Dishwasher Help Forum

All normal indicators light up except programme selections. Power comes on as normal. Salt and rinse-aid lights flash up initially but none of the programme selector lights show.

Is this likely to be only the programmer or is there another possible cause.

Approximately how much would a programmer cost and how difficult for a reasonably adept DIY-er to replace ?

Any advice would be much appreciated ... have sought advice here in the past and been extremely pleased with response.

Thanks

It's the usual appalling Chinese tat - I wouldn't spend one penny trying to fix it.

Penguin45.

thanks for your succinct advice ... in the absence of any other contribution, I will probably just tip it

I know this is a very old post but these machines are still on the market.

I have one about 3 years old and thanks to this forum, an occassional "tip it on it side" to drain overspill (E4 error code), a new start/run capacitor, not relying on the multi tablets for salt but adding salt to the dispenser and frequent removal of debris from the spray arm noozles (these seem to suffer badly from this and are a real pain to clear [or are we using it as a food disposal unit instead of a dishwasher - joke]) it is actually still cleaning well! Mmm, that's quite a list isn't it.

Anyway for anyone looking this is very simple to fix.

What happens is that occassionally the door doesn't quite close properly but the plastic catch on the top and inside the door panel flicks into the closed position even though the door is slightly open. (This catch is meant to hold the door firmly closed.)

NOTE: reclosing the door doesn't reset the catch but it might break it if you force the door closed. Nor will looking closly to see if the door is slightly open tell you much - the difference between the catch working properly or not is negligible; only about 3 or 4 mm in the final (closed) position of the door.

With the catch in this closed position the programme buttons are disabled by the inbuilt programming and protection circuitary.

The solution is to remove the catch mechanism from the door and, using a screwdriver lever the small plastic catch back into the correct "open" position. It is an "over centre" device held in place by a spring and whilst quite stiff it will flick back to the right position.

It's a while since I had the problem and whilst I removed mine to fix it I'm not sure if you do need to remove the catch (only two screws) or if it can be done in situ.
NOTE: Just double checked you need to remove the cover panel on the top of the door and also remove the catch mechanism to effect this repair.

NOTE2: This section of the message removed by kandlbarrett, yes the reply below is wise advice!

kandlbarrett wrote:Finally the catch mechanism opoerates onto a microswitch with two wires on it. If the micro switch is defective or catch fallen apart and not operating it (yes they do that as well) you can just connect the two wires together that are on the microswitch.

NO! For the benefit of any future readers of this thread DO NOT under any circumstances do this, it effectively bypasses an essential safety mechanism which could result in severe scalding to the hapless victim that opens the door mid-cycle.