Miele dishwasher error code F600

What Miele publishes for it

On a Miele dishwasher, the manufacturer publishes this for the AutoDos system is blocked. 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

The largest block in this archive, and the one with the most conditions an owner can clear without a visit — the water side of a Miele dishwasher reports itself in detail, and several of these numbers mean a filter, a hose or a tap rather than a part.

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 AutoDos system is blocked.
• Rotate the screw thread of the lower spray arm counterclockwise
• (view from above) and pull the spray arm upward to remove
• Reinstall the lower spray arm. Ensure that the filter combination lies flat in the base of the wash cabinet.
• Rotate the screw thread of the lower spray arm clockwise (view from above) until the arrow in the viewing window points to the lock symbol
• And open it.
• Depending on the model, your dishwasher will feature either AutoDos 1.0 or AutoDos 2.0.
• View of AutoDos 1.0
• PowerDisk holder
• View of AutoDos 2.0
• PowerDisk holder
• Yellow pull tab for unlocking the PowerDisk holder
• Yellow tabs on the PowerDisk holder
• It is very important that no moisture is able to access the inside of the AutoDos system during cleaning.
• Cleaning AutoDos 1.0:
• Tug the pull tab to release the fill channel (arrow)
• Put the holder back into place so that the arrows in the PowerDisk holder and in the viewing window point toward each other. The holder must lie flat.
• Cleaning AutoDos 2.0:
• Unlock the PowerDisk holder by tugging the yellow pull tab in the direction of the arrow
• At the same time, pull the PowerDisk holder upward by the yellow tabs and remove it
• Tug the yellow pull tab in the direction of the arrow
• At the same time, reinsert the PowerDisk holder
• When you do this, the arrows in the PowerDisk holder and in the viewing window must point toward each other. The holder must lie flat.
• The AutoDos lid must close tightly so that the powder granules do not get wet and clump together.

Worth trying yourself, in this order

1. Turn off the dishwasher.
2. Clean the bottom spray arm:
3. Remove the lower basket.
4. Use a pointed object to push food particles that are stuck in the spray arm jets into the spray arm.
5. Rinse the spray arm thoroughly under running water.
6. Check that the spray arm can be rotated freely.
7. Clean the AutoDos system:
8. Turn the AutoDos lid to
9. Remove the PowerDisk.
10. fill channel for dispensing the detergent from the PowerDisk into the wash cabinet
11. Pull the PowerDisk holder upward by the yellow tabs and remove it. Make sure you do not tug the pull tab on the side.
12. Clean the AutoDos housing and the PowerDisk holder with a damp cloth.
13. Remove the fill channel
14. Clean the fill channel using water and a soft brush.
15. Dry all parts well so that the powder granules not clump together.
16. Insert the fill channel again until the pull tab clicks into place.
17. Clean the AutoDos housing and the PowerDisk holder with a damp cloth.
18. Dry all parts well so that the powder granules not clump together.
19. Insert a full PowerDisk. Press down the PowerDisk evenly until it sits flush.
20. Make sure that all seals are clean.
21. Close the AutoDos lid and turn it until the lid handle is directly below the

Then what

Start with the water, because on a Miele dishwasher this is where the owner's half of the diagnosis lives. The tap, the inlet filter, the hose and the drain account for most of the conditions the machine can report, and all four are reachable without tools. South Florida's water leaves scale in the inlet filter faster than the manual expects, so a filter that was clean a year ago is not clean now.

Miele publishes this one for the dishwashers. 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.