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Hi can anyone help please my wife ran out of dishwasher tablets and used washing up liquid now the machine is stuck in cycle and continues spraying i have tried a cold rinse but it has no effect thanks oliflick.
Oli,
The machine will have been circulating foam instead of water, which will almost certainly have caused some sort of heater safety thermostat to cut out. Your machine will be stuck at the heat part of the cycle; the programme will not continue until temperature is reached, which it isn’t going to do!Get out as much foam as you can and try resetting to the rinse and hold programme, use it to flush out the machine.
Some safety stats are resettable, some are one shot devices.
Unless you are very confident in your abilities it’s engineer time. Whatever you decide to do, pull the plug first.
Regards,
Penguin45.Re: hygena AHY8102 help?
It only has two programs cold rinse and wash i got out all the foam and have tried both programs and it still continues to spray only, thanks for your help will try an engineer 🙂
Check the Directories section for a UKW engineer in your area, or stick your postcode up and some-one will pick up on it!
Regards,
Penguin45.Re: hygena AHY8102 help?
That dishwasher uses a odd mechanical timer arrangement that needs to be carefully re set by an engineer (its not actually in the door, so dont go looking there). The heater re set is also well hidden.
Re: hygena AHY8102 help?
Oliflick, I got the exact same dishwahser (AHY8102) and had exactly the same problem (put washing up liquid in). I rinsed out etc, etc and found that it still would not complete it’s cycle.
The answer I found was to bring the dishwasher out from under the kitchen unit, obviously disconnect the mains and watch you dont put too much stress on the water supply.
Then take off the right hand side of the dishwasher (large panel). Open the door and there is 2 screws, remove these. There are another 2 screws under the door and then there are three screws at the back. Lift the side panel and this comes off.
This dishwasher has one safety resettable thermostat. This is the on the bottom right hand side of the unit (looking from the front) and is easy to spot as this is like a little red nipple. There is only one of these in this unit so you can miss this. Press the little red blighter down and hey presto, it resets and all is fine.
What I did to mine was to first empty the washer using the drain timer setting at the front bottom of the machine. There is a black cover under the door, held on with 2 screws. If you set this to the 12 O’clock position this empties the unit.
Simple, it works, believe me, I did this …….
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