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title: "Bosch error code E19"
description: "Bosch error code E19: the solenoid that opens the detergent flap is not responding."
url: "https://boschmiami.support/error-codes/error-code-e19/"
date_modified: "2026-08-18"
Appliance type: "Dishwashers"
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# Bosch error code E19

### What this one means

The solenoid that opens the detergent flap is not responding. It is a code the manufacturer publishes for this appliance, not one we have worked out — and it is decoded here rather than left as three characters on a display.

### The other ways your machine may say it

The same condition is published under more than one label, because it has been carried across generations of this appliance:

- **E19, E6900** — the same condition, on machines of different ages

### What the code covers

A published cause names a circuit rather than a component, which is the single most useful thing to know before ordering a part. This one covers:

- The dispenser solenoid
- Its circuit

### Worth doing before you call

- Open the door at the end of a cycle and look at the detergent cup — an undissolved tablet still sitting in a closed flap is the same story

### Then what

A flap that never opens leaves the load washed in water alone, which arrives as a cleaning complaint far more often than as a code.

This code is published for dishwashers. The [full list of codes](https://boschmiami.support/error-codes/) has the rest of them, searchable, including the labels older and newer machines use for the same conditions.

What this code means

What this one means

The solenoid that opens the detergent flap is not responding. It is a code the manufacturer publishes for this appliance, not one we have worked out — and it is decoded here rather than left as three characters on a display.

The other ways your machine may say it

The same condition is published under more than one label, because it has been carried across generations of this appliance:

E19, E6900 — the same condition, on machines of different ages

What the code covers

A published cause names a circuit rather than a component, which is the single most useful thing to know before ordering a part. This one covers:

The dispenser solenoid

Its circuit

Worth doing before you call

Open the door at the end of a cycle and look at the detergent cup — an undissolved tablet still sitting in a closed flap is the same story

Then what

A flap that never opens leaves the load washed in water alone, which arrives as a cleaning complaint far more often than as a code.

This code is published for dishwashers. The full list of codes has the rest of them, searchable, including the labels older and newer machines use for the same conditions.

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