--- title: "How to Reset a Thermador Dishwasher (and When a Reset Is the Wrong Move)" description: "Cancel a stalled cycle, power-cycle the control, or cut the breaker for five minutes. What each reset clears on a Thermador dishwasher, and the codes that come straight back because" url: "https://thermadormiami.support/blog/resetting-a-thermador-dishwasher/" date_modified: "2026-08-18" Category: "Troubleshooting" --- # How to Reset a Thermador Dishwasher (and When a Reset Is the Wrong Move) ## First: photograph the display A code clears with the reset, and it is the most useful thing in the kitchen. Get every character — these machines label the same condition differently across generations, so **E24**, **E6102** and **E61-03** all mean water is not leaving the machine, and all of them find the same page in [the code archive here](/error-codes/). ## The three resets, gentlest first ### 1. Cancel the running program **Hold the Start key for three to five seconds.** The display clears and the machine runs a short drain to empty the tub. This is the right one when a cycle has stalled — the machine is sitting mid-wash with nothing happening. It ends the program cleanly and leaves the machine ready to start again. ### 2. Off and on at the machine's own key Wait half a minute between. This clears the control's working state without touching anything stored, and it is enough more often than people expect for lights that do not match the cycle or a program that will not select. ### 3. Five minutes at the breaker Genuinely off. Built-in machines are usually on an outlet inside the cabinet under the sink, and that outlet is very often on the same switch as the garbage disposal — which means somebody may already have reset your dishwasher by accident, and it also means that switch is the first thing to check on a machine that is completely dead. **A reset is not a repair.** It clears a state. If the condition behind that state is still there, the code comes back — and it coming back is genuinely useful information, obtained in five minutes, before anyone was booked. ## The one case where resetting is the wrong move If the machine is showing a leak condition, it has water in its base pan and it has stopped on purpose. Clearing that is not a fix and repeating it is worse than doing nothing: the float stays lifted while water is still arriving, and every reset buys a few more minutes of a leak nobody has looked for. The right order is the other way around: - **Turn off the water** at the shut-off valve under the sink.- **Find where it came from** — the door seal at the bottom corners, the connections behind the machine, the sump, or simply too much detergent foaming past a perfectly good seal.- **Dry the pan.** Off at the breaker, tipped gently back on a towel for a few minutes, left overnight.- *Then* let it run. If the condition never returns, the water was a one-off. There is advice on the internet that tipping a dishwasher backwards "fixes" this code. It drains the pan, which clears the lockout, and it repairs nothing at all — the leak is still where it was. [What a leak repair actually involves](/services/dishwasher-leak-repair/). ## What survives every reset Conditions rather than states, and each of them will simply be reported again: - **A blocked drain.** Reset as often as you like; the water is still not leaving. The filter unscrews by hand and is the answer more often than the pump.- **Scale in the heat pump.** On Miami-Dade water this platform publishes a code for it. The machine will keep saying so until it is descaled.- **A door it cannot confirm is closed.** No reset starts a machine with an unlatched door, and on a panel-ready door that has settled slightly, "closed" and "latched" are not the same thing.- **Low supply voltage.** Published as its own condition, and it is about your building rather than your dishwasher. ## Is there a factory reset? There is a service mode, entered with a key combination that varies by model and generation. It is not a consumer reset and it is not a fix for anything on this page — it exists so a technician can read what the machine has stored and run its components individually. Nothing in it makes a blocked drain drain. ## When to call The code came back after a full five-minute reset. The machine is dead with the cabinet switch and breaker confirmed good. Or there is water on the floor rather than only in the pan. Tell us the model number and the code — every character of it — and we will tell you what it covers and what it should cost before anyone comes out. --- **[Read full article: How to Reset a Thermador Dishwasher (and When a Reset Is the Wrong Move)](https://thermadormiami.support/blog/resetting-a-thermador-dishwasher/)**