Hotpoint dishwasher fault codes
Hotpoint dishwashers report faults as an F followed by two digits, and every code they publish is covered here, including the one they describe in detail and then leave off their own list. Indesit machines use the identical table. Whirlpool is where it gets complicated: they own all three brands and their service site carries this same table, but a good many Whirlpool-badged machines ship with a different, single-digit code set that disagrees with it — so check the shape of your code before you trust these pages. And if your machine was built between 2005 and 2015, there is an open Hotpoint and Indesit safety notice about overheating, worth two minutes with the model checker before you troubleshoot anything.
Where the code shows on a Hotpoint
Start by working out which of two code systems your machine uses, because the same letter and number can mean different things on each. These pages cover the two-digit system: codes written as F01 and F03 with a leading zero, running as far as F15, and shown on a display-less machine by four numbered indicator lights. The other system uses single digits — F1, F4, F6, F7, F8 — and signals them on a display-less machine by flashing the START lamp a countable number of times: Whirlpool’s own owner guides put it as the display showing F4 "or the START indicator lamp flashes 4 times". It appears on Whirlpool-badged machines. If you are counting flashes of one lamp, you are on the other system and these pages are not for you. On the two-digit system you do not count flashes, which is where almost every guide online goes wrong. The four lights hold a steady pattern spelling out the number in binary: LED 6 is worth 1, LED 7 is worth 2, LED 8 is worth 4, LED 9 is worth 8, and you add up the lit ones. Lights worth 1, 2 and 4 give F07; all four give F15. Any other light blinking rapidly is just an attention signal and means nothing. Two caveats. None of the three brands publish which physical lights are numbered 6 to 9. And all three publish the same pattern for F08 as they do for F09, which cannot be right for both, so those two cannot be told apart from the lights alone.
How to reset a Hotpoint
There is exactly one reset in Hotpoint’s dishwasher documentation and it is easy to miss, because it is not in the owner-facing action for any code. It sits in the engineer’s checklist under F12, the board-to-display communication fault: disconnect from the electrical power supply, wait two minutes, reconnect the appliance and test it again. Two minutes rather than a few seconds is their figure, and it is the difference between the boards actually losing power and merely dipping. That aside, Hotpoint publish no reset sequence at all. Of their fourteen dishwasher faults, only the drain fault and the water fill fault come with a check they invite you to make, and everything else is answered with a phone number. This is worth knowing because the same page opens by telling you that you can identify the problem yourself and fix your dishwasher in no time. Switching off at the wall will clear a code that was a genuine one-off. It will not fix anything that is still there.
Most common Hotpoint faults
The Hotpoint codes people look up most.
- F03Get it checkedDrain failure or timeout — one of only two codes Hotpoint invite you to look at yourself, and usually a blockage.
- F10Get it checkedHeating element fault — and the page to read the safety notice on if your machine was built between 2005 and 2015.
- F06Get it checkedWater fill timeout. The other code Hotpoint hand back to you, and their own checklist covers pressure as well as the tap.
- F01Stop — call an engineerAnti-flooding overflow. The one code in the Hotpoint list that offers no owner check at all — it goes straight to an engineer.
Every Hotpoint fault code
14 published codes. Filtering happens in the page — every one is in the HTML.
Showing 14 of 14 codes
Hotpoint models
Codes can differ between generations. Check yours.
Guides that help with Hotpoint faults
How to reset a dishwasher, and why most codes have no reset
On a dishwasher, "reset" usually means cancel the programme. What each manufacturer actually offers, and the codes they deliberately give no reset for.Read the guideDishwasher not draining or not filling: what to check
Drain and fill codes are the biggest cluster in the category, and most end for nothing. The checks the manufacturers publish, in order, and where they stop.Read the guideDishwasher leak and flood codes: what to do right now
Every dishwasher code rated dangerous here means water where it should not be. What the machine is doing, what to do in the next two minutes, and what not to.Read the guide
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