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title: "Dishwasher error code FA"
description: "Asko dishwasher error code FA: The sensor that judges how dirty the water is has stopped reporting sensibly."
url: "https://askomiami.support/error-codes/dishwasher-fa/"
date_modified: "2026-09-13"
Appliance type: "Dishwashers"
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# Dishwasher error code FA

### What FA means on this make

The sensor that judges how dirty the water is has stopped reporting sensibly. It never shows in the kitchen on this generation, and the machine keeps washing: without it the program simply stops adapting the rinse to the load and runs its default instead. Worth fixing on a machine you intend to keep, and not urgent on one you do not.

### 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

DW20.1 platform, 3000-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

- Nothing to check yourself — this one is read out of the service menu.
- The sensor is a part and the job is straightforward; it is a judgment call about the age of the machine rather than a safety matter.

### 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) 363-1406](tel:+13053631406) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything.

DW20.1 platform, 3000-series

What this one means

What FA means on this make

The sensor that judges how dirty the water is has stopped reporting sensibly. It never shows in the kitchen on this generation, and the machine keeps washing: without it the program simply stops adapting the rinse to the load and runs its default instead. Worth fixing on a machine you intend to keep, and not urgent on one you do not.

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

DW20.1 platform, 3000-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

Nothing to check yourself — this one is read out of the service menu.

The sensor is a part and the job is straightforward; it is a judgment call about the age of the machine rather than a safety matter.

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](tel:+13053631406) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything.

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