Dishwasher pump stuck on open this morning - any ideas?

Question

Had been on the long wash overnight, I found it stuck halfway through the rinse cycle this morning, pump whirring away.

I've advanced the timer step by step - no difference, keeps pumping, inspected the timer while advancing with the door switch jammed, timer ticks fine, and the cogs and sliding elements all seem to work - the tablet door flips open at the right time (but at no stage did the water inlet open or the booms start spinning), but the pump keeps whirring throughout, even in the timers off position.

I poured a jug of water in the drain and It pumped it away fine.

I've had to come to work now, and I'm 'allowed' to look at it when I get home tonight, but if I cant sort it by tomorrow I'll be sent out for a new one:

"just think of the carbon cost! Its my environmental responsibility to try and fix things before replacing them"

"you've got one night"

Does the pump have a sensor, which may have something wet and slimy stuck in it, that would override everything else?

if so any ideas where it might be, or ideas/diagnostics otherwise? Its an indesit D63 Dishwasher, ~4 years old.

The future of the planet is at stake.

Answer 1

Pull the dishwasher out and trip back 45degrees this will drain the under tray and the machine will start to work. There may well be a problem with the dishwasher which will return, so you may well have the problem re occur, in this case you will need to call and engineer, but for now this will delay the end of the planet.

Answer 2

call a plummer??

Answer 3

For £100 nowadays u can get a new one. Trust me not worth the hassle or the grief from the wife! Unless ofcourse u don;t have a woman in which case I would tell yah to sit it out!

Answer 4

been on a few sites indesit d63 c**p buy bosch had mine 9 years no problems yet