indesit D63 fill level problems and non dissolving tablets

[mbge5amw]

There is only one item in our house for which we have an extended warranty – that is our Indesit Dishwasher – fortunately for us there is only one one item in our house that keeps on breaking down and that is our indesit dishwasher. 😡

This months problem goes as follows:

Put a load on this morning – came to unload it and the dishwasher tablet door was ajar but the tablet was not dissolved.
I diagnosed the fault as a particularly tall item on the bottom tray stopping the top arm from spinning.
Removed said item and put the machine on again but the same result.

After a bit of noseying about I discovered there was a blocked jet on te top arm, the jet which points at the dishwasher tablet compartment.

So I cleaned out both spray arms and checked the drain filter was fitted correctly (yes it was)

Put it on again – this time on the rapid wash dry cycle (as I need some bowls for breakfast so want this sorted tonight)

I came into the kitchen half way through this and noticed a burning type smell. I opened the dishwasher door and noticed that the water level was such that the water just touched the bottom of the heating element – I assume this is wrong and that is why the element was glowing red and hissing as water dropped on it while my plastic items in te dishwasher had taken on a slightly different shape from that which they went in with.
For the record the dishwasher tablet had not dissolved – just got rather wet around the edges.

Could the faults be linked.

As I mentioned above I have a warranty but they take weeks to come out and if there is a simple fix I would rather fix it myself and have the dishwasher back in service.

Incase it is any use to your diagnosis the previous faults which were fixed under warranty were:

1. a piece of broken glass had blocked one of the pumps (it was the week of this fault occuring that they wrote to me and offered the warranty – after seeking advice on here and finding out how inaccessible and expensive the pump in question is I decided to accept the warranty)

2. the engineer explained it to my wife who explained it to me and now I’ll try and explain it to you – the machine had overfilled at some point for some reason – as a result of which it was now misbehaving – when you switched it on to wash it would open the inlet valve and simultaneously pump water straight out of the outlet.

Hope you can shed some light on this for me – otherwise I’m afraid its back to washing by hand while we wait for indesit to come out.

Cheers

Andy

[whitevanman]

Re: indesit D63 fill level problems and non dissolving table

If you were to attempt to carry out a repair, this could invalidate the warranty best advice would be wait for the engineer.

[Penguin45]

Re: indesit D63 fill level problems and non dissolving table

Your description of your current problem suggests that the pump is not actually running – the element is normally cooled by the spray of water from the rotors.

Just as well you’ve got the extended warranty then 😀 .

Regards,
Penguin45.

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