Bosch is fairly reliable. You won't have problem within 5 yrs. Mine the control board konked after 10 years. I decided to replace the board and shock absorbers. Total bill was 740 including labor.
So your warranty extension is likely not useful. Hope you didn't pay a lot.

The Bosch repair uncle told me most parts are made in China anyway. I have not independently verified this but the made in Germany ones are indeed assembled in Germany. Mine is the made in Germany model and hence 740 is still a small amount vs the price. Plus I changed 3 shock absorbers for RM150 which is not mandatory but they make the machine quieter and more balanced. The control board for my model is roughly RM500+

This is the price from official Bosch repair center. They charge RM100 per visit. You can probably do it cheaper with outside repairmen.

I do own a Bosch Washer + Dryer that was made in a China factory. Unlike many brands that are made in China, Bosch products are built at a Bosch owned factory therefore quality will be as good as if not better than those built in Germany because the factory in China would be newer and have later iterations of machinery. Bosch is a big brand in China and many of their upper middle classes will have Bosch appliances in their house as they tend to look down on their indigenous brands the moment they can afford foreign brands.

Thus far no complaints about the machine, having to deal with their service centre on the other hand is a different story.

Also do note that many of the assembled in EU Bosch products are assembled using many components that were manufactured in China and rest of the world.

Sos : Me did a visit to their plant in Shanghai during my MBA. Extremely state of the art factory and surprisingly very highly automated for a country with such big population. One of the big shot managers there from Germany was confident enough to state that the factory he managed was one of the most advanced in world and more advanced and modern than those in EU.

Lol. Yours won’t last as long if they have fancy new features such as active oxygen etc features. Before you know it your washing machines can massage you as well!

I miss the days when my washing machine is fully manual. Timer is on full manual clicks. The more useless features you get the more likely it will fail!

It is the same thing. If your appliances are too smart they will die sooner!  The more features you got, the less reliable it will be.
I have my Sonoff 20A switch dead less than a year. My Schneider manual switches are all fine after 12 years.

i'm using Dynamo Power Gel, so far no issue. Just need to reduce the amount according to ur load. as it uses very much less than using on TL.

That showed how damaging FL to clothes cos it is more severe in cleaning.

wait til a few months more of constant washing. Then you can see

Tak rosak mana ada baru.

why it is hard to find european washing machine in malaysia. I've seen a lot of  them in 90s like zanussi, siemens, ariston, whirlpool, elba & electrolux italia. does it  too expensive to be sold?  & honestly, european machine tend to last longer

My Toshiba 11kg top load wm is oredi 5 years with zero issues so far. Hopefully it remains that way.

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Ok to buy new after 10 years. No matter what good brands, it cant last forever and as long it doesnt give much trouble and cause inconviences.

hi sifus, I'm moving into new house soon n planned to buy washer n dryer (separately)
quoted rm3599 for Electrolux 11kg  front load washer and rm3990 for 9kg heat pump dryer..is it worth it?

btw all this while i was using liquid detergent with softener and always have black residue prob..shud i change to powder detergent? any recommended one?