Have you checked your manual? Mine has a chart for the length of the different cycles.

I don't have a Bosch, but it's probably normal. These days to conserve water and energy, cycle times are MUCH longer than they used to be. It also depends on what options you select. On my KA, selecting Sani-Rinse adds a lot of time to the cycle. Mine has a count-down timer but when I use the Sani-Rinse option, when the DW hits 46 minutes left, it sits there for about 1/2 hour before proceeding. Does your owner's manual give you any indication of how long the various cycles should take?

Just bought a Bosch, check the manual on yours, on mine regular wash 120 min, pots and pans 140 min.

This is going to be variable and it depends on the temperature of the incoming water. I *know* this for a fact. When my Bosch DW was (re)installed after the remodel, I got a few facts confused and I asked the plumber to connect the DW to the cold water tap. The cycle lengths turned out to be about 150 or 160mins which was far longer than it used to be pre-remodel. So, I had him switch it back to the hot. Well, it dropped to about 107 minutes or so thereupon.

Recently, I was testing something at one of our taps and I realized that the hot water at our taps was about 130deg or 140deg and who know *what* at the hot water heater! That was far far too high and I lowered it so that it is now 118degrees at the hot water heater. The DW cycles are back up now and I think we are about 120minutes at this point for a normal wash.

Note that the DW keeps a running average of past cycle lengths and as a result the only times I am reporting are those gleaned from the displays the DW countdown timer shows when I select a mode. I do not know the actual times that the runs last as I've never really kept track of the unit once I get it going. As a result, I do not know if when I say 120minutes or so that the DW running average computation has converged on the right running time or if it is still computing up and therefore if my actual running times are even longer.
Also, that the DW cleans excellently - it does not seem have impacted cleaning performance whether the DW was connected to the stone cold, the terribly hot or the now intermediate.

So, my advice would be to check your incoming temperature as that could be a primary driver. If you are indeed connected to the hot water line, and you are *otherwise* comfortable with that temperature, I wouldn't necessarily raise the hot water temperature. Alternatively, you may have a hot water line but have a tankless HW heater which to all intents and purposes to the DW may well be just a cold water connection! I'd just live with it - this is the flavour of energy conserving DWs these days.

Hope this helped - a lot of anecdotal information but I just wanted to show that longer cycle times (> 100mins) is de rigueur now and that depending on the water temperature there can be a lot of variability in the wash durations.

In the Bosch Service training classes I've attended they point out that the Bosch does not count down like 99, 98,97,etc. The Bosch has a computer that is checking water temp and water clarity and will adjust the time as needed. I think the Use manual has this info also.
They tell us that the computer remembers the last 5 washes and if the water is going in cold all the time the d/w will adjust to longer times and if the water is going in very hot all the time it will adjust for shorter times.
So you might see the read out with 126 and look at it a minute later and it may read 110. This is because the computer made an adjustment based on all the sensors.

My Bosch runs about 110 min on a regular cycle, but we use the light cycle most of the time -- about 80 min.

When you turn the machine on, you get an estimated time or the cycle selected -- based on presets if new or previous cycles if not. It then does countdown, and may make adjustments after it starts. I don't think that part was clear inthe above reply. It does hava countdown, just not a fixed countdown.

My Bosch runs about 114 minutes on a normal cycle. Ours is three years old and has been very consistent with the time.

Enjoy the journey.

eal51 in western CT

Wow - thanks for all the great information! Now I have NO idea whether this is connected to hot or cold water... the installer was *supposed* to come this morning to straighten the crooked installation (see other post) but he didn't show. So, I'm looking at early next week and I'll check the hot/cold connection before he shows up.

I'm not clear on one thing: I'm assuming if it's connected to cold, I should ask him to connect to hot? (I don't have a tankless; it's a tank set at about 120 or so).
Thanks,
Mel

OK - my Bosch is connected to the hot water... so either I can leave it alone, turn my water temp up, or maybe my dishes are just real dirty lol!