Error code
Washer signal CL
Frigidaire washer — reported by blinking lights rather than by a code. This one is not a failure at all and the machine is saying so: the control lock is on and the lid has been left open.
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What we can confirm
Signal CL, from the manufacturer's own documentation
This code has no number, because this equipment has no display to put one on. The appliance signals it instead — an alarm, a symbol or a pattern of lights — and what it means is recorded in the documentation that ships with it.
The signal
CL
This one is not a failure at all and the machine is saying so: the control lock is on and the lid has been left open. It reaches us because a control lock is easy to engage by accident and invisible unless you know the symbol, and because a machine that will not respond to any button reads as broken to anybody who did not turn the lock on. Worth writing down rather than charging for: it is a padlock icon and a key held for a few seconds.
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What it narrows down to
Error Code CL means the unit lid is open for more than 20 seconds with control lock activated.
Diagnostic
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On the same appliance
What else belongs to the washers
On this make a code belongs to the appliance rather than to a product line. These are the other conditions this machine can display, and the models that can show this one — a display often has more than one thing to say, and the model number decides what any of it costs to put right.
Other codes this appliance can display
Error Code F2 indicates there is too much soap or wrong type of soap. Often, suds leak out or overflow.
Error Code E1 means water is not entering washer or slow water fill time.
Error Code E2 means water takes too long to drain or is not draining properly.
Error Code E3 means wash lid is either open or the lid lock failed.
Error Code E4 means the unit is out of balance during spin operation.
Error Code E5 means the unit is not level.
The same digits mean different things on different equipment. Search the full code list
In more detail
About Washer signal CL
What the appliance is actually reporting
This one is not a failure at all and the machine is saying so: the control lock is on and the lid has been left open. It reaches us because a control lock is easy to engage by accident and invisible unless you know the symbol, and because a machine that will not respond to any button reads as broken to anybody who did not turn the lock on. Worth writing down rather than charging for: it is a padlock icon and a key held for a few seconds.
Where this appears, and why not to clear it
On the appliance's own display, as a short single code — a letter and a number, or two letters. Nothing alternates and nothing arrives in halves on this make, so what the panel shows is the whole of it. Photograph it before you cut the power. This maker's own answer to most of these is thirty seconds at the breaker, and that is worth following once — but a display that has been cleared has taken the evidence with it, and there is no way to ask the machine for it again.
Which machines this one applies to
Top-load washers. The same number on a different appliance of this make is a different page and often a different repair, which is why this archive is organized by appliance rather than by number. This maker documents codes on four kinds of machine — the top-load washer, the dishwasher, the electric range and cooktop, and the refrigerator — and publishes none at all for its dryers, its freezers, its wine cabinets or its ice machines. Those appliances have symptom pages here and no code pages, which is the honest answer rather than borrowing a table from the machine next door.
What to do about it
- Close the lid.
- Look for a padlock symbol on the panel and hold the control lock key until it goes out. Which key it is varies by model — the use and care guide names it.
- Power the machine off and on if the code stays after the lock is released.
- If the panel will not release the lock at all, the control is not reading the key and that is a panel repair rather than a washer one.
Where this goes next
The job this usually becomes is diagnostic visit, and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes, reminders and settings rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call (305) 615-5496 and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything.
This article is based on:
- Official manufacturer documentation
- Internal repair procedures
- Technician repair history
- Company quality standards