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Bosch appliance problems: what each one usually means.

Twenty-six of the things we are called out for, across nine appliances. Each page covers the likely causes cheapest first, what to check in five minutes, and the point at which it stops being worth doing yourself. Several of them will talk you out of booking a visit, which is the intention.

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Cheapest cause first on every page, because that is honestly the order they occur in.

The most common call
Bosch Dishwasher not draining in Miami

Water standing in the bottom of the tub after a cycle. Two of the five causes come out by hand without tools, which makes this the symptom most worth five minutes before booking anything.
- Standing water after every cycle
- A code in the twenties, or four flashing lights
- Dishes clean on top, wet and gritty below
What it usually means
Usually not a repair
Bosch Dishwasher not drying in Miami

Plastics coming out wet is how these machines are designed to behave, and it is the single most common reason somebody books a repair on this brand that they do not need. Glassware coming out wet is a different matter.
- Plastics wet, glass and steel dry
- Everything wet, including glass
- Drying noticeably worse than it used to be
What it usually means
The machine may lock itself out
Bosch Dishwasher leaking in Miami

Water on the floor, or a machine that has stopped and refuses to start. The leak protection on these dishwashers catches water in the base before it reaches your kitchen — which is why the first sign is usually a machine that will not run rather than a puddle.
- Machine dead with a leak code showing
- Water at the front edge of the door
- A damp cabinet base with no visible puddle
What it usually means
Film, grit or dishes still dirty
Bosch Dishwasher not cleaning properly in Miami

Dishes coming out gritty, cloudy or with food still on them. In a hard-water city a good share of this is scale and detergent rather than a failed part — and the machine will eventually tell you so with a code of its own.
- Grit left in glasses and cups
- A white film on everything
- Food still on the lower rack
What it usually means
Often the door, not the machine
Bosch Dishwasher will not start in Miami

A machine that does nothing, starts and stops, or lights up and never fills. Door and power account for most of these, and both are worth checking before anything is booked.
- No lights at all
- Lights on but nothing happens
- Starts, then stops within a minute
What it usually means
Almost always maintenance
Bosch Dishwasher smells in Miami

A smell when the door opens, or one that arrives on the dishes. Rarely a repair, usually a filter, and occasionally a drain hose installed in a way that lets the sink back into the machine.
- A stale smell when the door opens
- A smell that transfers to clean dishes
- Worse after the machine sits unused
What it usually means
Diagnosed by behavior
Bosch Refrigerator not cooling in Miami

A refrigerator running warm, cooling unevenly, or holding overnight and drifting by day. This equipment publishes almost no codes, so what it is doing matters more here than on anything else on this site.
- One compartment warm, the other fine
- Compressor running almost constantly
- Frost building at the back of the freezer
What it usually means
Slow before it stops
Bosch Ice maker not making ice in Miami

No ice, or a bin that never fills. Production halves over weeks before it stops altogether, and almost every cause is cheaper to fix while the machine is still limping along.
- Half the ice it used to make
- Stopped completely after a filter change
- Ice tastes or smells wrong
What it usually means
Splits the problem usefully
Bosch Water dispenser not working in Miami

No water at the dispenser, a trickle where there was a stream, or a dispenser that runs on when you let go. Whether the ice maker still works is the fastest way to narrow this.
- Nothing at all from the dispenser
- A trickle instead of a stream
- Ice still working, water not
What it usually means
Some of it is normal
Bosch Refrigerator making noise in Miami

Buzzing, clicking, gurgling or a rattle that comes and goes. Several of these noises are the appliance working — and one of them is a fan that is about to cost you a warm refrigerator.
- A rattle or scraping that comes and goes
- Loud humming that has got worse
- Clicking every few minutes
What it usually means
There is a filter you can open
Bosch Washer not draining in Miami

A cycle that stops with water in the drum, or clothes left soaking because the machine never got to the spin. There is a pump filter behind a flap at the front of these machines, and almost nobody knows it is there.
- Cycle stops with water in the drum
- Will not spin because it has not drained
- A code beginning E:30 or E:36
What it usually means
Often the load, not the machine
Bosch Washer not spinning in Miami

Clothes soaking at the end of a cycle, or a spin that starts, slows and gives up. On a compact drum an uneven load stops the spin far more often than a failed part does.
- Clothes wet at the end of the cycle
- Spin starts, slows and stops
- Only happens with big items
What it usually means
Urgent above the ground floor
Bosch Washer leaking in Miami

Water under the machine, at the door, or behind it. In a closet on the fourteenth floor a small leak is somebody else's ceiling, which changes how quickly it is worth acting.
- Water on the floor in front
- Water only during the fill
- The machine has stopped over water in its base
What it usually means
Door, power or supply
Bosch Washer will not start in Miami

A machine that does nothing, or one that lights up and never fills. The door lock and the water supply account for most of it, and both are worth a minute before booking.
- No response at all
- Lights on but the cycle never begins
- Starts, then stops without filling
What it usually means
Air first, then heat
Bosch Dryer not heating in Miami

A dryer that runs cool, or one that stops with a heating code. On a condensation dryer, a blocked air path imitates a dead heating element closely enough that it is always checked first.
- Runs a full cycle, clothes still damp
- No warmth at all in the drum
- Stops early with a code
What it usually means
Longer is by design
Bosch Dryer taking too long in Miami

A cycle that runs for hours, or a load that needs a second run. These dryers are slower than vented American machines on purpose — but there is a difference between slower and not working, and it is measurable.
- Two cycles to dry one load
- Cycle time much longer than it used to be
- Clothes hot but still damp
What it usually means
Door, power or a full tank
Bosch Dryer will not start in Miami

A dryer that does nothing, or one that stops immediately. On a condensation machine there is one cause that does not exist on other dryers: a condensate tank that is full and has not been emptied.
- No response at all
- Starts and stops within seconds
- A tank or drain warning showing
What it usually means
Never hot, or never hot enough
Bosch Oven not heating in Miami

An oven that never warms up, or one that heats but sits well below the temperature it was set to. Those are different problems with different parts and quite different figures.
- No heat at all
- Runs cool by a consistent amount
- Takes far longer to preheat than it used to
What it usually means
After a self-clean cycle
Bosch Oven door locked shut in Miami

A door that locked for self-clean and has not released. Most of them open once the cavity is genuinely cold — and the ones that do not have a published code of their own, which tells you how often this happens.
- Locked since a self-clean cycle
- Lock icon showing with the oven cold
- A grinding noise from the lock
What it usually means
Usually the fan
Bosch Oven baking unevenly in Miami

One side browning faster than the other, a tray that has to be turned halfway, or results that changed without the recipe changing. On a convection oven this is the fan more often than an element.
- One side of the tray browner than the other
- Top browning before the middle cooks
- Results changed with no change in method
What it usually means
Often moisture, not electronics
Bosch Oven controls not responding in Miami

A touch panel that ignores you, responds to the wrong key, or works intermittently. Condensation on the glass causes this far more often than a failed control, and it has a published code of its own.
- Panel ignores touches entirely
- The wrong function starts
- Works when cold, not when cooking
What it usually means
Usually protection working
Bosch Cooktop zone switching itself off in Miami

A zone that cuts out under load, or a cooktop that shuts down after a while at high power. Almost every version of this is a protection doing its job, and each one has a published code that says which.
- Cuts out after twenty minutes on high
- All zones off at once
- Comes back after it cools
What it usually means
Check the lock first
Bosch Cooktop controls locked or unresponsive in Miami

A cooktop that beeps and refuses, or does nothing at all. The panel lock engages by accident constantly — from a wet cloth, a boil-over or a pan set down on the touch keys — and clearing it takes four seconds.
- Beeps but nothing happens
- A lock symbol on the display
- Everything flashing at once
What it usually means
One burner or all of them
Bosch Gas burner will not light in Miami

Igniters clicking without catching, a burner that lights and goes out, or a flame that has turned yellow. Whether it is one burner or every burner is the fastest diagnostic on this site.
- Clicks but does not catch
- Lights, then goes out when released
- A yellow or lifting flame
What it usually means
Sometimes it is the pan
Bosch Induction cooktop not recognizing the pan in Miami

A zone that beeps and gives up, shows a pan symbol, or heats one pan and not another. On induction the cookware is part of the appliance, and a good share of these calls end with a magnet test rather than a repair.
- Beeps and switches off after a few seconds
- Works with one pan, not another
- A pan symbol on the display
What it usually means
The shortest list on the site
Bosch Range hood not working in Miami

A fan that will not run, one stuck on a single speed, lights that have gone, or a hood that sounds healthy and moves nothing. Four different problems, and you can tell them apart from the kitchen floor.
- Fan does not run at all
- Runs but pulls almost nothing
- Lights out or flickering
What it usually means

What makes this brand different

This manufacturer tells you what its codes mean.

Most appliance makers publish a code and leave you to find out what it stands for. This one publishes a cause and a set of steps for nearly every code it has — which makes these appliances unusually approachable, and creates a specific trap: one published cause often covers a whole circuit. A drain code covers a filter, a pump, a loose cover, a kinked hose and an air gap, and four of those five are not a repair at all.

So the code gets you to the right page quickly. What it does not do is finish the diagnosis, and that is the part these pages are for.

The full list of codes

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Before you call anybody

Four things that are free and often enough

Every symptom page here opens with one of these. This badge covers laundry as well as the kitchen, and the filter checks below end more calls than anything else on the list.

By appliance

Start from the machine instead

Nine kinds of appliance under one badge, laundry included, and a washer and a wall oven share nothing but the name on the front. Each page carries the failures that belong to that machine.

100 · 300 · 500 · 800 · Benchmark
Dishwashers

The appliance this brand is known for, and the one we are called out to most. Bosch dishwashers dry with condensation rather than a heating element and protect themselves with a leak sensor in the base, so two of the commonest complaints about them are the design working as intended — and two more are not.
- Water left standing in the tub
- E15 and the leak protection tripping
- Plastics coming out wet
Dishwasher repair
36" · 30" · 24" · counter-depth
Refrigerators

French door, bottom freezer and counter-depth units, panel-ready and free-standing. Bosch refrigerators publish almost no error codes, so this is equipment you diagnose by what it is doing rather than by what it is displaying.
- Not holding temperature
- Ice maker slowing or stopping
- Water and dispenser problems
Refrigerator repair
24" compact · stackable
Washers

Bosch laundry in this market is almost always the 24-inch compact pair, stacked in a closet or tucked under a counter. That is a different machine from a full-size American washer and a different job to reach — and it is why so much of what we are called out to here is a drain, a filter or a load that will not balance.
- Will not drain or will not spin
- Stopping mid-cycle on a code
- Walking, banging or refusing to balance
Washer repair
24" compact · ventless
Dryers

The compact dryers are condensation machines — they take the water out of the air and put it down the drain rather than pushing it outside. Which is why they can live in a closet with no duct at all, and why "it takes forever to dry" is a different conversation on one of these than on a vented American dryer.
- Taking two cycles to dry a load
- Not heating at all
- Lint filter and condenser maintenance
Dryer repair
30" · 24" · single, double, speed & steam
Wall ovens

Built-in wall ovens, single and double, plus the speed ovens and steam ovens that share the same cavity opening. These are trimmed into a cabinet run and wired to their own circuit, so an oven that has stopped is often an oven that has to come out before anyone can say why.
- Not heating or not holding temperature
- Door locked after a self-clean cycle
- Touch panel unresponsive
Oven repair
Gas · dual-fuel · electric · induction
Ranges

Slide-in and free-standing ranges in all four fuel configurations. A range is two appliances in one chassis — a cooktop and an oven that share a control board — and knowing which half is misbehaving is most of the diagnosis.
- Burners that will not light or hold
- Oven not reaching temperature
- Display codes that cover both halves
Range repair
Induction · gas · electric · 24"–36"
Cooktops & rangetops

Induction, gas and radiant electric cooktops, plus the professional rangetops. Most of what an induction top does when something is wrong is protect itself — it switches a zone off, shows a code and waits — and telling that apart from a failure saves a great many visits.
- A zone switching itself off mid-cook
- Controls locked or unresponsive
- Codes about supply voltage
Cooktop repair
Under-cabinet · wall · island · insert
Range hoods

Under-cabinet, wall-mounted, island and insert hoods. A hood has a motor, a light, a set of filters and — on the connected models — a link to the cooktop below it, and there are only so many things on that list. Which makes it the one appliance here where the diagnosis is usually quick.
- Fan not running or running at one speed
- Lights out or flickering
- Little suction despite a working fan
Range hood repair
Built into the refrigerator, not beside it
Wine & beverage storage

On this brand, wine storage is a drawer inside the refrigerator rather than a cabinet of its own — a glass-fronted compartment with its own preset temperatures for reds, whites and cans. Which means a wine problem here is usually a refrigerator problem wearing a different label.
- A drawer running warm while the rest is fine
- Drawer lighting and the glass front
- Runners, seals and a drawer that will not sit square
Wine cooler repair

If there is something on the display

Start from the code instead

A number on the display narrows a repair to one subsystem before anybody opens anything. Each code page carries the maker’s own wording and what it usually turns out to be.

Bosch dishwasher error code E01

Bosch error code E01: the control board cannot drive the heat pump motor. What the code covers, what to check first, and what it does not tell you — on dishwashers.
What this code means
Bosch dishwasher error code E02

Bosch error code E02: a relay on the main control board is not switching as it should. What the code covers, what to check first, and what it does not tell you — on dishwashers.
What this code means
Bosch error code E04

Bosch error code E04: the machine failed its own start-up check on the heating electronics. What the code covers, what to check first, and what it does not tell you — on dishwashers.
What this code means
Bosch error code E05

Bosch error code E05: the circuit that switches water between the spray arms is not responding. What the code covers, what to check first, and what it does not tell you — on dishwashers.
What this code means
Bosch dishwasher error code E06

Bosch error code E06: the machine cannot confirm the door is closed. What the code covers, what to check first, and what it does not tell you — on dishwashers.
What this code means
Bosch error code E07

Bosch error code E07: the fan in the mineral drying system has stopped. What the code covers, what to check first, and what it does not tell you — on dishwashers.
What this code means
Bosch error code E09

Bosch error code E09: the heater inside the heat pump is not behaving as the control expects. What the code covers, what to check first, and what it does not tell you — on dishwashers.
What this code means
Bosch error code E10

Bosch error code E10: the heater in the mineral drying chamber is not responding. What the code covers, what to check first, and what it does not tell you — on dishwashers.
What this code means
Bosch error code E12

Bosch error code E12: limescale has built up in the heat pump. What the code covers, what to check first, and what it does not tell you — on dishwashers.
What this code means

Not on the list?

Describe it in your own words.

Twenty-six pages does not cover everything an appliance can do. Intermittent behavior, a noise that only happens sometimes, something that has never worked properly since the day it was installed — those are the calls where a description in plain language is worth more than a code.

Call 1-11-111-11, or use the form above and tell us what it is doing and when it started.

Call (305) 783-3552 Describe it in the form

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What people ask us first

What is the single most useful thing I can send you?

A photograph of the display with the code on it, and the model number from the plate. Codes clear themselves, and the photograph is often the only record left by the time anyone arrives.

How many of these can I fix myself?

More than on most brands. Dishwasher filters and drain pump covers, washer pump filters, dryer lint filters, burner caps and control locks are all designed to be handled by the owner, and between them they are behind a large share of the calls we take.

Will you tell me if I do not need a visit?

Yes, and we do it regularly. Wet plastics in the dishwasher, a long dryer cycle and a cooktop zone that switched itself off are all normal behavior, and three of these pages exist mainly to say so.

My appliance is doing two of these at once.

Worth saying — two symptoms together often narrow the diagnosis faster than either one alone. A refrigerator that is warm and noisy is a more specific problem than one that is only warm.

Everything started after a power cut.

Common here in storm season. Five minutes genuinely off at the breaker clears a fair number of them. The ones it does not clear often have real surge damage, and that timing is worth telling us.

In more detail

Bosch refrigerator problems, and the rest of what people describe

Start from the behavior, not from the part

Twenty-six behaviors are written out on this site, each in the words people actually use when they call. That is deliberate. Somebody with a warm refrigerator does not know whether they have a condenser, a fan, a damper or a board, and asking them to choose is how the wrong part ends up on the van.

Half of what gets reported is the appliance working as designed

Worth saying plainly, because it saves a visit. A Bosch dishwasher dries by condensation rather than with a heating element, so plastics come out damp and that is the machine doing what it was built to do. A compact dryer takes longer than the full-size American machine it replaced, for the same reason. A refrigerator that runs almost continuously in August in Miami is not failing; it is a cabinet keeping its set point in a room that is fighting it.

Where the same description means different repairs

“Not draining” is the clearest case. On a dishwasher it is the filter, the pump, the hose or a disposal knockout plug nobody removed at installation. On a washer it is the pump filter behind the front flap, which most owners do not know exists. Same words, four parts, and a wide range of prices – which is why the pages here separate what the appliance is doing from what it is likely to be.

What South Florida contributes

Storm season brings a run of electronics complaints that clear on their own: five minutes genuinely off at the breaker resolves a fair share of them, and it is worth trying before booking anything. Hard water films glassware and scales a heat pump. Salt air, near the water, reaches burner caps, igniters and condenser coils years earlier than the same machine would inland.

If your problem is not on the list

Describe it in your own words when you get in touch. The list is what we are asked about most often, not the limit of what we look at, and a sentence about what the appliance is doing is enough to start.

Tell us what it is doing, and what the display says.

With the model number and a photograph of the code, we can usually tell you the likely cause and the range before anyone drives anywhere.

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This article is based on:

Official manufacturer documentation
Internal repair procedures
Technician repair history
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Bosch appliance problems: what each one usually means.

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Bosch Dishwasher not draining in Miami

Bosch Dishwasher not drying in Miami

Bosch Dishwasher leaking in Miami

Bosch Dishwasher not cleaning properly in Miami

Bosch Dishwasher will not start in Miami

Bosch Dishwasher smells in Miami

Bosch Refrigerator not cooling in Miami

Bosch Ice maker not making ice in Miami

Bosch Water dispenser not working in Miami

Bosch Refrigerator making noise in Miami

Bosch Washer not draining in Miami

Bosch Washer not spinning in Miami

Bosch Washer leaking in Miami

Bosch Washer will not start in Miami

Bosch Dryer not heating in Miami

Bosch Dryer taking too long in Miami

Bosch Dryer will not start in Miami

Bosch Oven not heating in Miami

Bosch Oven door locked shut in Miami

Bosch Oven baking unevenly in Miami

Bosch Oven controls not responding in Miami

Bosch Cooktop zone switching itself off in Miami

Bosch Cooktop controls locked or unresponsive in Miami

Bosch Gas burner will not light in Miami

Bosch Induction cooktop not recognizing the pan in Miami

Bosch Range hood not working in Miami

Dishwashers

Refrigerators

Washers

Dryers

Wall ovens

Ranges

Cooktops & rangetops

Range hoods

Wine & beverage storage

Bosch dishwasher error code E01

Bosch dishwasher error code E02

Bosch error code E04

Bosch error code E05

Bosch dishwasher error code E06

Bosch error code E07

Bosch error code E09

Bosch error code E10

Bosch error code E12