--- title: "Dishwasher will not start" description: "Electrolux dishwasher will not start — two of this maker's three dishwasher codes are not problems at all, and both of them present exactly like a machine…" url: "https://electroluxmiami.support/symptoms/dishwasher-will-not-start/" date_modified: "2026-09-11" Appliance type: "Dishwashers" --- # Electrolux dishwasher will not start ### What to do in the next ten minutes Read the display. If it shows a number between 1 and 24 counting down hourly, press cancel once — that is the delay start. If it shows Hd or HO it is heating water and it will start on its own. Otherwise press the door firmly closed and try again. ### Two of three codes are modes It is unusual and it is worth stating plainly: this maker publishes three dishwasher codes and only one of them, i40, reports something wrong. The other two describe the machine doing exactly what it was asked to do. We would rather you found that here than paid for a visit to be told it, which is why this page leads with the display rather than with the mechanism. The delay start is running One press of cancel drops it. Two cancels the cycle and drains; three shuts the machine down. Knowing the presses do different things is what stops people getting nowhere. The machine is waiting for hot water One to two minutes for every degree of rise is the maker's own arithmetic. From a cold line that is genuinely half an hour. The door latch is not closing its switch A door that feels shut and is not gives a no-start with no other symptom at all. Read the number before assuming it is a code Between 1 and 24 and counting down by the hour is the delay and nothing else. Press the door and retry Starting when held is the latch, and no board is involved. Run the kitchen tap hot first It removes most of an Hd delay before it begins. The panel lights up and nothing happens What it usually means A number from 1 to 24 is the delay start, not an error Hd is the machine heating water before it will wash The latch has to close a switch before anything runs What to do in the next ten minutes Read the display. If it shows a number between 1 and 24 counting down hourly, press cancel once — that is the delay start. If it shows Hd or HO it is heating water and it will start on its own. Otherwise press the door firmly closed and try again. Two of three codes are modes It is unusual and it is worth stating plainly: this maker publishes three dishwasher codes and only one of them, i40, reports something wrong. The other two describe the machine doing exactly what it was asked to do. We would rather you found that here than paid for a visit to be told it, which is why this page leads with the display rather than with the mechanism. ### It used to start immediately and now it waits. Check whether a delay option has been left selected — they persist between cycles on some models. Otherwise a longer Hd delay usually means the water reaching the machine is colder, which is plumbing rather than appliance. ### Nothing lights up at all. That is different and it is not on this page. No display at all is power, the door switch circuit, or the control — and it is worth booking rather than troubleshooting. --- **[Read full article: Dishwasher will not start](https://electroluxmiami.support/symptoms/dishwasher-will-not-start/)**