 7 years ago whenI got it. It is a manual dial - no digital stuff to go wrong and I've not had any issues with it other than the little plastic roller thing breaking on one of the racks - still works, just doesn't slide in and out as easily as it should.