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title: "Dryer error code E 42"
description: "Electrolux dryer error code E 42: The dryer will not run because it is not being told its door is shut."
url: "https://electroluxmiami.support/error-codes/dryer-e-42/"
date_modified: "2026-09-11"
Appliance type: "Dryers"
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# Dryer error code E 42

### What E 42 means on this make

The dryer will not run because it is not being told its door is shut. Read it with the appliance in mind: the washer of this make publishes E42 for a door lock that failed to engage, and this is a plain open door on a machine that has no lock at all. A dryer door holds on a catch and a switch, and the switch is a small plunger the door presses. What stops it is nearly always mechanical — a sheet caught in the opening, a catch worn round, or a door that has dropped a millimeter on its hinge over ten years of being closed with a hip.

### The other ways this one is printed

E 42 · E42

The same condition is printed differently on different panels of the same make, and every spelling the maker publishes for it is above. Whichever of them you searched for, this is the right page.

### 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

- Open the door and close it firmly, watching that nothing is caught in the opening.
- Press the door switch plunger with a finger and listen for the click. No click is the answer.
- Look at the catch and the strike for wear. A dropped door can be lifted back by its hinge screws more often than people expect.
- If the door closes properly and the machine still says the door is open, the switch or its wire is the visit.

### Where this goes next

The job this usually becomes is [diagnostic visit](/services/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](tel:+13059129018) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything.

Door Open. Check to make sure door is not blocked and is fully closed.

What this one means

What E 42 means on this make

The dryer will not run because it is not being told its door is shut. Read it with the appliance in mind: the washer of this make publishes E42 for a door lock that failed to engage, and this is a plain open door on a machine that has no lock at all. A dryer door holds on a catch and a switch, and the switch is a small plunger the door presses. What stops it is nearly always mechanical — a sheet caught in the opening, a catch worn round, or a door that has dropped a millimeter on its hinge over ten years of being closed with a hip.

The other ways this one is printed

E 42 · E42

The same condition is printed differently on different panels of the same make, and every spelling the maker publishes for it is above. Whichever of them you searched for, this is the right page.

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

Open the door and close it firmly, watching that nothing is caught in the opening.

Press the door switch plunger with a finger and listen for the click. No click is the answer.

Look at the catch and the strike for wear. A dropped door can be lifted back by its hinge screws more often than people expect.

If the door closes properly and the machine still says the door is open, the switch or its wire is the visit.

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](tel:+13059129018) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything.

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