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title: "Dishwashers"
description: "Dacor dishwashers — twenty-four inches, panel-ready, and two generations of it in South Florida kitchens."
url: "https://dacormiami.support/appliances/dishwasher/"
date_modified: "2026-09-12"
Appliance type: "dishwasher"
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# Dacor dishwashers

### Two machines, two problem languages

A dishwasher on this badge is either an older EDW or IDW reporting F-1 through F-9, or a current machine reporting letter codes ending in C. Nothing crosses between them — not the code, not the board, not the part number. The single most useful thing a caller can do is read the display exactly as it appears, including the dash.

### Softened water in a hard-water city

A softener built into the appliance is unusual and, here, practical: it is the difference between glassware that stays clear and glassware that slowly frosts. It is also a maintenance item, which is why a machine that washed perfectly for years and then stopped rinsing cleanly is worth looking at there first.

### AutoRelease is not a problem

The door that opens itself at the end of a cycle causes more calls than it should. Explaining it costs nothing and saves a visit, which is the reason it is written here rather than left to be discovered.

24-inch panel-ready · StormWash+ and AutoRelease

Dishwasher repair

Current platform: StormWash+, built-in water softener, AutoRelease drying door

Previous Samsung-era platform: WaterWall, third rack, 44 dBA

Legacy EDW and IDW machines speak F-1–F-9 — a different language entirely

Two machines, two problem languages

A dishwasher on this badge is either an older EDW or IDW reporting F-1 through F-9, or a current machine reporting letter codes ending in C. Nothing crosses between them — not the code, not the board, not the part number. The single most useful thing a caller can do is read the display exactly as it appears, including the dash.

Softened water in a hard-water city

A softener built into the appliance is unusual and, here, practical: it is the difference between glassware that stays clear and glassware that slowly frosts. It is also a maintenance item, which is why a machine that washed perfectly for years and then stopped rinsing cleanly is worth looking at there first.

AutoRelease is not a problem

The door that opens itself at the end of a cycle causes more calls than it should. Explaining it costs nothing and saves a visit, which is the reason it is written here rather than left to be discovered.

### The door opens by itself at the end of the cycle.

That is AutoRelease, and it is the machine working. The door releases a few inches at the end to let steam out and finish drying without heat, which is quieter and gentler on plastics than a heated dry. It surprises people the first week and then becomes the thing they miss on other machines. If the door releases mid-cycle, or never releases at all, that is a genuine problem and worth the call.

### There is a code on the display ending in C.

Then the machine is from the current era, and that letter pair is the useful part — tell it to us on the telephone. Codes like these point at specific things: water not arriving, water not leaving, a leak detected at the base. What we will not do is read you a meaning we cannot source. Where the make publishes a code and what it means, we say so; where it does not, we say that too, rather than inventing something that sounds official.

### My machine shows F-4 and nobody recognizes it.

Because it is from the other era. The EDW and IDW dishwashers, made before the 2016 acquisition, report F-1 through F-9, and those strings do not exist on current machines at all — which is exactly why a search finds nothing useful and a general appliance technician shrugs. It is a supported machine with a documented table; it simply speaks the older language, and we keep both.

### What does the built-in water softener change?

In South Florida, quite a lot. Hard water is the ordinary cause of cloudy glass and of scale that collects on the heater and the spray arms, and a machine with its own softener treats the water it uses rather than relying on what arrives. It also adds something to maintain: the softener has a service interval, and a machine that suddenly rinses badly after years of behaving is worth checking there before anything is dismantled.

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