Oster BVSTDCDR5B - Troubleshooting; Coffee Maker Troubleshooting Guide

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TROUBLESHOOTING
Your Oster
®
appliance has been carefully designed to give you many years of trouble
free service. In the unlikely event that your new appliance does not operate satisfactorily,
please review the following potential problems BEFORE you call or take it to an
Authorized Oster
®
Service Center.
Potential Problems Probable Cause
“On” light does not illuminate
• Unplugged
• Power outage
Coffee is not brewing
• Unplugged
• Power outage
• The water reservoir is empty; check
water window
• The removable basket is not properly
inserted
• Carafe is not placed completely on the
warming plate
Coffee maker only brews water
• No grounds in permanent lter
Coffee maker brews slowly
• Coffee maker needs cleaning
Removable basket overows
• The removable basket is not properly
inserted
• Carafe is not placed completely on the
warming plate
• Carafe lid not on carafe
• Too many grounds placed in permanent
lter
• Carafe was removed from warming
plate for longer than 30 seconds
Burning coffee smell
• Empty carafe was left on hot warming plate
• Coffee was spilled on a warming plate
Coffee is not hot
• Power outage
Coffee tastes bad
• Coffee ground other than for automatic-
drip coffee maker was used
• Ground coffee-to-water ratio was
unbalanced
Grounds are in coffee
• Permanent lter not properly placed in
removable basket
• Permanent lter overowed