If your dishwasher's washing cycle doesn't start or it discontinues in the middle of a
cycle you might have seen an error code show up on your control panel 4E. Now different brands
will show different codes but it's for the same problem and it's a very similar fix
g'day i'm Kent, the problem is the dishwasher is not going to wash any dishes while it's got that Error Code on it
and for a house full of people and lots of dirty dishes that's no good for us but before we panic
and go out and buy a new machine or spend a bunch of money with a service technician or
a plumber let's do some troubleshooting and see if we can fix this ourselves
okay first up, checking the water supply hose. Now a 4e, and sometimes it's a 4c error code that shows up
here is because of an interruption to water supply. I've heard the most common reason is because of a
'kinked hose' so have a look at your hose follow it through all the way to the machine, now nothing's
changed in the installation of this machine so I don't think that that's going to be the problem
but it's the first and it's the easiest thing to check. All right number 2 it could be just
that there's been some works in the area and they've turned off the water and it's interrupted
the whole water supply to the house including the machine, so check the water supply that you've got.
The dishwasher is actually using the same plumbing as the sink we've got good water
pressure at the sink so I don't think that's the problem, and check that your tap's not been turned
off for some reason, taps on! Okay, number 3 your dishwasher might not be filling with water
because your water inlet valve's filter screens are blocked, to check this turn off the tap and
remove the hose from the water supply, the water inlet hose is normally disconnected from here
but we do have a little extension pipe which actually means ours is here I think it's just
because the dishwasher is a little bit further away from the tap, now with that turned off we can
undo this, be ready with an old towel or something because some water will run out. Our little filters
look pretty good so i don't think that's going to be the problem. The next thing to try is to....
the next thing to try is... get out!
Number 4, the next thing to do is to empty the drip tray which is like an overflow mechanism or a safety sort of circuit with a dishwasher, so we're going to
need to pull the dishwasher out from here tilting it over will drain the water from
the anti-flood collection tray at the bottom of the dishwasher, so once you've drained the water
the float switch no longer detects water and it'll work again. if you've done those
four checks and it hasn't solved your issue, it means that you've got a faulty water inlet valve!
If your machine was working just fine and then it started showing that 4e error, then that's
easy we just need to replace this item. So i've gone ahead and gone on Amazon and spent
$40-$50 on a replacement 'water inlet valve' or 'water inlet hose' that's one-tenth the
price of a quote that I received from a local appliance technician, and once
you've bought your replacement water inlet valve installation is pretty easy, let's do it together.
And that's running fine, you can probably hear it whirring away in the background but it's
doing a load of dishes... Fantastic! So that was going to cost me $457
with the technician to come and do that job that we just did, or if I was to replace this
five-year-old dishwasher with one exactly the same it's about $600 AUD (Australian)
So I think we've done very well that's definitely a job that you can do yourself
just follow those steps, get it repaired and then throw away your dish brush.
If you like this kind of content i've got a couple more videos lined up for you just here and i'll see you there.