--- title: "Washer error code E4" description: "Frigidaire washer error code E4: The machine tried to spin, felt the load piled to one side, and stopped rather than walking across the floor." url: "https://frigidairemiami.support/error-codes/washer-e4/" date_modified: "2026-09-09" Appliance type: "washer" --- # Washer error code E4 ### What E4 means on this make The machine tried to spin, felt the load piled to one side, and stopped rather than walking across the floor. The maker’s own list puts installation first and it is right to: shipping supports left in place and a cabinet not resting firmly on the floor account for most of these in the first month of a machine’s life. After that it is the laundry — a single heavy item, a comforter, a bath mat. The machine gives itself three attempts to redistribute before it gives up, which is worth knowing before it is called a failure. ### 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 - Open the lid and redistribute the load by hand, especially if it is one heavy item. - Check the machine is resting firmly on the floor and adjust the leveling legs. The maker calls this a common installation issue, and in a laundry closet it is. - If the machine is newly delivered, confirm the foam shipping support was removed. It is not obvious and it is missed often. - If it happens on ordinary mixed loads on a level machine, the suspension is worn and that is a visit rather than a habit. ### Where this goes next The job this usually becomes is [diagnostic visit](/services/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](tel:+13056155496) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything. Top-load washers What this one means What E4 means on this make The machine tried to spin, felt the load piled to one side, and stopped rather than walking across the floor. The maker’s own list puts installation first and it is right to: shipping supports left in place and a cabinet not resting firmly on the floor account for most of these in the first month of a machine’s life. After that it is the laundry — a single heavy item, a comforter, a bath mat. The machine gives itself three attempts to redistribute before it gives up, which is worth knowing before it is called a failure. 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 Open the lid and redistribute the load by hand, especially if it is one heavy item. Check the machine is resting firmly on the floor and adjust the leveling legs. The maker calls this a common installation issue, and in a laundry closet it is. If the machine is newly delivered, confirm the foam shipping support was removed. It is not obvious and it is missed often. If it happens on ordinary mixed loads on a level machine, the suspension is worn and that is a visit rather than a habit. 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](tel:+13056155496) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything. --- **[Read full article: Washer error code E4](https://frigidairemiami.support/error-codes/washer-e4/)**