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| May 01, 2009 | Guest, Jim | COPYRIGHT 2009 Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The promotional copy from appliance maker Fisher & Paykel says: "We imagined the ideal dishwasher ... and the concept of the DishDrawer was born." Here's what you, our readers, say: Ha! A quarter of the Fisher & Paykel dishwashers you bought over five years had serious problems and/or had to be repaired.

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That's the kind of information that anyone shopping for an appliance needs to know before plunking down hundreds or thousands of dollars.

More than 112,000 of you told us about your dishwasher in last year's Consumer Reports Annual Questionnaire. That's just the tip of the iceberg; altogether, online or on paper, more than a million of you checked the boxes that tell the truth about how well products have held up. Or haven't.

Road worrier. Chrysler boasted that its Sebring Convertible "delivers what no other convertible on the road can." Owners of those 2008 Sebrings told us that what that car delivers is a fistful of mechanic's bills. Readers' reports on ...

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