Hey everyone and welcome to another installment of the Sawickipedia. Today we
are looking at a Bosch dishwasher which has an E15 code, now this means that
there is water collected somewhere in the unit and the inlet pump has disabled
extra water coming in. The reason it does this is because if it detects water low
to the ground it will stop your kitchen from flooding. As you can see here, this
is where the dishwasher was, you can see that there's been a water leak towards
the front of the unit somewhere. I actually had to cut the kickboard
in order to get it out because the tiler didn't leave us enough room to do
anything else, but we'll fix that up later. You have to excuse the shaky
footage on this one, obviously I'm holding the camera by hand. What we're
going to need to do first is remove the screws that hold the front plate in
place. In this model there are six screws around the front of the door, and there's
another six towards the top, this holds the control panel in, but we don't need
to remove them. So just start by removing these screws, they are a torx bit, I think a t5
bit (actually a t20 bit) so make sure you got one of them handy.
All right, once you got those six screws out just put them aside somewhere safe.
Now we can close the door and
try and get the camera set up a bit better.
The way to get the cover off is to actually pull out around the bottom, and then pull down.
These little guys might fall out, they just clip, they'll only go one way back, they just
clip back around the front of the door,
they're just little spacers. Okay next thing to do is to get the bottom plate off,
it has a couple more little Torx screws around the sides and one over here,
we'll grab our screwdriver.
Now there are a lot of YouTube videos around about the e15 code,
most will suggest that you just tilt the unit back on a 45 degree angle, and while
this may work, just give this a tug, make sure you don't cut yourself, while they
will tell you the to tilt the unit back all that does is temporarily fix the
error code. What you need to do is remove this bottom panel, and the little foam at
the front, and inside the unit towards the center of the unit there's a little
styrofoam disk, with a little unit on top of it and a couple of blue wires heading
to it. You need to remove the little controller, just give it a good tug and you sort of have to twist it
to the right in order to move it,
and now you can get to the styrofoam disk. When there's water at the
bottom of the unit, this disc will actually float. It is pretty wet.
The disk will float this little nipple at the bottom here will actually push up on a
little switch that will cut off the water flow, so it'll stop water entering
the unit which possibly helps to stop flood your kitchen, but it is annoying if
it malfunctions. In this case it's done its job. You may be able to see the water
in there, just swish it around, there you go. In this case we actually ran out of
dishwashing tablets and put dishwashing liquid in the machine, and I think
they're very fine dishwashing liquid has managed to seep
through some of the seals, and that's made it into the bottom of the machine, which has
pushed up a little Styrofoam disc. Now obviously you need to make sure there's
not a bigger problem, you might have one of these hoses seals might have broken, I
think this guy over here is a sensor for how dirty the water is in the machine,
and it has a little rubber seal so maybe that's split and water seeped out
through there. But in this case it's pretty simple one, all you need to do is
clear out that little tray where the disk sits, clean up the disk,
and of course check in your kitchen if there's any water leaks
because you'll want to dry that out well before you put everything back in.
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