Why does my washing machine keep giving an inlet error?
Low water pressure can cause a washing machine to fill at a trickle and trigger an inlet error because not enough water fills the tub. Even after fixing the water source, the error can persist if the valves are not fully or properly opened.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Cleaning sediment out of the water inlet filters with Q-tips
- 2Running the washing machine in diagnostic testing mode
- 3Testing solenoids with a multimeter
- 4turning off the water supply valves when not in use
- 5stopping or turning off the washer with its internal controls
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Our well started to give us very low water pressure a few weeks ago and we noticed that our washer kept giving us an inlet error. The water was barely a trickle and as a result not enough water was filling up the tub.”source ↗
“When we got our well pump fixed, all the water pressure in the house is great but we were still occasionally getting this inlet error.”source ↗
Where this came up
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