Hotpoint BF162 Problem – two flashing lights draining error.

[sooze69]

Hello

I have a rather old integrated dishwasher that is only used at the weekends and has always worked well. The other day I heard some grinding noises when it was working and the cycle ended up with the two lights flashing and the D/W having undrained water in the bottom.

I took the unit out to see if I could see if there was anything obvious wrong. The bottom was unscrewed and the draining pipe was checked in case of any blockage. There was a tank with a brown looking sponge filter and clear water on the other side – but I wasn’t sure if this filter could be blocked and even if it was I couldn’t figure out how to take it apart as all the hoses and pipes are held together by rings. I couldn’t see any section to take apart and look in. I’ve read some other posts – which talk about drain pump timeout – but I couldn’t see how to take anything apart to check for any glass, bone or grit.

So if anyone has any ideas or any diagrams / instructions on how to remove the parts I would really love to hear from you. I’d rather replace a part if one is available than to add this dishwasher to landfill if there is anyway to keep it going.

I’ve found that it would cost me 50{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of the cost of a new cheap range D/W to get an engineer to visit and that wouldn’t include costs of parts.

It seems the D/W may also be called an Ariston LI 62 as the instruction booklet which was supplied is for Ariston but the model information on the dishwasher is for Hotpoint. The images in the instruction booklet are identical to my D/W.

Many thanks

Suzie

[iadom]

Re: Hotpoint BF162 Problem – two flashing lights draining er

It’s a BFI62. 😉 It is not an Ariston, it is basically a cheap Indesit machine.

The drain pump can be accessed easily from underneath, follow the grey plastic drain hose into the machine, that attaches directly onto the drain pump.

The brown looking stuff is the water softener, leave well alone.

[sooze69]

Re: Hotpoint BF162 Problem – two flashing lights draining er

Thanks iadom – thanks for your super speedy response. You are correct it was a very cheap dishwasher – but it’s worked since 2003 when I had it installed with my new kitchen. Can’t grumble about that 🙂

The problem I have is I couldn’t see how to inspect any part of the dishwasher around the outgoing hose. Is there some kind of method or trick to this?

Thanks for the info about the brown stuff!

Suzie

[Martin]

Re: Hotpoint BF162 Problem – two flashing lights draining er

sooze69 wrote:Is there some kind of method or trick to this?

The “trick” is to pull out the mains plug, lay the machine on its back and remove the baseplate. The rest is fairly obvious.

[sooze69]

Re: Hotpoint BF162 Problem – two flashing lights draining er

I did all that yesterday – and it wasn’t obvious to me… but I am a girl and perhaps what is obvious to a man is not so obvious to me… 😉

I will take it all out again and see if it is obvious afterall – it just takes a while to shorten all the feet (so it can pass over the tile edge) and I can’t leave it on the floor in pieces.

So – do I just pull it out – or unclip it – unscrew it? It seemed all quite solid to me and I couldn’t see anyway to take it apart.

Anyone got any pictures or just a basic explanation of how to take the draining pipe apart from the bit I need to look at? I don’t want to use brut force and then someone tell me ‘you only needed to turn it and it would have come off easily’…

[iadom]

Re: Hotpoint BF162 Problem – two flashing lights draining er

sooze69 wrote: tell me ‘you only needed to turn it and it would have come off easily’…

How did you guess. 😆

That is exactly what you do, remove the grey hose, remove the connector plug from the pump, take out one small screw and the pump does just twist and come off.

Make sure you unplug and watch for water coming out of the hose grey hosepipe, have a couple of towels handy. Personally I lie it on it’s left hand side (from front) pump is easier to get at that way.

[sooze69]

Re: Hotpoint BF162 Problem – two flashing lights draining er

Okay – will attempt tomorrow afternoon and see what happens! The hose clips seem to be silver circles that are very tight and unless I wedged a screwdriver in I couldn’t see how these could come off – or infact if they should come off. Hence the reason for not pulling anything off in case I couldn’t refit it.

The other weird thing is that my Hotpoint BFI62 is labelled as Hotpoint – the instruction book is Ariston LI62 and I am now told it is actually a cheap Indesit… Are hotpoint, indesit and Ariston the same company?

[iadom]

Re: Hotpoint BF162 Problem – two flashing lights draining er

You don’t need to touch any of those stupid clips, the grey hose is secured with a large black squeeze clip. Indesit tok over Hotpoint over 11 years ago :rolls: , the already owned the Ariston brand.

[spadefist]

Re: Hotpoint BF162 Problem – two flashing lights draining er

Hi All,

I have a similar problem (first 2 lights flashing) which according to (http://www.hotpointservice.co.uk/applia … ror-codes/) means I’ve got a water drainage failure/timeout. However I have checked the drainage and can confirm that the unit drains fine (check outside drain too), but whenever I set a program (have tried multiple times after power-off reset) it defaults back to the same error message. Any ideas or am I just going to have to buy a new dishwasher, after all it is 14+ years old now?

Cheers
Steve

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