Hotpoint Hotpoint built-in microwaves fault codes
The plain built-in models. Their manuals contain no fault codes at all, so a code on one of these is undocumented by Hotpoint rather than misread by you.
Codes on the Hotpoint built-in microwaves follow the same Hotpoint scheme as the rest of the range. Where a code behaves differently on this generation, the code page says so.
Hotpoint fault codes
Every published Hotpoint code. Open a code to see which models and years it applies to.
- FThe letter F and a number, with no explanation attached. Hotpoint call it a software fault and ask you to read the number out to them.Get it checked
- F3E3The food probe is not connected properly, or not making contact. The one fault code Hotpoint publish for a microwave in their own documentation.Usually simple to fix
- Fan running when offNot a fault. Hotpoint publish this as normal: the cooling fan can run for up to thirty minutes after the appliance is switched off.Usually simple to fix