Error code
Thermador oven error code E115
Thermador error code E115: the cavity is hotter than it should ever be with the door unlocked — E115 for the upper cavity, E215 for the lower one. What the code covers, what to check first, and what it does not tell you — on wall ovens & steam ovens.
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What we can confirm
Code E115, from the manufacturer's own documentation
A code is only meaningful together with the generation showing it — the same two digits mean different things across generations.
The code
E115
The cavity is hotter than it should ever be with the door unlocked — E115 for the upper cavity, E215 for the lower one
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What it narrows down to
Hot with door unlocked
What you are probably seeing
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What it looks like from the kitchen
The symptom this code usually arrives with
A code names the subsystem; the symptom is what sent you to look at the display in the first place. That page says what it usually turns out to be, cheapest cause first.
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Measure before you judge Oven runs hot or cold
Baking that has gone wrong at the same setting you have always used. A thermometer in the middle of the oven settles in twenty minutes what an argument about it never will.
- Everything browning too fast, or not at all
- A consistent offset at every setting
- A code in the E1 or E2 hundreds
In more detail
About Thermador oven error code E115
What this one means
The cavity is hotter than it should ever be with the door unlocked — E115 for the upper cavity, E215 for the lower one. It is a code the manufacturer publishes for this appliance, not one we have worked out — and it is decoded here rather than left as three characters on a display.
The other ways your machine may say it
The two labels are the two cavities of a double or triple oven, not two ages of machine — E1xx is the upper cavity and E2xx the lower, and the number tells you which one to look at:
- E115, E215
- Three LEDs on the panel blinking out the digits 1, 1 and 5 — how a model with no digital display says it. On that machine, the lights are the code
What the code covers
A published cause names a circuit rather than a component, which is the single most useful thing to know before ordering a part. This one covers:
- A relay stuck closed, leaving an element powered
- The cavity temperature sensor reading low
- The control module
Worth doing before you call
- Switch the oven off at the breaker if it is still heating with nothing selected, and leave it off
Then what
Treat this one as urgent rather than annoying: it is the oven itself saying it is hotter than the safety design allows. The manual's own example of a code on the display is this one, which is a fair indication of how often it turns up.
This code is published for wall ovens & steam ovens. The full list of codes has the rest of them, searchable, including the labels older and newer machines use for the same conditions.
This article is based on:
- Official manufacturer documentation
- Internal repair procedures
- Technician repair history
- Company quality standards