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Re: Hotpoint BFI62 fault with flashing lights
Hi Jim
Yes it was just rattling around in the base. I reassembled everything last night without the filter and set it running on a rinse. That ran fine so I put it on a full wash overnight with one of those finish dishwasher cleaner bottles and got up this morning to find it had run the whole cycle fine 🙂Cheers for your help, a total positive result at no cost, fantastic 🙂
If the filter is an inlet valve filter then does that mean I need to dissasemble again to put it in?
What do you need a filter on the inlet valve for anyway? surely it’s clean water going in? Our house is entirely mains with no cold water tank so it’s even drinking water going into our dishwasher.Cheers again for the help
Phil
Re: Hotpoint BFI62 fault with flashing lights
Okay, I took the base of the dishwasher off and removed the pump, didn’t find anything too innocuous in there but gave it a good clean. However, sitting on the bottom panel of the dishwasher was a small circular fine mesh filter with a rubber outer circumference that was just the right size to fit in the pump inlet. So thinking I was clever, I figured someone must have had this off before and not put the filter back, so I put it in and set the dishwasher off again – same problem. This time when I’ve dismantled it I found that the filter I put in had instantly clogged up. Now I’m not feeling so clever 🙁 I guess it clogged up immediately because I’d taken the main filter out before tipping the dishwasher up so stuff has got behind it.
I can imagine that this filter is like a last line of defence to stop stuff getting into the pump, but as it’s just as tough to get to as the pump it seems a bit useless if it’s going to block up. Does anyone know if it’s supposed to be there?
Phil
