Kenmore Trio diagnostic code ES
ES on a Kenmore 111 Trio is a dispenser failure.
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- Dispenser and auger
- Ice dispenser and auger repair
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What ES
actually means.
ES on a Kenmore 111 Trio is a dispenser failure. Sears says a sign of a stuck Water/Ice button is the indicator cycling through Water, Crushed Ice and Cubed Ice by itself, and a user interface board that will not free up needs replacing.
Kenmore ice maker display
What to do when ES shows on the ice makerKind of codeDispenser and auger
The dispenser was asked for ice and could not deliver it: the auger motor stalled against a frozen block, the flap at the bottom of the chute stayed shut, or the paddle switch never told the control it was pressed. Emptying the bin and thawing the chute come before the auger motor, the door flap solenoid or the switch is replaced.
Usually leads toIce dispenser and auger repair
The auger, its motor, the crusher, the chute flap and the paddle switch that move ice from the bin to your glass, or push soft nugget ice up and out, checked and repaired when the ice stops coming.
Shows up asIce Dispenser Not Working
The ice dispenser not working means you press the paddle and nothing comes, or the motor hums without ice, or only a few chips fall while the bin behind the door is full.
MakeKenmore
Kenmore ice maker repair, with the series identified from the printed model number before a part is chosen.
SourceSears PartsDirect: Kenmore 111 bottom-freezer error codes (Wayback copy, Nov 2019)
Kenmore bottom-freezer Trio models whose number begins 111; the code is read in the control's diagnostic mode.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Kenmore's own guidance for ES on its ice makers. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Watch the dispenser panel for the selection cycling on its own.
Press the Water/Ice button in several spots to free it.
If it stays stuck, book a visit.
Still there?
It usually turns into ice dispenser and auger repair. Book with the code and the model number.
What not to do
ES is not an ice maker failure. The ice maker may be full of ice while the dispenser controls misbehave.
What you may
notice with it.
The ice maker problems ES tends to arrive with. Answer these at the ice maker before anyone is booked.
All problems
Ice Dispenser Not Working
6 causes, cheapest first
Where ES usually leads
Ice dispenser and auger repair.
Kenmore
ice makers.
Kenmore ice maker repair, with the series identified from the printed model number before a part is chosen.
Kenmore ice maker repair
Door ice maker
The ice maker that feeds the dispenser on the outside of a door: tucked into an insulated box in the left door of a French door model, or at the top of the freezer side of a side-by-side, with a chute and an auger carrying cubes to your glass.
Freezer ice maker
The ice maker that sits inside the freezer compartment itself, a tray that twists or a mold with a heater and an ejector, dropping cubes into a bin or drawer you open by hand, with no dispenser on the door.
In Kenmore's own words
ES Dispenser failure
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Kenmore bottom-freezer Trio models whose number begins 111; the code is read in the control's diagnostic mode.
Kenmore ES ice maker 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.
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Questions
about ES.
Can I clear ES myself?
Why does my Kenmore dispenser keep switching between water and ice by itself?
How do I free a stuck Kenmore Water/Ice button?
Does ES mean the Kenmore ice maker is broken?
Back to your everyday
Still showing ES?
Book with the code or the blink pattern written exactly as the ice maker shows it, the full model number, and whether there is any water on the floor — when there is a code, that is where the diagnosis starts.