--- title: "There is no such thing as a Kenmore error code. Every one of these belongs to the company that built your appliance." description: "A Kenmore error codes list filed the only honest way: under Whirlpool, LG or Frigidaire, because the code belongs to whoever built the machine." url: "https://kenmoremiami.support/error-codes/" date_modified: "2026-09-01" --- # Error codes archive ## There is no such thing as a Kenmore error code. Every one of these belongs to the company that built your appliance. Kenmore manufactures nothing, so the characters on your display are Whirlpool's, LG's or Frigidaire's. Which one depends on the first three digits of your model number, and reading a code against the wrong company's table gives you a confident answer pointing at the wrong part. Every page here names the manufacturer, cites the document, and lists the prefixes it applies to. 93 — codes with a published meaning 39 — signals and indicators 3 — manufacturers covered ## Every code and signal, by manufacturer and appliance Filter by the company that built your appliance, then by the appliance itself. Both filters matter and the first one matters more. The manufacturer comes first on this make. The same characters appear in more than one company's table meaning unrelated things, and the three digits before the period on your rating plate are what tells them apart. ## The first three digits decide which table your code lives in 110 is Whirlpool, 796 is LG, 790 is Frigidaire. Their code schemes overlap enough to be convincing — several use F-and-number pairs for entirely unrelated conditions — so a code looked up on a page that does not name the manufacturer is a coin toss dressed as an answer. Read the prefix, then read the code. Ten seconds, and it decides whether the right component gets replaced. ## Where a manufacturer publishes nothing, so do we Roper publishes no codes at all, so a 911 range has no table here and is diagnosed by symptom. Whirlpool names fourteen refrigerator F-codes and never says what separates one from another, so there is one honest page saying that rather than fourteen invented ones. Frigidaire’s dryer code page exists with an empty body, and its SY and Er refrigerator codes are named and left undefined. Nobody publishes a cooktop, range hood or standalone ice maker table. A page that can say nothing is not a page. ## Four things that decide whether a lookup is even valid Photograph it first - Cutting power clears the display, and cutting power is the first thing most people try. - Include the digits after the letter — F3 and F8 are different families. - On machines with no display, count the flashes and the pauses. Find your prefix - The three digits before the period on the rating plate. - They name the manufacturer, and the manufacturer owns the code. - Kenmore, Elite and Pro tell you nothing useful here. Watch the case and the shape - LG prints duct-block codes as d8O and dGs because of how a segment display draws digits — no LG document prints d80 with plain numerals. - LG's own manual writes the control lock as [L where the help library writes CL. - On a two-character display LG shows LE first and then the 1, so LE and LE1 look alike for a moment and are different findings. Know what is not a problem - Power failure, control lock, Sabbath mode, demonstration mode and tub-clean reminders are all published as codes and none of them is a defect. - 39 of the entries on this page are signals rather than errors. - A number in a Frigidaire dishwasher display is a delay-start setting in hours. ## Then the behavior is the way in Some of the companies behind this nameplate issue no table whatsoever. Where that is true, the behavior is not a hint — it is the diagnosis. ## This is what the manufacturers publish, not everything the appliance can log Their own documentation says as much. Several of these companies keep service-level codes that never reach a consumer page, and one of them names fourteen refrigerator codes without defining any of them. Characters on your display that are absent from this page are not imaginary — they are undocumented publicly, and their meaning has to be established at the appliance. Give us three digits from the plate and a description of the behavior, and we will say what it commonly proves to be. Those digits identify the company that built the machine, which is where everything on this site begins. ## Questions about codes Is this code a Kenmore code? — No. Kenmore manufactures nothing, so every code on an appliance wearing this badge belongs to the company that built it. That is why each page here names the manufacturer and links to the document the meaning was read from. Will unplugging it clear the code? — Often, and several of these manufacturers ask for exactly that — thirty seconds at the breaker is Frigidaire's own first step on a whole family of codes. A code that returns immediately after a full power cycle is not a glitch. Photograph it before you clear it. My machine has no display, only lights. — Then the lights are the code. Whirlpool publishes flashing-light patterns that correspond to its numbered codes, so counting the flashes and the pauses gives you the same information. Tell us the pattern when you call. I found a longer list of Kenmore codes somewhere else. — Then some of it was written rather than read. We publish what the manufacturers publish and nothing else, and we name the document each entry came from. Where a maker names a code and does not define it, we say that instead of filling in the gap. ## What Kenmore repair actually involves in Miami ### Why every code here names a manufacturer Because the code belongs to the manufacturer and not to the badge. Kenmore commissioned appliances from Whirlpool, LG, Frigidaire, GE, Broan, Roper and Bosch, and each of those companies wrote its own diagnostic language. They overlap: several use an F followed by a number, several use two letters, and several use PF for a power failure. A code read against the wrong table is a confident answer pointing at the wrong component. ### Where each family came from The Whirlpool entries were read from the manufacturer’s own product-help site. The LG entries come from LG-hosted owner’s manuals, with the manual’s exact wording where the manual carried it, plus LG’s own help library. The Frigidaire entries come from Electrolux North America’s own owner support system. No repair blog, forum or parts-store list is a source anywhere on this site. ### Codes and signals are different things 39 of the entries here are not errors at all. Power failure notices, control locks, Sabbath and demonstration modes, filter reminders and tub-clean alarms are all published in the same tables as genuine problems, and mistaking one for the other is how a working appliance gets a service call. They are labeled separately for that reason. ### What we do with a code Read it against the right company’s table, then confirm it at the appliance. A code names a circuit rather than a component, and the measurement is what turns one into the other. Send the characters and three digits from the plate, and a likely part can generally be named before anybody sets off. ## The characters on the display, and three digits from the plate. Between them we can generally name a likely part before arriving. The figure itself is settled once somebody has seen the appliance. --- **[Read full article: Error codes archive](https://kenmoremiami.support/error-codes-archive/)**