Dishwasher Help Forum

[itsbroke]

started out as intermitant draining then not draining at all.Program then stalls and has to be manually drained, then will restart and sometimes complete a cycle.
No blockages, pump can be heard running normally (when it does drain)
This machine is only a couple of years old and very lightly used, probably only once a week. Any ideas anyone?

Thanks in advance,
Tim

[stevebunyan]

Might be worth taking the pump off and examine it for signs of wear, they can jam when worn.


Sent from Steves
iPhone using Tapatalk

[iadom]

Its a BFI620 and at a guess is at least five or six years old.

If you give us the full serial number and any other numbers we can date it correctly.

100% Indesit

Depending on the serial number it can have the drain pump circuit routed through the main wash motor.

One way to test this is to leave it after has failed for five or six hours and then try and get it to drain, if it does then drain it would suggest that the main circulation motor/pump is failing.

When the machine 'stalls' you should get some of the lights on the top of the door flashing.

[itsbroke]

6 years? thats a surprise - was fitted new about 2 yrs ago with a kitchen package. NOS I guess then..

Its my Mum's, I'll run it like you say and get the serial number and report back.

Thanks for the help.

[itsbroke]

ok ... here's the info -

s/n 50520 3196

run on normal cycle, stalls, water in mchine, lights 2 and 3 flashing. left 6 hrs will not restart.

manually drained and repeated as above, same result BUT now lights 2 and 4 flashing.....

does this help?

Thanks again,
Tim

[iadom]

Sounds like its in a bad way, but then it was made on the 20th of May 2005.

2+3 is supposed to be a fill problem. Tap, Inlet valve, connections, PCB, water turbine.

2+4 is more common and is a no heat error message, 95% of the time a no heat fault is caused by either a faulty heater or a PCB fault.