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title: "Washer error code E41"
description: "Electrolux washer error code E41: The control will not start because it is not being told the door is shut."
url: "https://electroluxmiami.support/error-codes/washer-e41/"
date_modified: "2026-09-11"
Appliance type: "Washers"
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# Washer error code E41

### What E41 means on this make

The control will not start because it is not being told the door is shut. Note the wording of the maker’s own line — the board *thinks* the switch is open — because that is the whole diagnosis in one word: this code is about the signal, not about the door. The ordinary cause is genuinely a door that is not latched, and the second most ordinary is a towel corner in the seal doing an excellent impression of a closed door. After that it is the switch, or the wire to it, and the click you can hear from a step away tells you which half you are in.

### 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 deliberately, listening for the click. A door that seats without clicking is the failure, not the symptom.
- Run a hand around the whole seal for a corner of fabric. On a front loader this is the single most common cause and the easiest to miss.
- Look at the striker on the door and the latch on the cabinet for damage or a loose screw — the maker names both.
- If the door clicks shut and the code stands, the switch or its harness 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.

Error Code E41 indicates the washing machine control board thinks the door switch is open.

What this one means

What E41 means on this make

The control will not start because it is not being told the door is shut. Note the wording of the maker’s own line — the board *thinks* the switch is open — because that is the whole diagnosis in one word: this code is about the signal, not about the door. The ordinary cause is genuinely a door that is not latched, and the second most ordinary is a towel corner in the seal doing an excellent impression of a closed door. After that it is the switch, or the wire to it, and the click you can hear from a step away tells you which half you are in.

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 deliberately, listening for the click. A door that seats without clicking is the failure, not the symptom.

Run a hand around the whole seal for a corner of fabric. On a front loader this is the single most common cause and the easiest to miss.

Look at the striker on the door and the latch on the cabinet for damage or a loose screw — the maker names both.

If the door clicks shut and the code stands, the switch or its harness 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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