On current Asko dishwashers the control keeps the recent error messages and hands them over on request. The route is the settings menu, where one of the numbered items is Failure readout. Asko describes it plainly in the user manual: it shows any error messages, and when contacting customer care you may be asked to provide the most recent ones. No service sequence, no hidden key press, no panel removed.
How to Read It
Open the settings menu the way your model does it, step to the Failure readout item and read what is listed. The numbering of menu items is not identical across every generation, so use your own model's settings chapter rather than a number you read somewhere else. Write the codes down exactly as they appear, including whether there is a colon in the middle, before you clear anything. On current machines the manual wording for clearing a displayed error is simply to press any button, and pressing a button is also what makes the periodic filter reminder go away.
What the Codes Look Like, by Generation
This is where owners get misled, because the same digits mean different things depending on the platform:
- Current machines (the DBI, DFI and DSD families, roughly the last decade): two-digit codes with no colon. The published set includes F10, F11, F12, F40, F41, F45, F52, F54, F56, F67 and F68.
- The DW90 generation: two-digit codes shown with a colon, written F:10 through F:45. Only the DW90.1 panel displays the code at all; the DW90.2 and DW90.3 panels show the same faults in plain text instead. Asko notes that an audible signal sounds when a fault is indicated on the display.
- The older DW20 and DW70 platforms: single characters, F1 to F9 plus FA and FB. Models without a display show the same faults as LED flash patterns instead, and the DW70.4 panel spells them out in words such as Overfilling or Thermistor fault.
So a single-digit F2 on a twenty-year-old machine and a two-digit F12 on a current one are not variants of one code. They belong to different tables.
Not Everything in the List Is a Breakdown
Some entries record faults that never stopped the program, which is the whole reason the readout is interesting. Separately, Asko documents a Clean filter message that appears automatically after every 300 cycles on the DW90 platform and says outright that it is not a fault code but a reminder to check the filters and clean them if necessary, and that it disappears the next time a button is pressed. Do not report that as a failure.
Bring the List, Not a Summary
A photograph of the readout screen is worth more than a description of the symptom, because it often names a component that never announced itself during the cycle. If the list contains codes you cannot match to anything in your manual, note them anyway and book an Asko dishwasher repair visit with the model plate photo alongside.