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title: "Whirlpool-built Kenmore washer error code Ld"
description: "Whirlpool-built Kenmore washer error code Ld: whirlpool wrote this code, not Kenmore."
url: "https://kenmoremiami.support/error-codes/whirlpool-washer-ld/"
date_modified: "2026-09-01"
Appliance type: "Washers"
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# Whirlpool-built Kenmore washer error code Ld

### Whose code this actually is

Kenmore did not write Ld, 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 it means

The washer is taking too long to drain — Whirlpool's own name for it is a long drain.

### 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 Ld 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: **F9 E1, drn**. They are the same finding and they lead to the same place.

### What happens next

- Check the drain hose for a kink, and that it is not pushed too far down the standpipe.
- Clear the drain filter or coin trap where the machine has one.
- If the hose and filter are clear, the pump or its control is the answer.

### Where this usually goes

The job this most often becomes is [washer drain pump replacement](/services/washer-drain-pump-replacement/), 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 Ld, 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 this one means

Whose code this actually is

Kenmore did not write Ld, 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 it means

The washer is taking too long to drain — Whirlpool's own name for it is a long drain.

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 Ld 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: F9 E1, drn. They are the same finding and they lead to the same place.

What happens next

Check the drain hose for a kink, and that it is not pushed too far down the standpipe.

Clear the drain filter or coin trap where the machine has one.

If the hose and filter are clear, the pump or its control is the answer.

Where this usually goes

The job this most often becomes is washer drain pump replacement, 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 Ld, 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.

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