Kenmore Ultra Wash Dishwasher flashing "clean" light needs to be reset

maklanava · #1 Dec 29, 2006, 10:17 AM

We paid a Sears repairman to come out when we had a flashing "Clean" light on our dishwasher, A Kenmore Ultra Wash 665.1603 or 1703, and he gave us the diagnostic code (buttons to push on the operating panel) and we have used it again after that, but I cannot find the order of the buttons to push now. Does anyone know which ones to select?

bingston · Jan 7, 2007, 07:31 PM

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Originally Posted by maklanava

We paid a Sears repairman to come out when we had a flashing "Clean" light on our dishwasher, A Kenmore Ultra Wash 665.1603 or 1703, and he gave us the diagnostic code (buttons to push on the operating panel) and we have used it again after that, but I cannot find the order of the buttons to push now. Does anyone know which ones to select?

I have a 1701, and the sequence is heated dry-normal wash-heated dry-normal wash; but I understand for the 1703 the buttons are heated wash-heated dry instead. Ooh, and I see there are some similar answers below that probably have the same information.

cheers

curtisst · Mar 3, 2007, 04:27 PM

My Sears washer is model 665.17029400 and reset is as follows-Press normal wash and heated dry one after the other about 5 times.All lights on panel will light.Wait until all lights go out and it resets itself.It will go into a mode on it's own.Then press cancel and set your options as you normally would and press start.This worked for me after not having washer for 3 months.Sears customer service told me to turn off breaker for 5 minutes and it would reset itself-NOT TRUE! Depend on sites like this for practical imfo.Sears does not want you to know these things as it would eliminate expensive and unessary service calls.

curtisst · Mar 3, 2007, 04:32 PM

P.S. I see some people useing 1700 numbers which are typically stock numbers which can change from time to time.The model numbers are as I have listed above.This may help you in the future when searching for answers to your questions. Ciao!

Pele1 · Sep 8, 2007, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by curtisst

My Sears washer is model 665.17029400 and reset is as follows-Press normal wash and heated dry one after the other about 5 times.All lights on panel will light.Wait until all lights go out and it resets itself.It will go into a mode on it's own.Then press cancel and set your options as you normally would and press start.This worked for me after not having washer for 3 months.Sears customer service told me to turn off breaker for 5 minutes and it would reset itself-NOT TRUE! Depend on sites like this for practical imfo.Sears does not want you to know these things as it would eliminate expensive and unessary service calls.

Thanks for your help! Great community.

sidneysdad · Dec 7, 2007, 10:05 PM

curtisst and community - thanks for the code to reset the cleaning light. that worked for me. I had gone through everything in the user's guide and looking for "suds." I should have come to this site first.

tonybui · Dec 11, 2007, 08:09 PM

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Originally Posted by maklanava

We paid a Sears repairman to come out when we had a flashing "Clean" light on our dishwasher, A Kenmore Ultra Wash 665.1603 or 1703, and he gave us the diagnostic code (buttons to push on the operating panel) and we have used it again after that, but I cannot find the order of the buttons to push now. Does anyone know which ones to select?

Curtisst,

You are tha man! I have just reset my Kenmore Elite Ultra Wash Dishwasher. It works wonderfully.

What a powerful internet age!

Tony



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