Miele dishwasher error code F601

What Miele publishes for it

On a Miele dishwasher, the manufacturer publishes this for there is a condition in the AutoDos. 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:

• There is a condition in the AutoDos.
• The arrows in the PowerDisk holder and in the viewing window must point toward each other.
• The holder must lie flat.
• The PowerDisk must lie flush.
• Activate the AutoDos function and restart the program.
• If the message appears again, there is a technical condition.
• You can continue to use your dishwasher by deactivating AutoDos in the “Options” menu of a program and manually dispensing detergent via the detergent compartment.
• If you want to use AutoDos again, please contact Miele Service.

Worth trying yourself, in this order

1. Check whether the PowerDisk holder and the PowerDisk have been installed correctly:
2. Clean the Miele AutoDos system.

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.