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title: "When Your Dacor Is a Samsung Underneath, and When It Is Not"
description: "Is Dacor made by Samsung? Samsung acquired Dacor in September 2016. What changed underneath — error codes, boards, part numbers — and what a Dacor still is…"
url: "https://dacormiami.support/blog/when-your-dacor-is-a-samsung-and-when-it-is-not/"
date_modified: "2026-09-12"
Category: "Common Problems"
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# When Your Dacor Is a Samsung Underneath, and When It Is Not

This question gets asked defensively and it deserves a straight answer.

## Is Dacor made by Samsung? The facts, in order

Dacor was founded in 1965 in Pasadena by Stanley M. Joseph, and the name is short for Distinctive Appliances, Incorporated. It stayed family-run for three generations, and it manufactured at a plant in City of Industry, California, where US production continued until 2021.

Samsung Electronics America announced the acquisition on 10 August 2016 and closed it the following month for a reported $150 million. Samsung said at the time that Dacor would keep its corporate identity and brand.

It has. Dacor sells its own line, under its own name, on its own site.

## What actually changed underneath

The electronics. A Dacor built before September 2016 runs Dacor's own control boards and reports F-codes; one built after runs the Samsung platform and reports C-## strings on ovens and ranges and letter pairs ending in C on dishwashers.

The clearest evidence is in the dishwashers: 4C and 5C are exact matches to the parent company's own published dishwasher codes, and LC plays the same role as the parent's leak code. The internal document naming on the current dishwasher manual uses a Samsung part-number format.

That is a fact about the platform. It is useful precisely because it tells a technician which parts are correct.

## What did not change

The cabinet formats. Panel-ready columns at 24, 30 and 36 inches. French doors built to take cabinet fronts. Sealed brass rangetop burners with a simmer-to-sear range. Hood liners built to disappear into joinery. A hundred-bottle wine column holding three zones to about a third of a degree.

None of that is a badge exercise, and none of it is shared.

## Why we mention the parent at all

Because it is the honest answer to a service question, exactly as Whirlpool is the honest answer on a Kenmore site. What we will not do is use it as filler, claim a shared part number that is not in the documentation, or tell you your appliance is something it is not.

## The part that matters when something breaks

Not the ownership. The date. An appliance from 2014 and one from 2019 can share a cabinet shape and share nothing else — different code table, different board, different part number — and the model plate is what tells them apart.

## What this means for parts, practically

We order against the model number, never against the family. The platform being shared is why some part-number formats look familiar and why ordinary components on the current generation are stocked rather than ordered — but a part is correct because your model calls for it, and a supplier working from a family resemblance will happily send something that nearly fits.

On the legacy machines the question is different and simpler: those parts are Dacor's own, some are still made and some are not, and the answer is established before labor is booked rather than discovered afterwards.

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