Have had a 27" 500 series Bosch wall oven for almost three years and have been pleased in all respects. Quiet fan and large oven capacity for the size. The oven light goes off each time the door is closed so it has to be turned back on if you want it to stay on during baking. That is a pain, but not a major issue. I do have to rotate items once for even baking. If you want items to brown, convection must be used. For convection, Bosch says to reduce temp by 25 degrees and that has worked for me. Overall, the oven has the feel of a quality product. Although not metal, knobs still look like new. I think they'll hold up nicely long term. I don't tempt fate by using the self-clean feature. The interior walls seem to clean easily so I'm OK with that. I had planned to special order an easy glide rack, but the standard racks are hefty and glide nicely so have decided to stay with standard. You might search online to see if you can still special order. Compare prices through different vendors. Of course this review does not speak to possible issues with current models. I've known a few people who have had durability problems with KA ovens and would not go with them again. I feel your pain going through that headache of appliance shopping. Good luck.

Had numerous problems with my Bosch ovens in both 27" and 30" size in the 500 series. After having had repairs and replacement they were finally sent back and replaced with GE Monogram. The quality control for Bosch cooking products has gone down hill according to the repairman. The oven interior size was nice and the choice of cooking modes was good but the workmanship leaves something to be desired.

Yes, but if that "one" flooded your living room and dining room, both of which had expensive carpet installed 6 months earlier ... it would become a defining moment for you too, lascatx. The dish drawers have been flawless, but they do have a moisture alarm on the floor beneath them. The reason the flood happened? During the night a brain fart happened (in the dishwasher) and water kept filling and flooding out the dishwasher because there was no ability to electronically drain the water. So when DH went to the kitchen to make coffee the next morning, slosh! slosh! We were not happy campers, especially since that dishwasher was about a year old.

I just bought and installed a Bosch 500 series single wall oven a couple of months ago. There was minor shipping damage where the top of the oven was dented in a little so I took the sheetmetal off the top of the oven and bent it back into shape. I also noticed a little centrifugal fan on top under the sheetmetal. I'm not sure, but I assume that's the electronics fan. If I had left the sheetmetal dented in and rubbing against that fan, I'm sure it would have been very loud. At a rough guess, the electronics fan is slightly louder than my 49dB DW, though I haven't really compared them back to back. I can tell when the fan is on, but it's not that loud. It's certainly no match for my toddlers. Also, since it's a fan, it's mostly just white noise (vs. the rhythmic noise of a DW) It is a bit disconcerting how long the electronics fan stays on. I think it's actually based on the oven internal temp, since it did turn off sooner once when I had the door open trying to clean up a spill. Finally, one other thing I noticed was that two of the sheetmetal screws were partially stripped out- one of them being one of the two fan retaining screws. If the fan was loose, that certainly could contribute to increased noise and rattling. I did go out and buy slightly larger sheetmetal screws, but didn't get around to putting them in. It is nice having the peace of mind that I could screw some bits in tighter if there was any rattling, though pulling the oven out would be a bit of a pain.