Error code
Dishwasher error code F:12
Asko dishwasher error code F:12: This is the DW Outdoor scheme, written with a colon, and it is not the indoor list. 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 F:12, 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
F:12
This is the DW Outdoor scheme, written with a colon, and it is not the indoor list. The same digits appear on the current display machines meaning something else — reading one against the other is how the wrong part gets ordered on this make. On the indoor machines F12 is a failure to fill; here it is the reverse. The base float or the level sensor has seen more water than the program asked for and the machine has stopped to protect itself.
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What it narrows down to
Overfilling — too much water in the machine.
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
Water never rose five degrees in ten minutes, so the machine gave up on heating.
Overfilling — either the pressure sensor or the float says there is too much water.
Thermistor open circuit, or the water read above eighty degrees.
Water intake failed — the flow meter never counted what the program expected.
Inlet valve leaking — water is arriving while the valve is switched off.
Pressure sensor output above 4.8 volts — the control will not use the reading.
Not emptied after two minutes of pumping.
Blocked filter — the pressure sensor saw the level fall too low during the final rinse.
Circulation pressure too low or too high.
Turbidity sensor — indicated in the service menu only.
Spray arm divider — its position contact is stuck open or stuck closed.
Overfilling, first stage — more water in the machine than the program called for.
The same digits mean different things on different equipment. Search the full code list
In more detail
About Dishwasher error code F:12
What F:12 means on this make
This is the DW Outdoor scheme, written with a colon, and it is not the indoor list. The same digits appear on the current display machines meaning something else — reading one against the other is how the wrong part gets ordered on this make. On the indoor machines F12 is a failure to fill; here it is the reverse. The base float or the level sensor has seen more water than the program asked for and the machine has stopped to protect itself.
Where this appears, and which table it belongs to
On the appliance's own display. Photograph it before you cut the power: a display that has been cleared has taken the evidence with it, and there is no way to ask the machine for it again. Then check the model, because this make changed hands in 2016 and the two generations share no code string. The same characters mean different things on a Classic ERC oven, an ER-series range and a Modernist induction cooktop, and a meaning read off the wrong table is worse than no meaning at all.
Which machines this one applies to
DW Outdoor, DOD-series. The same number on a different appliance of this make is a different page and often a different repair, which is why this archive is organized by appliance rather than by number. This maker documents codes on 8 of the appliance types this site publishes — cooktop, dishwasher, dryer, microwave, oven, range, refrigerator and washer — and publishes none at all for commercial line, freezer, microwave, oven, range, range hood and refrigerator. Those appliances have symptom pages here and no code pages, which is the honest answer rather than borrowing a table from the machine next door.
What to do about it
- Close the supply valve and check the base tray for standing water.
- A wet tray is a leak and not a sensor problem — stop using the machine.
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) 363-1406 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