Miele washing machine error code F10

What Miele publishes for it

On a Miele washing machine, the manufacturer publishes this for the water inlet is blocked or restricted. That sentence is Miele's own, read off its published support page for this condition rather than worked out from the outside. Everything below it — what the condition covers and what is worth doing first — is ours, written from what this equipment does in Miami kitchens.

What this block of conditions is about

Miele writes the condition as F and a number on the W1 machines and on the professional Little Giants alike, and the numbering runs further here than on anything else it builds — past F200 and past F300. The high numbers are not more serious than the low ones; they are a later block of the same list.

What it covers

What a published cause names is a circuit rather than a component, which is the single most useful thing to know before anybody orders a part. This one covers:

• The faucet is not open.
• Terminate the wash program.
• The inlet filter is soiled.
• Sample illustrations
• Unscrew the water inlet hose from the faucet.
• Hold the free end of the water inlet hose upside down.
• The plastic filter (2) will fall out.
• The water inlet filter must be put back in place after cleaning.
• Re-assemble in reverse order.
• If water drips out, tighten the connection.
• Additional information can be found in the linked video.
• The water inlet hose is kinked.
• Monitor these points for a while afterwards, as the plastic may weaken and tear. In the event of any damage, the water inlet hose must be replaced. Please contact a technician.
• The water connection pressure in the water supply line is too low.
• With the faucet fully open, at least 5 L of water should flow from the faucet within 15 s.
• Contact the facility manager or a plumber.
• The water connection pressure in the water supply line is too low and cannot be increased.

Worth trying yourself, in this order

1. Turn on the faucet.
2. Select the program and start it again.
3. Clean the inlet filter:
4. Turn off the faucet.
5. Remove the rubber seal (1) from the recess.
6. Clean the water inlet filter.
7. Turn on the faucet and check that the connection is watertight.
8. Remove any kinks or loops from the water inlet hose.

Then what

Try it in that order before booking anything. A Miele washer is a machine that reports precisely, so when a code clears after the owner has done what the maker asks, it has usually told the truth about what was wrong. If it comes straight back on a machine you have already reset, stop repeating the cycle: on the W1 and the Little Giants alike, a repeated lock or drain condition is a part, and running it again with a load in it only leaves you with wet laundry.

Miele publishes this one for the washing machines. The full Miele archive has the other conditions, searchable, and on this make the same number appears on more than one machine roughly a third of the time, so the appliance above is part of the answer. We repair this equipment across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.