KitchenAid Dishwasher F6E3 Error Code: Excessive Suds

What triggers it

KitchenAid’s owner help ties F6E3 to excessive suds and lets you deal with them yourself. The page’s warning: with foam in the tub, the sensing system can leave the dishwasher unable to run properly or take in water.

Habits that create suds

Three are named by KitchenAid:

1. Soap of the wrong type: laundry detergent, hand soap, or the kind of dish detergent made for hand washing
2. A rinse aid dispenser cap that was not replaced after refilling
3. An overdose of dishwasher detergent

Cleanup procedure

• Look into the tub for foam.
• Ladle suds out with a plastic cup until you have most of them.
• Take out the dishes.
• Put 2-3 tablespoons of vegetable cooking oil on the floor of the tub, which KitchenAid says holds suds down.
• Start a full cycle without detergent or dishes.
• Follow with another full cycle that has the detergent dispenser cups filled and no dishes.

Prevention

The page advises cleaning the dishwasher roughly every 30 days and mentions monthly affresh Dishwasher Cleaner to hold down films and odors. Stick to detergent designed for automatic dishwashers.

When the tub has no suds

Foam is assumed by the owner-help article, and the service tables add nothing for F6E3 beyond the same meaning. If the tub is clean and the code returns, no further owner step exists in the source: record the code and arrange service.

Neighbouring codes

• F8E4: owner help gives it a suds section too, next to a drip tray item
• F6E4 is the water float switch entry, which opens with leveling.

Dishwasher repair for suds and fill trouble in Los Angeles

Suds gone but F6E3 still displayed? Call (310) 363-8964 and tell us which soap was used and how the cleanup cycles went.

Source: KitchenAid Product Help, Dishwasher Error Code or Flashing Lights; KitchenAid Tech Sheet W10750900 Rev C; KitchenAid Job Aid W10573282