Maytag dryer
showing F3E5
Maytag's F3E5 appears after five consecutive loads dry with no data from the moisture sensor.
Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm
- Sensor circuit
- Controls and sensors
- Source: Maytag
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What F3E5
actually means.
Maytag's F3E5 appears after five consecutive loads dry with no data from the moisture sensor. The strips need wet clothes to touch them, and an unlevel cabinet or tiny loads can keep that from happening.
Maytag dryer display · also shown as F3 E5
What to do when F3E5 shows on the dryerKind of codeSensor circuit
A thermistor or the moisture sensor bars reading outside their range, or the wiring to them. The reading is checked with a meter before any part is ordered.
Usually leads toControls and sensors
A blank display, a panel that ignores buttons, codes, or cycles that end too soon or never end, traced to the board, timer or sensors.
Shows up asDryer Takes Too Long to Dry
Loads that used to dry in one cycle now need two, or come out damp at the seams.
MakeMaytag
Full-size dryers in electric and gas versions, from a Whirlpool-owned brand that shares many of its parts.
SourceMaytag product help: F3E5 moisture sensor
Maytag dryers with Advanced Moisture Sensing and the F/E code display.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Maytag's own guidance for F3E5 on its dryers. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Press Power to clear the code.
Check that the dryer stands level and adjust the feet if it does not.
Dry single items on Timed Dry and use Automatic cycles for fuller loads.
Book a visit if F3E5 returns under normal loads.
What not to do
A damp load at the end of a timed cycle is not F3E5's territory; the code only concerns sensor cycles.
What you may
notice with it.
The dryer problems F3E5 tends to arrive with. Answer these at the dryer before anyone is booked.
All problems
Dryer Takes Too Long to Dry
5 causes, cheapest first
Where F3E5 usually leads
Controls and sensors.
Maytag
dryers.
Full-size dryers in electric and gas versions, from a Whirlpool-owned brand that shares many of its parts.
Maytag dryer repair
Electric dryer
The most common dryer in US homes: a 240-volt heating coil, a belt-driven drum and a vent to the outside.
Gas dryer
Heat from a burner on natural gas or propane, lit by an igniter and watched over by a flame sensor, with the motor on 120 volts.
Stackable dryer
The dryer half of a stacked pair or a single-frame laundry center, where the height and the closet decide how the repair is done.
In Maytag's own words
The F3E5 error code occurs when five consecutive loads are dried without registering moisture sensor data.
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Maytag dryers with Advanced Moisture Sensing and the F/E code display.
Maytag F3E5 dryer repair,
where we come out.
The same visit in every metro below: the code, the model number, and a diagnosis before any part is ordered.
All service areasTampa BayFL · 31 areas
Miami / South FloridaFL · 47 areas
New York MetroNY · 75 areas
HoustonTX · 36 areas
ChicagoIL · 50 areas
Los AngelesCA · 95 areas
San DiegoCA · 31 areas
Questions
about F3E5.
Can I clear F3E5 myself?
Can I keep using my Maytag after clearing F3E5?
Why does F3E5 need five loads before it shows on a Maytag?
Back to your everyday
Still showing F3E5?
Book with the code exactly as displayed, the whole model number, and whether you smell burning or gas — for a code, that is where the diagnosis starts.