--- title: "Miele error codes, decoded by appliance." description: "Every Miele error code the manufacturer publishes for the appliances we repair, decoded — 175 conditions across 133 distinct numbers, because on this make the same number means different things" url: "https://mielemiami.support/error-codes/" date_modified: "2026-08-22" --- # Error codes archive ## Miele error codes, decoded by appliance. This maker writes an F and a number on everything it builds. Type the number below and pick the machine that is showing it — that second step matters here, because 42 of these numbers appear on more than one appliance and mean different things on each. 75 of the 175 are conditions Miele asks the owner to try first; the rest it says outright cannot be cleared without a technician, and those pages say so instead of inventing a checklist. 175 — conditions decoded 133 — distinct numbers 75 — the owner can try first from $95 — diagnostic, credited to the repair ## Type what the display is showing Spaces and capitals do not matter. F24, f 24 and 24 all find the same pages — pages, plural, because the same number belongs to more than one machine on this make. The appliance is in every title for exactly that reason. 175 conditions across 133 numbers, every one of them read from this manufacturer's own support base and linked to the page it came from. If yours is not here, that does not make it invalid — some appear only on certain model years. Call [(305) 518-1594](tel:+13055181594) with the model number and exactly what the appliance is showing. ## F1 is five different conditions. On a dishwasher it is a water and heating temperature sensor, short-circuited. On a washing machine it is a short circuit in the heating sensor circuit. On a heat-pump dryer it is a refrigerant temperature sensor. On an oven and on refrigeration it is something else again. That is not unusual on this make — it is the normal case. There are **133 distinct numbers behind 175 conditions**, so roughly a third of them are shared between machines. Every page here names its appliance in the title, and looking a number up without knowing which machine is showing it is how people end up reading about somebody else’s appliance. ## 100 of 175 say so in the manufacturer's own words. Miele is unusually direct about this. Where a condition is a board, a motor or a sealed circuit, its own page says that it cannot be remedied by the owner — and this archive repeats that rather than working around it. **Those pages carry no invented checklist**, because a ten-step routine that ends in booking a visit anyway is not help. The other 75 do have steps, and the steps are the maker’s own: a tap that is not fully open, an inlet filter thick with scale, a suction hose out of place in a steam oven’s water container, a drawer under an induction cooktop blocking the fan. Several of those end a call for nothing at all, which is why this archive is free to read before you book anything. ## Three things worth doing while the code is still on screen A condition clears when the power goes, and it takes the evidence with it. These take a minute and they are usually the difference between one appointment and two. Write it down exactly - The letter and every digit — F14 and F140 are different appliances' problems - Any words printed beside it, which the washing machines sometimes add - Which appliance is showing it, because the number alone is not enough on this make Note what it was doing - How far into the cycle it stopped, and whether it is always the same point - Whether there was water in the machine, and where - Whether anything was installed, moved or serviced recently Then try the reset - Off at the breaker for five full minutes, not at the button - If it comes back on the next cycle, that is real and worth booking - If it does not, a brownout caught the control mid-write — common here in summer ## Plenty goes wrong without one The gas cooking surfaces on this make publish no condition of any kind, and a dryer that simply dries badly usually reports nothing at all. Those are described in plain words instead. ## That does not make it invalid. This archive holds what the manufacturer publishes for the nine appliance types we cover. It does not hold conditions that appear only in service mode, ones specific to a single model year, or anything from the coffee machines and vacuum cleaners, which we do not repair. **Call [(305) 518-1594](tel:+13055181594)** with the model number and exactly what is on the display, including any words beside the number. We will tell you what it points at before anybody is booked. ## Questions we get about the display Is there one master list of Miele error codes? — Not one that means anything on its own, and that is the honest answer rather than a dodge. This manufacturer publishes its conditions per appliance family in its own customer support base, and the same number carries a different meaning on a dishwasher and on a dryer. The archive here is compiled from those pages so all of them can be searched at once, with the machine named on every page and the source linked. We do not reproduce the manufacturer's wording or its repair procedures. The same number is showing on two of my appliances. — Then they are almost certainly two unrelated problems. Roughly a third of the numbers in this archive belong to more than one machine, and they mean different things on each. Read the page for the appliance that is showing it, not the one that comes up first. Why do some pages have no steps at all? — Because the manufacturer says the condition cannot be remedied by the owner, and we repeat that instead of filling the space. It applies to a clear majority of the conditions on this make. Those pages tell you what the condition covers and what a visit does first, which is the useful part. The code cleared itself. Should I still call? — If it comes back, yes. A condition that survives a five-minute power cut at the breaker is reporting something real. One that never returns after a summer brownout is usually a control that was interrupted mid-write, and that is not a repair. My gas cooktop has no code. — It never will. This maker publishes no condition for its gas surfaces on any model, so a burner problem is diagnosed entirely from behavior — which burners, on which settings, whether it clicks and whether it holds. The symptom pages cover that. ## Tell us the number and the appliance. Those two together are usually enough for us to say what it points at and what it should cost. --- **[Read full article: Error codes archive](https://mielemiami.support/error-codes-archive/)**