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title: "Bosch error code F5"
description: "Bosch error code F5: hot cookware is sitting over the control panel and heating the electronics beneath it."
url: "https://boschmiami.support/error-codes/error-code-f5/"
date_modified: "2026-08-18"
Appliance type: "Cooktops & rangetops, Ranges"
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# Bosch error code F5

### What this one means

Hot cookware is sitting over the control panel and heating the electronics beneath it. 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:

- **A signal tone with the power level flashing** — how a model with no digital display says it. On that machine, the lights are the code

### 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:

- A pan or lid parked on the touch area

### What to try yourself

- Move the cookware off the control panel
- Wait a few seconds, touch any control and carry on

### Then what

Published in two versions — one where the zone has already switched off and one where the appliance is warning it is about to. Both mean the same thing and both are fixed by moving the pan.

This code is published for cooktops & rangetops and ranges. 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.

Cooktops & rangetops

What this code means

What this one means

Hot cookware is sitting over the control panel and heating the electronics beneath it. 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:

A signal tone with the power level flashing — how a model with no digital display says it. On that machine, the lights are the code

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:

A pan or lid parked on the touch area

What to try yourself

Move the cookware off the control panel

Wait a few seconds, touch any control and carry on

Then what

Published in two versions — one where the zone has already switched off and one where the appliance is warning it is about to. Both mean the same thing and both are fixed by moving the pan.

This code is published for cooktops & rangetops and ranges. 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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