At 48 dBA, the SHS43CF5N is slightly louder than the SHS53, but it holds the same 16 place settings and carries the same third rack. The handle is a scoop, the tub is stainless, the racks use the EasyGlide system, and Home Connect works with PrecisionWash.
People often misjudge that capacity figure. Bosch arrives at place settings using a laboratory standard, which says little about how many dinner plates physically fit. An ordinary family’s evening dishes fill the racks while the third stays free, and loading past that point is the commonest reason a load comes out poorly.
Most of our visits to this model therefore end with advice and no part. A big platter can block the lower arm, and plates put in unscraped clog the filter. Spinning the lower arm by hand and looking at the filter are the first checks.
Scrape them but skip the rinse. The soil sensor has to detect something, and a pre-rinsed load may get a shorter, cooler program than it needs. Big scraps are what you want out of the filter.
Before starting, turn it by hand. Anything it touches as it goes round is stopping the spray from reaching the rest of the rack.
No. That number comes from a lab standard. In daily use, a family's dinner dishes fit with the third rack still empty.
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