Miele Dishwasher Error Codes List: Every Code Explained

Every Miele dishwasher error code we could verify against Miele's own documentation — what it means, what usually causes it, and the first fix to try — in one table. Codes differ between model series, so treat your model's tech sheet as the final word.

How to read and retrieve error codes on Miele dishwashers

Miele dishwashers have a service level (button combination at switch-on, per the technical documentation) that reads the stored fault memory and runs component tests.

The complete Miele dishwasher error code list

How to reset / clear error codes on Miele dishwashers

Miele fault codes (F-codes) clear by switching the machine off and on once the fault condition is removed; the fault memory keeps the code stored for a technician to read later even after the display clears.

How to diagnose any Miele dishwasher code

Work the problem in this order: (1) record the code exactly, including any flashing tap or salt/rinse-aid symbols shown with it; (2) establish the water story — is there water in the base, is the tub dry, did the cycle stop early or never start — because dishwasher codes split into leak, fill, drain and heating families; (3) run the external checks first: supply tap and inlet hose for fill codes, filters, sump and drain hose for drain codes, and for leak codes, dry the base and watch where water appears on a short test cycle; (4) clear the code and re-run the shortest programme while observing — most dishwasher faults announce themselves in the first ten minutes; (5) replace parts last, in the order the code family suggests. A leak code in particular should never be cleared and ignored: the float that raised it is the only thing between a small leak and a floor.

A fault memory, not just a display: how Miele reporting differs

Miele dishwashers do not simply show a code and forget it: every F-number is written into a fault memory that a technician reads back through the service level, which changes how an owner should treat a code that seems to clear itself. A fault that appears once, clears when the machine is switched off and on, and never returns was an event the memory still holds; a fault that returns at the same programme stage is a standing condition the memory is counting. Miele's operating instructions are built around that philosophy — they show owners a deliberately short list (the drainage fault F11, the intake faults F12 and F13, the Waterproof reaction F70, and the circulation-pump fault F78, which models without a full display announce by flashing every programme indicator light) and state plainly that all other faults belong to the Miele Customer Service Department. That is not Miele withholding its list: the full F-table exists in Miele's technical documentation and is reproduced in the table on this page, verified entry by entry. It is Miele telling you which codes have an owner answer and which have only a diagnosis. The memory also explains F00 and F86, the two entries owners find strangest: F00 is the memory reporting that nothing is stored — a clean bill, not a fault — and F86 is a memory-only entry for the salt-container lid contact, which the display phrases in plain words as 'close the salt reservoir cap' while the number waits in the memory for the technician. Read a Miele display and its memory as two channels saying the same thing at different depths, and neither will surprise you. The memory discipline has one more owner consequence: do not erase the evidence before it is read. Because the codes persist for the technician even after the display clears, repeated power-cycling to 'make the number go away' achieves nothing the memory has not already recorded, and it destroys the one thing the memory cannot store — your account of when the fault appears: at the start of the programme, during heating, at the final drain, only on one programme, only since the machine was moved. Miele's own fault guidance asks for exactly that restart test — off, on, restart the programme, and note whether the message returns — performed once. A fault that survives that single honest test, quoted with its programme stage, is a complete report; everything after it is the service visit's work, not yours.

The supervision chain behind the F-numbers: intake, heating, circulation, waterproofing

Miele's F-numbers look scattered — they run from F01 to F91 with wide gaps — until you sort them by the chain they supervise, and then the numbering becomes a map of the machine. The intake chain is guarded three deep: F12 faults the intake at the start of the step and F13 at the end of it, the flow meter is watched for standing still (F18) and for turning stiffly (F19), and the heater pressure switch cross-checks the intake at F14, because on a Miele the same switch later proves there is enough water to heat safely. The heating chain pairs the sensor against the heater: the NTC temperature sensor shorted is F01 and open is F02, the heater relay's contacts are F24, a target temperature never reached is F25, and boiling protection — the programme interrupted and the drain pump run because the sensed temperature has gone too high — is F26, with the heater pressure switch returning at F51 and F52 if it resets during heating. Circulation has the richest family, because the pump and the slide shutter that steers water between spray levels are measured continuously: pump speed low (F67), pump running after switch-off (F68), pump blocked (F69), pump faulted outright (F78, and F79 for its interaction with the control), speed sensing at F53, and the shutter itself at F63, F84 and F85. Around the chains sit the door lock trio (F32 does not close, F33 does not open, F36 switch defective), the electronics (F40, the supply-frequency registration F42, the module interface F47) and the two water-quality sensors (softener F87, turbidity F88). Standing guard over all of it is the Waterproof system at F70: the float switch that fires when any chain's failure lets water reach the base, and the one code whose instructions — off, stopcock closed, call Miele — outrank every other check on this page. Two cautions belong with the map. First, Miele's own technical summary warns that not all fault codes apply to all model numbers: a code your series never uses cannot appear on it, and a number read from a flashing-light model deserves a second look before it is quoted, because the light patterns summarise faults the display models spell out. Second, the chains explain each other's false alarms — an intake restriction can starve the heating chain, and a circulation fault can present as a temperature complaint — so a Miele that logs two codes has usually told one story in two chapters. Read the earliest code first, fix its chain first, and let the second code re-prove itself on the next programme before believing two parts failed at once.

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Facts on this page were checked against manufacturer documentation: www.scribd.com · www.manua.ls · www.kayswell.com · www.mieleservicesupport.co