"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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Situation., 18 month old Hotpoint BF72 dishwasher.
Won't do anything except cme up with Error code E8.

Hotpioint tell me that 'since I didn't take out extended warranty,
that's 89 quid for a bloke to call, plus parts, cos E8 isn't a user
fixable fault, and I can't tell you what it means'

I am assuming that there is a bit of software that says 'IF NOT extended
warranty and IF warranty period display E8 and stop working' :-)

And the bloke comes down and moves a DIP SWITCH or presses a combination
of buttons, and it all starts working again in 3 minutes :-)

What are my options here?

Does anyone know what it means?

Its been pretty crap ever since I had it frankly, and I am totally
underimpressed with its ability to actually wash dishes, but it does a
fair job on coffee cups.




Take on board the fact that dishwashers are just about the most
environmentally un-friendly devices ever to be installed in kitchens. Scrap
it and explain to the,wife, mother, girlfriend,partner or whatever that the
Green thing to do is to wash up by hand and if pressed you would be willing
to supervise or on a good day even be prepared to dry or put away. As you
will have observed putting away is something that dishwashers are very bad
at, but blockages and flooding they take in their stride.

Richard.