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369 codes · 15 brands

Washer has detected too much foam

6 error codes across 4 washer brands mean this. The fastest route is your own code, so start there.

Is there foam in the drum, or a cycle that keeps extending itself?

If the machine shows a code, find your brand below. 3 of these codes have a full page with the free checks in order; the rest open the brand table at their row.

Maytag

  • SudSud means the washer has detected excessive suds. It extends the rinse, pausing the tumbling and adding water so the bubbles can break — which may happen several times and is necessary, not a fault.Info

Whirlpool

  • SudSud means the washer has detected excessive suds and is running its automatic suds-reduction routine. The same condition also displays as Sd or 5d.Info
  • F0E2F0E2 means the washer detected too many suds during the cycle. The load may come out not fully rinsed, or with water not fully spun out.Info
  • SLSL on a Calypso is a suds lock: the machine found suds and could not clear them, having tried three times.Info

KitchenAid

  • SUDSUD is a suds lock: the machine detected too much detergent. It can also mean a heavy load, or a pump that cannot clear the suds.Info

Samsung

  • SudSud means the washer has detected excess suds. It pauses and runs a recovery; use HE detergent at a reduced dose.Info

No code shown?

Every step below is already verified on the code pages it links back to. It appears here because two independent publishers each documented it for two different manufacturers’ machines — so it is not one company’s house advice, and not one repair site’s wording reused across brands.

  1. Let the cycle run. The washer adds water and pauses tumbling to break the foam down itself, sometimes several times, and that pause is the fix rather than a fault.

    2 manufacturers · 2 independent publishers · verified on Maytag Sud, Samsung Sud, Whirlpool F0E2, Whirlpool Sud

  2. Use HE detergent only, dosed for its concentration (2x, 4x, 8x), the soil level and the load size.

    2 manufacturers · 2 independent publishers · verified on Maytag Sud, Samsung Sud, Whirlpool F0E2, Whirlpool Sud

These are not in likelihood order. No source ranks a symptom’s causes across brands, so the list is ordered by how widely each step is corroborated. Your own code’s page does put its checks in order — that is the better place to start if the machine is showing one.