Deciphering the error F17 or Door on the Ariston washing machine: causes of the malfunction, solutions

F17 or door errors on the Aris­ton wash­ing machine may appear on the dis­play before wash­ing starts, dur­ing oper­a­tion, or after it. But how is this error decod­ed? In the arti­cle we will tell you in detail what they mean, the rea­sons for their appear­ance and how to fix them your­self.

How the error is decoded

Error F17 or Door means that a fail­ure has occurred or the hatch lock does not work. The main cause of the mal­func­tion is the hatch block­ing device (UBL), but the con­trol board (mod­ule), the motor may also be faulty, or the con­tacts and wiring may be dam­aged.

On Hot­point-Aris­ton wash­ing machines with­out a dis­play, the error is dis­played as fol­lows:

• On Aris­ton Margheri­ta mod­els, the error is dis­played by cyclic blink­ing of the net­work indi­ca­tor 17 times, then fades for up to 10 sec­onds. and repeat. Also, the switch knob will rotate clock­wise and plus the sun­roof lock indi­ca­tor may blink.
• The AV, AVL, AVTL, AVSL, CDE and oth­ers range dis­plays an error by blink­ing the “Spin” indi­ca­tors and the last in a series of addi­tion­al func­tions (depend­ing on the mod­el, this is “Extra Rinse” or “Spin Speed ​​Reduc­tion”). The sun­roof lock indi­ca­tor will also flash rapid­ly.
• On Aris­ton machines of the Low-End line (ARSL, ARTL, ARXL, AVM, ARUSL and oth­ers), the sec­ond from the top and the first from the bot­tom indi­ca­tors (“Rinse” and “Hatch Lock”) will flash simul­ta­ne­ous­ly with the phas­es of the cycles in a row ver­ti­cal­ly. All addi­tion­al func­tion LEDs may also be lit.
• Mod­els of the Aqualtis series dis­play the F17 error by simul­ta­ne­ous­ly flash­ing 1 and 5 tem­per­a­ture indi­ca­tors (“No heat­ing” and “60 ° C”, and in mod­els with six indi­ca­tors “No heat­ing” and “90 ° C”)

Problems that do not require repair

In most cas­es, the occur­rence of a Door or F17 error on a Hot­point-Aris­ton wash­ing machine indi­cates prob­lems that do not require appro­pri­ate repair:

• The door is not tight­ly closed. Per­haps the linen got between the hatch and the elas­tic band (cuff). To fix the prob­lem, it is enough to com­plete­ly open the door of the machine and get rid of the object that pre­vents it from clos­ing. If the prob­lem is solved, a cor­re­spond­ing click occurs dur­ing the clos­ing process. After that, the error sig­nal dis­ap­pears.
• Some­thing fell into the hole in the lock. It is nec­es­sary to care­ful­ly check the mech­a­nism, small pieces of fab­ric, thread or dirt could get into it. When remov­ing such things, the main thing is not to dam­age the lock hole and its ele­ments. To do this, the work should be done very care­ful­ly. After remov­ing for­eign objects, close the door tight­ly.
• The con­tacts are gone. The lack of com­mu­ni­ca­tion in the con­tact cir­cuit often appears after the trans­porta­tion of the wash­ing machine or its improp­er instal­la­tion. If the device is stand­ing on an uneven sur­face, it must be prop­er­ly lev­eled by check­ing the result using a stan­dard build­ing lev­el.
• Fault in the con­trol board. A sim­i­lar prob­lem is elim­i­nat­ed by reboot­ing the wash­ing machine. This can be forced by dis­con­nect­ing the device from the pow­er sup­ply. After that, you need to give the device about 10 min­utes to “rest”. After that, you can recon­nect the machine to the net­work. If every­thing is done cor­rect­ly, the error that has arisen will dis­ap­pear and the machine will work cor­rect­ly.
• The hatch hinges were loose. Some­times the mounts loosen as a result of con­stant vibra­tion of the device. In such a sit­u­a­tion, you can inde­pen­dent­ly cope with the prob­lem by care­ful­ly adjust­ing the posi­tion of the fas­ten­ers with a screw­driv­er and fix­ing them in the right place.

Faults requiring repair

If it was not pos­si­ble to elim­i­nate the F17 or Door error on your own, you need to seek help from a spe­cial­ist.