On the whole, we are very pleased with the refrigerator. It performs its function well and in (on paper) very low power. The cooling performance is way better than our 12 year old built-in refrigerator, which manifests itself especially at a significantly faster cooling pickled goods and a fairly uniform temperature distribution in the refrigerator considerably. The space is very good, also the vegetable compartment is spacious and through the grooves in the ground is not the vegetables in their own condensate. Even outside the refrigerator makes a good impression and adapts in its stainless steel look good in our kitchen a. It is worth noting here, however, that "stainless steel look" refers to the door, which is coated with a thin metal plate that looks like brushed stainless steel. A demand customer service has shown that this is actually "only" a stainless steel appearance is, not to "real" stainless steel. However, this is in my opinion positive assessment, on the one hand, no optical difference to our 1 meter next to it Siemens Geschrirrspüler with "real" stainless steel panel shall be established and, secondly, the surface of the refrigerator door is much less sensitive to fingerprints and dirt easily Wipe off. What is much more clearly noticeable, however, that the rest of the housing, so there on the sides and top, not stainless steel or from material in "stainless steel look". Here only the normal metal housing was painted silver. The difference to the door can be seen clearly, but is not disturbing in my eyes. Up to this point I would give five stars and a strong buy recommendation.
The trigger on a rating of four stars I give due to the built-in fan for indoor ventilation. This circulates the air in the interior of the refrigerator as needed in order to achieve a faster and more uniform cooling. He does this, for example, immediately after the closing of the door to quickly dissipate the heat flowed again. He is unfortunately clearly audible. The noise level is indeed quite low, I would compare it with the volume of the cooling system, but the nature of the noise is more of a sawed what I find very disturbing. The thick insulation of the refrigerator hear this no flow noise of the moving air but only a mechanical running noise of the fan. From my own experience I know that you just can almost completely eliminate this mechanical operating noise by a reasonable decoupling from the housing and am therefore very sure it would have been possible with little technical effort to secure the fan in the refrigerator so that it of is outside almost inaudibly. This is exactly what I would have expected at the price. A technical fault I can incidentally exclude, as I already had the Bosch / Siemens site customer service because my argument just described, the entire fan unit was replaced with a new - unfortunately without success acoustic. The service on the phone and also from the technician on site, however, is to be assessed as very good and very friendly and was free of charge upon presentation of the Amazon statement.
