Maytag Dryer Error Codes — Complete Error Code Diagnosis Guide

Ten Maytag dryer codes are covered here, and the thermistors take three of them: F3E1 is the outlet-air sensor reading open, F3E2 is the same sensor shorted, and F4E1 is the inlet thermistor. AF reports exhaust airflow below the sensing threshold — packed lint, a softener film sealing the screen mesh, a crushed transition hose. F6E1 and F6E2 are both the console losing its link to the machine control. F1 is a control self-check failure, and L2 and PF describe the 240-volt feed: one leg missing, or a cycle interrupted by an outage.

Two sensors in two places is the distinction the guides work hardest on, since inlet and outlet air tell different stories about the same cycle, and a code naming one is not solved by replacing the other. The open-versus-shorted split is settled with a meter at the two-pin plug, where an oxidised crimp imitates a dead thermistor. AF is treated as a duct job rather than a part, and the communication pair starts at the flat ribbon between console and control, which unseats from vibration long before a board fails.

L2 is a reminder that a dryer fault can live in the wall: one pole of the double-pole breaker opening silently, a backed-out lug at the receptacle, a loosened screw on the terminal block. That is not a place for guesswork, and neither is the heat side — gas models keep a supply line and valve behind the same panel as the blower, electric ones run 240 volts to the element. A dryer reporting restricted airflow is describing a duct that needs clearing now. EasyBear covers Maytag dryers across Sacramento and the Bay Area.