Error code
LG-built Kenmore dryer error code d80
LG wrote this code, not Kenmore. On a dryer wearing this badge, d80 means: LG's own label is DUCT BLOCK ERROR, and the number is roughly how blocked it is. LG's manual prints these as `d8O`, `dGO`, `dGs` and `d7s` because of
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What we can confirm
Code d80, 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
d80
LG's own label is DUCT BLOCK ERROR, and the number is roughly how blocked it is. LG's manual prints these as `d8O`, `dGO`, `dGs` and `d7s` because of how a seven-segment display draws the digits — no LG document prints them with plain numerals.
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What it narrows down to
LG's own label is DUCT BLOCK ERROR, and the
What you are probably seeing
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What it looks like from the kitchen
The symptom this code usually arrives with
A code names the subsystem; the symptom is what sent you to look at the display in the first place. That page says what it usually turns out to be, cheapest cause first.
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A full cycle later and the load is still damp Dryer not drying
The most useful thing we can tell you about a dryer in South Florida is that this is usually the duct rather than the dryer. Vent runs here are longer, flatter and wetter than the ones these machines were designed around, and every builder publishes a code for a blocked one.
- The vent is the answer more often than any part
- All three builders publish a restricted-airflow code
- It is free to test at the outside hood
On the same appliance
What else belongs to the dryers
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
Restricted air flow
A problem with the heater or the heater relays
Low or no line voltage
Whirlpool's wording: five consecutive loads were dried without the
Whirlpool identifies this as an inlet thermistor problem —
Whirlpool's wording: an issue with the control unit or
An issue with the user interface or its wiring
A problem with the main control board, the touchpad,
A problem with the motor, the control, or the wiring between them
A power failure interrupted the drying cycle
The control lock is on
Whirlpool's wording: the door has not been completely closed
The same digits mean different things on different equipment. Search the full code list
In more detail
About LG-built Kenmore dryer error code d80
Whose code this actually is
Kenmore did not write d80, because Kenmore has never built an appliance. This one is LG's, and it appears on the dryer that LG built and Sears sold under the Kenmore badge. Whirlpool, LG and Frigidaire all built dryers for this badge, and all three publish short two-character codes, so a lookup that skips the prefix is a coin toss dressed as an answer.
What it means
LG's own label is DUCT BLOCK ERROR, and the number is roughly how blocked it is. LG's manual prints these as `d8O`, `dGO`, `dGs` and `d7s` because of how a seven-segment display draws the digits — no LG document prints them with plain numerals.
Which Kenmore models can raise it
The Kenmore dryer whose model number begins 796 — the three digits before the period on the rating plate. Those digits are LG's, which is why LG's table is the one that applies to d80 and no other manufacturer's does.
The other ways it may be written
The same condition is published under more than one label, because it has been carried across generations of the appliance and because a segment display draws some characters oddly: d90, d95, d75, d8O, dGO, dGs, d7s. They are the same finding and they lead to the same place.
Worth trying yourself, in this order
- Clean the lint screen, then check the duct end to end.
- This is the most useful code on a dryer in South Florida, because long flat runs here block far sooner than the maker assumes.
- It is a duct cleaning, not a part.
Where this usually goes
The job this most often becomes is dryer vent cleaning, and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. A Kenmore dryer in South Florida is almost always on a long horizontal duct carrying humid air, and that duct is behind more heat and airflow codes here than any component inside the machine. Photograph the display before you cut the power: a reset clears d80, and on a Kenmore the characters plus three digits off the plate are most of the diagnosis.
Where this meaning came from
LG's own documentation: LG Owner's Manual — WashTower WKEX200H*A / WKGX201H*A, P/No. MFL71485405. Kenmore publishes none of its own, which is why every entry on this site names the manufacturer's document instead.
This article is based on:
- Official manufacturer documentation
- Internal repair procedures
- Technician repair history
- Company quality standards