What E17 actually means
The machine has detected too much foam and has ended the cycle without properly rinsing your load.
Grundig machines watch for excessive suds during the wash and rinse stages. If there is too much foam, the control board stops the programme rather than carrying on rinsing, and shows E17. Grundig class this as a warning rather than a fault insing being skipped is the machine protecting itself, not a breakdown.
What usually causes it
- Too much detergent for the load size or water hardness
- Hand-wash or non-machine detergent used in the drawer
- Very lightly soiled or small loads with a full dose of detergent
- Detergent left over from a previous wash still in the drawer or drum
- Occasionally, a wash on a low-water eco programme with a heavy dose of liquid
What you can safely check yourself
Work through these in order. Anything beyond this — panels off, testing parts, anything to do with the wiring — is an engineer's job, and not one to attempt with the machine plugged in.
- Run a rinse or spin programme with no detergent to clear the foam out
- Cut the detergent dose back about half of what you used last time, and follow the dose on the pack for your water hardness
- Check the detergent drawer is not clogged with old powder rinse it under the tap
- If you use liquid detergent, make sure the dosing insert is fitted correctly in the drawer
- Switch off at the wall for a minute before restarting the cycle
When to call someone
This often clears with the checks above, and rarely needs an engineer. We cover Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire, and it's £66 including VAT for an engineer to come out and diagnose it — £84 in total if it's repaired on the visit with no parts needed. Any parts needed are quoted on site before we fit them — you decide. Every repair carries a 90-day workmanship guarantee.
Outside our area? The explanation above still stands — take it to a local engineer and tell them the code. Knowing it saves them time and you money.
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