--- title: "Whirlpool-built Kenmore washer signal CL" description: "Whirlpool-built Kenmore washer signal CL: cL is an indicator rather than an error." url: "https://kenmoremiami.support/error-codes/whirlpool-washer-cl/" date_modified: "2026-09-01" Appliance type: "Washers" --- # Whirlpool-built Kenmore washer signal CL ### Whose code this actually is Kenmore did not write CL, because Kenmore has never built an appliance. This one is Whirlpool’s, and it appears on the washer that Whirlpool built and Sears sold under the Kenmore badge. Whirlpool-built and LG-built washers wear one badge and share almost none of their code scheme, so the wrong table here sends you to a pump when the machine is reporting a lid. ### What the appliance is telling you A reminder that the Clean Washer cycle is due — it appears after about thirty cycles. Where it shows as rL, the machine has detected laundry in the drum during that cycle. This one is an indicator rather than an error. It is published in the same table as genuine problems, and treating it as one is how a working appliance gets a service call. ### Which Kenmore models can raise it The Kenmore washer whose model number begins 110 — the three digits before the period on the rating plate. Those digits are Whirlpool’s, which is why Whirlpool’s table is the one that applies to CL 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: **rL, F34**. They are the same finding and they lead to the same place. ### Worth trying yourself, in this order - Run the Clean Washer cycle with the drum empty. - In this climate it is worth running more often than the reminder asks, and leaving the door ajar between loads. ### Where this usually goes The job this most often becomes is [diagnostic visit](/services/diagnostic-visit/), and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. A Kenmore washer in this county works in hard water and a warm laundry room, so a code that arrives with slow draining or long cycles is very often the supply or the drain rather than the machine. Photograph the display before you cut the power: a reset clears CL, and on a Kenmore the characters plus three digits off the plate are most of the diagnosis. ### Where this meaning came from Whirlpool’s own documentation: *Top Load HE Washer error codes — Whirlpool Product Help*. Kenmore publishes none of its own, which is why every entry on this site names the manufacturer’s document instead. What the machine is telling you Whose code this actually is Kenmore did not write CL, because Kenmore has never built an appliance. This one is Whirlpool’s, and it appears on the washer that Whirlpool built and Sears sold under the Kenmore badge. Whirlpool-built and LG-built washers wear one badge and share almost none of their code scheme, so the wrong table here sends you to a pump when the machine is reporting a lid. What the appliance is telling you A reminder that the Clean Washer cycle is due — it appears after about thirty cycles. Where it shows as rL, the machine has detected laundry in the drum during that cycle. This one is an indicator rather than an error. It is published in the same table as genuine problems, and treating it as one is how a working appliance gets a service call. Which Kenmore models can raise it The Kenmore washer whose model number begins 110 — the three digits before the period on the rating plate. Those digits are Whirlpool’s, which is why Whirlpool’s table is the one that applies to CL 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: rL, F34. They are the same finding and they lead to the same place. Worth trying yourself, in this order Run the Clean Washer cycle with the drum empty. In this climate it is worth running more often than the reminder asks, and leaving the door ajar between loads. Where this usually goes The job this most often becomes is diagnostic visit, and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. A Kenmore washer in this county works in hard water and a warm laundry room, so a code that arrives with slow draining or long cycles is very often the supply or the drain rather than the machine. Photograph the display before you cut the power: a reset clears CL, and on a Kenmore the characters plus three digits off the plate are most of the diagnosis. Where this meaning came from Whirlpool’s own documentation: Top Load HE Washer error codes — Whirlpool Product Help. Kenmore publishes none of its own, which is why every entry on this site names the manufacturer’s document instead. --- **[Read full article: Whirlpool-built Kenmore washer signal CL](https://kenmoremiami.support/error-codes/whirlpool-washer-cl/)**