MAKES COFFEE AND GIVES ME A HALF POT OR LESS. TRIED CLEANING IT OUT WHICH DID NOT HELP. HAD THE COFFEE MAKER LESS THAN 6 MONTHS.MAKES COFFEE AND GIVES ME A HALF POT OR LESS. TRIED CLEANING IT OUT WHICH DID NOT HELP. HAD THE COFFEE MAKER LESS THAN 6 MONTHS.
We have only had our FTX41 for a few months. It makes a cup or so then quits and says its done. Tried cleaning it but no help.We have only had our FTX41 for a few months. It makes a cup or so then quits and says its done. Tried cleaning it but no help.
AnonymousJan 08, 2009
We get a cup out of ours before it signals it's ready. Then after about 20 minutes of waiting, we finally have enough for the second cup.
Oh, and Mr. SourAttitude is a moron.We get a cup out of ours before it signals it's ready. Then after about 20 minutes of waiting, we finally have enough for the second cup.
Oh, and Mr. SourAttitude is a moron.
AnonymousApr 08, 2009
Had this coffee maker for three months, and am having the same early shutoff problem. Clearly a manufacturing defect. Good luck gettin any satisfaction out of Mr. Coffee or its parent company, Sunbeam. Mr. Coffee used to have a good product, but today all their offerings are cheap junk. Get a Krups or other more reliable brand, you'll be happier. Joe DiMaggio won't be sending any roses to Mr. Coffee anytime soon .
Had this coffee maker for three months, and am having the same early shutoff problem. Clearly a manufacturing defect. Good luck gettin any satisfaction out of Mr. Coffee or its parent company, Sunbeam. Mr. Coffee used to have a good product, but today all their offerings are cheap junk. Get a Krups or other more reliable brand, you'll be happier. Joe DiMaggio won't be sending any roses to Mr. Coffee anytime soon .
You can't post conmments that contain an email address.
- If you need clarification, ask it in the comment box above.
- Better answers use proper spelling and grammar.
- Provide details, support with references or personal experience.
Tell us some more! Your answer needs to include more details to help people.You can't post answers that contain an email address.Please enter a valid email address.The email address entered is already associated to an account.Login to postPlease use English characters only.
Tip: The max point reward for answering a question is 15.
I think there is a real problem with the whole cleaning system with the Mr. Coffee Pot. I have one and after making only a few pots of coffee, the light starts blinking. I have cleaned it over and over and still get the same alert. My son had the same problem you have with his, it wouldn't finish the cleaning cycle. He'd had it awhile and ended up tossing it because it was beyond the warranty and store told him too bad. I've had other Mr Coffee makers and like them, but they didn't have the irritating "clean" alert OR the obnoxious BEEPING to let you know it's done brewing. If I knew this was going to be an issue - I would never have bought it. Why do they have to screw around with a good thing - more buttons and thing cycles to cause problems.
I was trying to help you out here. Maybe this will help some? I was going backto some customers that asked questions in the recent past and even fartherback. It appeared that no one answeredsome of them, So, I thought I would take some of my personal time to see if Ican help. Even though this Informational site may not have your exact model orbrand, this site will help you a lot. Here is a site link about everything you want to know about CoffeeMakers and possibly yours, from repairto trouble shooting it. b>http://home.howstuffworks.com/coffee-maker4.htm Please if this helped you at all, if you can find the time and in your heart torate my help and some kind words written would be appreciated for my free help, I would appreciate it.
Here is also my direct link to my own pages of other areas of my expertise forother problems you might have in Automotive, Appliance, and Electronics. DropIn anytime for my help.
3 beeps means plugged water line. Take off the bottom of the coffee maker with a small phillips head screwdriver. Use pliers (I used needle nose type) to remove the wire clamps holding on the silicone water tubes to the hot plate. In my case, the water line from the reservoir to the plate was clogged with something I couldn't see until I blew on the hose and it popped out, could have been scale, grounds etc Clean with vinegar. Back in service!
Mine just started to do the exact same thing. So I decided to clean it using the "Clean" program and just water. I put the brewer through the cleaning program 3 times - each time it would brew water from 12 cups to 8 cups, I'd tap the brewer on the countertop, it would brew from 8 cups to 4 cups, tap it again, and it would brew the remaining cups. So, I called the Mr. Coffee help line (800-672-6333). The most-likely problem is that the hose is no longer attached in the water reservoir. The help line suggested that I take it in to a service center. I live in Urbana, IL and the closest service center is in Oak Lawn, IL - 2 hours away from me!!
Here is my solution:
1) Buy another coffee brewer.
or
2) Smash your current Mr. Coffee brewer into a million pieces (this relieves stress) and go buy another coffee brewer (probably stay away from Mr. Coffee products).
Hope this helps.
Frustrated in Urbana
Usually when that happens you need to clean it out w/ white vinegar and water because it's developed a blockage of some kind. I'd recommend 6 cups vinegar and 6 cups water, and brew it through like a normal brew cycle. If you haven't done this at all in the year that you've owned it then it probably won't work completely the first time. You might have to do it quite a few times, and I suggest doing it at least once a month from here to keep the problem from happening again. And remember to always use a fresh solutution each cycle, don't want anything you take out to go back in, you may not get any coffee then! :)
If you like, there's another way you can do it. Put in the solution of vingear and water, start to brew it, and just when you start seeing it drip into your pot, turn off the unit and let it sit for an hour. Soaking it or running it through several cycles can both help, it's up to you how you go about it.
First, are you certain that the coffee basket is clean? If the coffee basket has a valve on the bottom that allows you to remove the carafe to pour a cup of coffee, make sure the valve is clean. Being dirty would cause it to trickle coffee slowly into the carafe, and will hold coffee in the basket too long.
2nd, you may need to flush the water heating system as they can become corroded with precipitated solids from the water. To do this, mix 1 part vinegar to 2 parts water in the carafe. Pour into the coffee maker and tell it to make coffee. Do this a couple of times, using a fresh mix of vinegar and water each time. Pour the used mixture down the drain. When you feel it is clean, follow it up with a fresh pot of water. Then wash and rinse the carafe.
run 2 cups of vinegar through the coffee pot brew it do it twice. this will clean the calcium out. then rince out out and brew one batch of water to clean.
MAKES COFFEE AND GIVES ME A HALF POT OR LESS. TRIED CLEANING IT OUT WHICH DID NOT HELP. HAD THE COFFEE MAKER LESS THAN 6 MONTHS.
We have only had our FTX41 for a few months. It makes a cup or so then quits and says its done. Tried cleaning it but no help.
We get a cup out of ours before it signals it's ready. Then after about 20 minutes of waiting, we finally have enough for the second cup.
Oh, and Mr. SourAttitude is a moron.
Had this coffee maker for three months, and am having the same early shutoff problem. Clearly a manufacturing defect. Good luck gettin any satisfaction out of Mr. Coffee or its parent company, Sunbeam. Mr. Coffee used to have a good product, but today all their offerings are cheap junk. Get a Krups or other more reliable brand, you'll be happier. Joe DiMaggio won't be sending any roses to Mr. Coffee anytime soon .
×