The handle is the whole of what the HNDL code records. Asko’s own 2002 United States Product Guide describes the D1996HNDL as the version with the full-width stainless steel handle, and its index prints the D1996HNDL and the D1996SS against one page, which is the clearest statement in the surviving record that the two are the same dishwasher wearing different door hardware.
A full-width handle is a finish-specific part, and finish-specific parts on a long-discontinued machine are the ones that disappear first. That is the honest thing to say about a D1996HNDL before any work on the door is agreed. No published specification for the model was recovered, so nothing else is stated for it, and a parts order is built on the model name, the article number and the serial number from the plate rather than on the model name alone.
Key Features
- Listed in the index of Asko Inc.'s own United States Product Guide, form 051101-0530, dated 2002
- The version with the full-width stainless steel handle
- Printed against the same page of that guide as the D1996SS
- Published specification detail for this model was not recovered; the serial number plate on the machine is the authority
- Discontinued
Most Common Issues on This Model
The door latch not holding, so a program will not start
A program stopping part-way through with the door still locked
Dishes coming out gritty or filmed after a full program
Controls unresponsive or the display blank at the start of a cycle