Fix Indesit IDL40 Dishwasher Flashing Lights 1 and 3
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ส.ค. 2013
- If Lights 1 and 3 of an Indesit dishwasher flash fairly rapidly after only a few mins of running, then you have a circulation pump problem or pressure switch issue (or something else perhaps). Usually it will fill with water, fail and empty or try to start circulate water and fail and empty.
Both are really simple to resolve and involve virtually no skill.
Easiest is to first check the circulation pump issue. Check the filter at the bottom of the washer (basket thing shown in video) for grease or debris. Also take both rotator arms off. Put them under a tap to see water runs free through them. Also should be able to see light through all the holes if held up to strong daylight and the feeder tubes.
If the machine is out, look at the semi-transparent tube running up the back of the washer when running, does water flow?
If these are all clear, check how much water is left in the sump (big hole the water runs into) in the base of the machine after attempting a run. It should only just cover the bottom of the hole. Perhaps fingernail depth (1cm). If there is more than this amount of water you may have a blockage so follow the video to clear it, on the other hand follow the video anyway, it probably needs a clean.
Check the outlet pipe out of the machine that goes into the house drains, check it is clear of grease, try putting it lower or higher, sometimes the drainage can fail when the machine gets clogged with grease or the drain pipe has moved due to vibrations of the machine.
Instructions to clear the machine of blockage
Note: I am just a machine owner, I know not if this will damage the machine, but my thought was its broken anyhow so gave it a whirl and it worked a treat.
1. Take out the baskets on wheels that hold the plates
2. Remove the two filter parts in the base of the machine (fine mesh and cylinder basket)
3. Scrub the basket and fine filter with detergent to remove grease and debris.
4. Wear rubber gloves and protect your eyes from splashes then pour lots of soda crystals over the machine base, then pour a kettle of almost boiling water into the machine over the crystals.
5. Use a large plunger over the two holes in the base of the sump to plunger out any bits. (beware of the boiling water when doing this see video)
6. LEAVE for half an hour or longer then repeat. On mine, lots of "bits" came out during the plundering, not shown in video as it had already been done previously.
7. LEAVE again, scoop out any large bits floating around so they don't block it again.
8. Put filters back in together with the racks and run on a full hot wash with machine empty. The soda water should clear out the tubes inside...
Hopefully problem fixed.
The other issue could be a faulty pressure switch. See the next video for that issue, but this video here is less invasive and virtually free to try first. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
Massive thanks to you. After wasting several days and initially dismissing your solution as too simple to be true, today I returned to it and voila, it worked. You saved me an unnecessary spend on a new dishwasher and also from wasting a reasonable fine dishwasher.
If you are still around- big shout-out saved us a lot of euros -thank you!
No worries - glad it helped
Thank goodness for TH-cam and people that put these videos on. After months of having this problem on and off, for the last 24 hours this issue wouldn’t go at all. So after finding this video I ordered a £5 plunger on Amazon with next day delivery (thank you prime) and today I’ve got a working dishwasher again! Saved me a repair call or a new dishwasher (it is quite old and thought it might have given up) but now it’s working again for a grand total of £5 and a boiled kettle!
Wonderful! So glad it helped and also stopped another machine prematurely hitting landfill.
😊😊
Buddy. Had my IDL40 for over TEN years now! Had this problem. I almost went and spent £££ on a new dishwasher. This has it working like new!!! THANKYOU :)
Thank you this worked thought i would have to buy a new dishwasher!!
awesome!
That's the 2nd time I have come back to this video in order to fix my Indesit Dishwasher🤣 (Memory is on the blink obviously !) Worked like a charm both times. Kudos to you. No faff video, tells you how to diagnose & fix with the minimum of frills or fuss. 5*****
Thanks - I'm astonished how a spur of the moment thought to video something, before it was as common to video this kind of thing has had some much attention for so long.
Thank you very much from Portugal. Already had a problem a week ago after watching your video I solved the problem of my dishwasher Indesit DFG 15B10
A 9 year old video saved my bacon, thank you :)
It's crazy when it was literally a spur of the moment, I'll just experiment with you tube and post this type moment.
Thanks so much for this upload, dishwasher up and running now 👍👍👍
Thank you very much! Had problems with my dishwasher for ages with the dish washer stopping midway through a wash and throwing up that error. Recently it wouldnt start washing at all. Couldn't find out much information online about that error code. Followed your video and it seems to have done the trick!
Wonderful news let's hope you get a little more life out of it.
Thank you. I just put a bottle of caustic soda and boiling water in two drainings and it appears to have sorted it. Thanks again
thank you for your help I didn`t have any soda crystals or a sink plunger so I poured vinegar in & left it overnight & that has done the trick thanks again
Might seem obvious to others but it just solved my issue. Had someone out recently who pulled out our dishwasher and when they put it back the clean water pipe got kinked and stopped drawing through water causing it to give lights 1 and 3 error. When I pulled the dishwasher out and no kinks ran fine so just taped pipe the wall to remove any risk of kinks and now runs perfectly.
Thank you so much for this because it happen to me this morning and I watched your video and I got it working!
After follow the tip, dishwasher (although was switched off) start making a pump noise and the water was pushed down until disapeared.
Now it seems sounds like at normal cicle👍👍👍
This seems to have sorted out our issue - thanks for posting this, that's another job off the Coronavirus joblist!!!
Good, hope there are plenty more to keep you from being bored!
Worked an absolue treat, Many thanks (wish I''d found video before stripping machine down!)
Worked for my Indesit 105 dishwasher. Thanks!
Great to hear!
Brilliant! I had resigned myself to spending christmas having to wash dishes as the damn machine had packed up 6pm on friday 2 days before Christmas! Didn't have Soda crystals on hand but gave the old plunger trick a go and BAM! worked first time. Thanks for the tip. Will be popping out first thing to hunt down some soda crystals.
If its worked -you are probably ok - wouldn't worry about the soda crystals - belt and braces...
That's what I thought but got some anyway - it's 6 years old now and probably will benefit from having a dose of crystals and a full cycle once a month.
All better now....thank you so, so much!
Thanks I am going to give this a try with mine as I am having this problem. I am hoping it works.
Yes! Couldnt find the solution anywhere else. Godsend, thanks!
I had this issue, filter had minimal debris. I had to remove the right side panel to reveal the pressure switch. Remove the pressure switch and blow the pipe. For good measure I flushed water using a hose pipe back through the pipe and into the main wash chamber. It dislodged some build gunk build up which was hidden in the lip of the sump. Once removed I reconnected the pipe to the pressure switch and the machine runs perfectly. The sludge/gunk was blocking the pressure pipe opening in the sump, this meant that the pressure switch was unable to detect the pressure difference once the machine started filling causing the fault code. 10 min job max and saves £££££
Awesome description, thank you!
Thanks for this. We've tried a few things to fix a Currys Essentials CDW60W10 dishwasher - but using Wilko soda crystals and a fair bit of plunging seems to have fixed things. With the CDW6010 it was the 3rd "rinse" light flashing and beeping Thought it might be something more complicated with pipes or drains, but fingers crossed this is it :)
You might have spared us a huge bill, thank you!
Another Christmas miracle, looking at the comments it appears I'm not the only one!
Thanks for posting - for a quick spur of the moment video - its sure helped a lot of people out.
You save the day !!! It worked !! thank you very much.
Glad the video helped!
Thanks for video. I have just fixed my indesit dfg262. Thanks a lot!!!!
Thanks for vid. Worked a treat :)
Thank you very much! You saved me a lot of time. (Obrigado, portuguese)
Hello, were is the video you say here: "The other issue could be a faulty pressure switch. See the next video for that issue, but this video here is less invasive and virtually free to try first."
It worked! Thanks a lot man!
Kirill Ploppa Glad to be of help!
Worked a treat. Thanks
glad to hear it!
Thankyou your method and you just saved me an engineer call out :-)
anthony mesa oh dear, he's just lost out on a call out charge, whoops.
Thank you sir I use very much big dishwasher thank you sir
Actually 99 times out of 100 this is just debris in the filters and basket. Wash out in clean water reinstall turn machine off for 1 minute then turn on again. Job done. Simple
Thanks for the help! Those lights have been doing my head in. Also, on a funnier note, this kinda reminds me of one of those 'Howtobasic' videos when you plunging the machine and poking at that button haha! Cheers.
Owenthesheppard Never seen 'Howtobasic', so don't know if that's a compliment...
He just ran out of eggs.
really helpful and clear thanks
no problem - thanks for taking the time to comment
Brilliant,.after spending £42 it failed again. For the price of a plunger and some crystals its going again Thank you.
Quite a heavy handed chap aren't you? Trays thrown, button whacked. Thought you were gonna kick it at one stage
Annabel Lockhart Hey- its tricky to video with your phone in one hand and dismantle the washer with the other! haha
Great. Worked, thanks!
Glad to hear it!
Hi, I have the same machine but in my case the lights that are flashing are 2 & 3, I have done what it says in the manual however it is still not working properly, do you know about this failure and how to fix it? Thank you.
Thank you, problem fixed.
David Antal yipeee!
Awesome - I have just done as you advised and once again have a working dishwasher. My advice is wear rubber gloves - my hands are on fire now!
Yeah - I've added a note about that, I made certain not to get it on my hands and washed them after...
Thank you very much!
Thank you; very helpful. You have solved a problem. :)
Glad it helped
Works for a lot of dishwashers... a tablet broken up in a jug of boiling water and poured in the hole can help too
Different model (DFG 262). I had lights 1 and 3 aka 3h and 9h flashing - pretty sure its the door switch sensor.
Trying this right now, fingers crossed.
It worked, it worked my hands are so happy, my kid is sooo happy.
Thank you.
In my dishwasher only exist three leds, and flash the first and the third: The dishwasher is Indesit DFG 2635 . Any ideas ? Thank you in advance.
With my washer you turn it on and it makes a buzzing noise that stops and starts and will not empty.gap mad d167
Will it also work if only the first one light shining rapidly?
goedenavond mijn indesit IDL500 lamp 2 en 3 aan ,,,,wat ik doe
Thanks - this is great! I have taken mine apart as per your video, there is quite a bit of food and a tiny bit of plastic (from a clothes tag!) stuck between the grey inner (attached to the silver mesh) and the white hard plastic filters. Are these two supposed to come apart as the instructions suggest they do, but I cannot for the life of me get them apart? There are two little notches from the grey inner poking out through the white outer and I can't out how to pinch them in to get the two filters apart. Thank you so much.
The whole filter contraption does come apart - the metal screen comes off from the white basket with the handle, and the outer cage bit comes off too. It seems to come off with an amount of twisting and pulling and poking at the plastic tabs.
thank you very helpfull!
No problem!
Great to know that it helped!
I have the same problem and have tried this method four times but it still has not worked. Any suggestions?
If I was that dishwasher I’d be scared to break. #aggressive
Hi i have idl 42 uit same probme. Where is the pressure sensor?
Thx
Sorry that was five years ago and I can hardly remember it now. I don't think I needed to do anything with the pressure sensor, it was just listed as one of the possible causes somewhere when I looked it up at the time.
Only first light flashing and dishwasher not working..... Any ideas please. Dishwasher is an Indesit IDL40
Do u know what the problem was? I have the same problem only the first one is flashing light.
I have a e State dishwasher and all lights are flashing on it unplugged it for a while plugged it back in all lights are still flashing anybody got an idea
What else is going on? Is it starting to wash ok, draining ok etc?
Everything has been working just fine but all the lights are flashing and it won't start or do anything
Pull it out and tip it on its side, expect water to flow out (mop handy). The bottom of the washer is a big tray that catches any leaks to prevent flooding the flat below (if you lived in a flat that is). There is a switch attached to a polystyrene block that floats should the tray fill with water. I think what you are seeing is that switch being activated.
www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/forumsphpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=57755 see this post for more ideas.
I used a empty bleach bottle to siphon the waste water, then poured down the drain
Repair procedure: petrbudvar.rajce.idnes.cz/
I did not use soda but sodium hydroxide