--- title: "Washer error code OE" description: "LG washer error code OE: The most common laundry call on any make, and LG's own troubleshooting order is the right one because it goes from free to…" url: "https://lgmiami.support/error-codes/washer-drain/" date_modified: "2026-09-05" Appliance type: "Washers" --- # Washer error code OE ### What OE means on this make The most common laundry call on any make, and LG’s own troubleshooting order is the right one because it goes from free to expensive. Behind the machine, the drain hose can be kinked against the wall or pushed too far down the standpipe. At the front, behind a small door at the bottom right, there is a pump filter that catches coins, hair grips and the corner of a tissue — and in a house that has never opened it, that filter is the whole answer more often than not. Only after both is it the pump, and a pump tells you which it is: one that hums and moves nothing is blocked, one that is silent has failed. ### The other ways LG prints this one OE · E03 · E21 · 0E LG publishes a condition and then every string that can stand for it, and which one your machine shows depends on the panel it was built with — OE, E03 and E21 are one condition on a washer, and Er dS, F dS and r dS are one sensor on different evaporators. They are one page here, so whichever of them you searched for, this is the right page. ### Where this appears, and why not to clear it On the appliance’s own display. LG reports errors two ways: machines with a digital display show a code, and the laundry machines without one blink their indicator lights instead. Both are published by the maker and both are on this site. Photograph what the panel shows before cutting the power. On a refrigerator you can also force the last code back onto the display by holding Freezer Temperature and Express Frz together for three seconds — LG documents that, and it is the one thing that makes a first visit more useful. A code that has been reset is information a technician no longer has. ### What to do about it - Put a shallow tray and a towel down, open the filter door at the bottom front and unscrew the filter slowly — there is water behind it. - Clean the filter and its housing, then put it back finger tight. - Check behind the machine that the drain hose is not kinked or pushed more than a few inches into the standpipe. - Run a spin-only cycle and listen for the pump. ### 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) 419-0291](tel:+13054190291) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything. What this one means What OE means on this make The most common laundry call on any make, and LG’s own troubleshooting order is the right one because it goes from free to expensive. Behind the machine, the drain hose can be kinked against the wall or pushed too far down the standpipe. At the front, behind a small door at the bottom right, there is a pump filter that catches coins, hair grips and the corner of a tissue — and in a house that has never opened it, that filter is the whole answer more often than not. Only after both is it the pump, and a pump tells you which it is: one that hums and moves nothing is blocked, one that is silent has failed. The other ways LG prints this one OE · E03 · E21 · 0E LG publishes a condition and then every string that can stand for it, and which one your machine shows depends on the panel it was built with — OE, E03 and E21 are one condition on a washer, and Er dS, F dS and r dS are one sensor on different evaporators. They are one page here, so whichever of them you searched for, this is the right page. Where this appears, and why not to clear it On the appliance’s own display. LG reports errors two ways: machines with a digital display show a code, and the laundry machines without one blink their indicator lights instead. Both are published by the maker and both are on this site. Photograph what the panel shows before cutting the power. On a refrigerator you can also force the last code back onto the display by holding Freezer Temperature and Express Frz together for three seconds — LG documents that, and it is the one thing that makes a first visit more useful. A code that has been reset is information a technician no longer has. What to do about it Put a shallow tray and a towel down, open the filter door at the bottom front and unscrew the filter slowly — there is water behind it. Clean the filter and its housing, then put it back finger tight. Check behind the machine that the drain hose is not kinked or pushed more than a few inches into the standpipe. Run a spin-only cycle and listen for the pump. 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) 419-0291](tel:+13054190291) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything. --- **[Read full article: Washer error code OE](https://lgmiami.support/error-codes/washer-drain/)**