What does that code mean?
Type the code showing on your appliance. You will get the meaning, what to check yourself, and what it costs if it needs a technician.
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- Boschwashing machine, E-codes and F-codes; dishwasher, E-codes, short and long form19codes
- LGwashing machine, two letter codes; dishwasher, two letter codes19codes
- Samsungwashing machine, E-codes on older machines, C-codes on newer ones; dishwasher, two character codes, E on older machines and C on newer ones21codes
- Whirlpoolwashing machine, F-and-E pairs, plus older letter codes9codes
Some machines carry one badge and another company's electronics. Maytag and Amana washers are built on Whirlpool platforms and show the same codes, so those pages send you to the same write ups rather than repeating them.
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No code showing at all?
Plenty of faults never display a code. These guides run the same checks a technician runs, in the same order.
Why another error code site
Most answers you find stop at the translation: F21 means a motor problem, E18 means a drain problem. That is the part you could have guessed. It does not tell you whether to keep using the machine, which check is worth doing first, or whether the quote you have been given is fair.
Every page here carries the same seven things: what the code means, whether the appliance is safe to use, what to check in the order a technician would check it, where the line is that you should not cross, what the repair actually costs, which codes get confused with it, and the date we last checked it against the manufacturer.
Codes are taken from manufacturer documentation and confirmed against at least two independent sources. Where a code is not confirmed, there is no page for it.