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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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    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.