Error code
Dishwasher error code i40
Electrolux dishwasher error code i40: The only one of this make's three dishwasher codes that reports an actual failure, and the fix is maintenance rather than parts. Which machines can raise it, what the maker publishes about it, and what to do next.
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What we can confirm
Code i40, from the manufacturer's own documentation
A code is only meaningful together with the machine showing it — the same digits mean different things on different equipment.
The code
i40
The only one of this make's three dishwasher codes that reports an actual failure, and the fix is maintenance rather than parts. The sump is the well under the lower rack where water collects before the pump takes it, and the filter and glass trap sit in it to keep solids out of the impeller. When they load up, the machine cannot move water fast enough and says so. What fills them here is worth naming: rinse-free modern detergents and scraping less than people used to, plus the hard water this county runs on, which leaves scale that holds everything else.
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What it narrows down to
Error code i40 indicates a clogged filter or sump. This occurs when food soils have built up in the sump; try cleaning out the glass trap and re-run the unit.
Diagnostic
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On the same appliance
What else belongs to the dishwashers
On this make a code belongs to the appliance rather than to a product line. These are the other conditions this machine can display, and the models that can show this one — a display often has more than one thing to say, and the model number decides what any of it costs to put right.
Other codes this appliance can display
Error Code 01-24 indicates that the delay option has been enabled and will begin the cycle once the displayed time reaches 0. Press or hold the cancel button. Pressing cancel a second time will cancel the selected cycle and the unit will start a drain routine. Pressing cancel a third time will cancel the drain routine and the unit will shut off.
Error Code Hd or HO indicates the unit is in the "Heat Delay" or "Heater On" mode. This delay is to allow the dishwasher to heat the water to the optimal temperature for best performance. NOTE: The colder the water is, the longer the delay time will take to heat the water to the proper temperature. This normally is approximately 1 to 2 min. for each degree in temperature rise.
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In more detail
About Dishwasher error code i40
What i40 means on this make
The only one of this make's three dishwasher codes that reports an actual failure, and the fix is maintenance rather than parts. The sump is the well under the lower rack where water collects before the pump takes it, and the filter and glass trap sit in it to keep solids out of the impeller. When they load up, the machine cannot move water fast enough and says so. What fills them here is worth naming: rinse-free modern detergents and scraping less than people used to, plus the hard water this county runs on, which leaves scale that holds everything else.
Where this appears, and why not to clear it
On the appliance's own display, as a short single code — a letter and a number, or two letters. Nothing alternates and nothing arrives in halves on this make, so what the panel shows is the whole of it. Photograph it before you cut the power. This maker's own answer to most of these is thirty seconds at the breaker, and that is worth following once — but a display that has been cleared has taken the evidence with it, and there is no way to ask the machine for it again.
What to do about it
- Pull the lower rack and lift out the filter assembly — on these machines it twists out by hand with no tools.
- Clear the glass trap, which is the flat plate beside the filter, and rinse both under a hot tap. The maker names the glass trap specifically.
- Look into the empty sump for standing water. Water still sitting there with the filter out points past the filter, at the pump or the drain hose.
- Refit both properly — a filter that is not fully seated lets solids straight through — and run a cycle empty before judging it.
Where this goes next
The job this usually becomes is diagnostic visit, and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes, reminders and settings rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call (305) 912-9018 and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything.
This article is based on:
- Official manufacturer documentation
- Internal repair procedures
- Technician repair history
- Company quality standards