If your Whirlpool Cabrio dryer isn’t heating up, no worries. This tutorial was created to help you figure out what’s wrong with your Whirlpool Cabrio.
The Whirlpool Cabrio is a high efficiency (HE) dryer. There are some upsides and downsides to these HE dryers. One of the upsides is there is an electronic control board that can sometimes help you diagnose your dryer by displaying error codes. These error codes can help you pinpoint the cause of your dryer malfunction. You can find Whirlpool Cabrio error code chart here.
The ironic downside of HE dryers is; they have an electronic control board. Unfortunately, like any other part, these control boards can fail causing your dryer not to heat, to throw an F1 error, or not work at all. The Whirlpool Cabrio has two control boards, the main control board and the board that controls the touch pad. These control boards replaced the electro-mechanical timers that were a much more reliable part. The electro-mechanical timers were less likely to become faulty causing a dryer to not heat up. Lets cross our fingers and hope that your control board isn’t causing your non heating dryer issue.
One nice thing about the Whirlpool Cabrio dryer is it is designed very similar to older Whirlpool brand dryers. Many of the parts that you need to test, can be found in the back of the dryer by simply unscrewing the back panel.
First thing we need to do is check the obvious. Is the dryer not heating up at all? Is the dryer dead? Does the dryer show any fault codes?
How to disassemble
Most common Whirlpool Cabrio parts that fail
- Thermal fuse
- High limit thermostat
- Thermistor
My whirlpool cabrio dryer isn’t heating up and the code showed F20. That code says the thermistor is out, but when I went to order that part it said that isn’t responsible for heating or not heating the dryer. I’m confused. Please help. My serial number is WED5600XW0.
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ok now what….thats it you stop right there….how do I know which part is faulty???!!?!?
how can i test the thermal fuse
My Whirlpool dryer starts the drum goes I can see the element getting red and then it just dies out the dryer does not heat up at all I took off the back panel but I can’t tell what part is bad how do I tell or test fuses elements and such
Dryer not heating up. No noises out of the ordinary. Everything seems normal no heat. Tried to get it to give me codes, followed instructions on website and it did not give me codes.
Model# WED6400SW1
Everything works great but has no heat.
It has no error codes. Vent line is open. Not clogged.
I have a Whirlpool Cabrio Gas Dryer. It is not drying clothes. Gas ignites but shuts off shorty after coming on. Lint is around the inside of the door. Lint screen is clean. Some moisture is on top of the lint screen. Can you tell me I have a thermostat issue?
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We have a Whirlpool Cabrio Resource saver dryer that although it has heat does not dry the clothes using one cycle. We are noe using the manual setting and drying our clothes in very small batches, even then it takes more than one cycle to dery heavy clothes, towels, jeans etc. We call it the clothes tumbler. When we stop ther dryer during the cycle they are warm, just not hot or dry.
The sad thing is we had an electric dryer prior to this thart worked just fine. When we replaced the washer we also replaced the dryer and chenged to gas. We have had the repairman out several times who says it works as designed. We also purchased the extended warrentee.
The gas company sent us a letter stating we are using 25% more gas then our neighbors. We are a family of two, husband and wife.
Very frustrating.
Thank you, finally a site that does not for a credit card before you get an answer. I started to follow some of the information, but the dryer started to work and I heard the gas ignite and heat. All I had to do was unplug and plug it back in. This happen because the bird of paradise heard the rumor I was hunting for it; I wanted to fill it with buck shot.
I found the problem. The vent is only about 18 inches directly out the wall. I wish I could attach the picture of a bird nest with 5 eggs. I need to make sure the cover is on outside!
My Whirlpool Cabrio WGD6200SW2 is not heating. The machine tumbles, light works, moisture sensor is fine, it’s getting gas and there were no codes in diagnostic mode. I checked all switches and the fuse for continuity. All checked good. I disassembled the unit and checked the resistance on the gas valve. Resistance was a little higher than the diagnostic sheet recommended (1365+/-25 ohms). Actual reading was 1409, but outside of that there are no glaring issues. Is there something I missed that is preventing heat?