This applies to the Whirlpool-built Kenmore refrigerators, the three-digit prefix on the model number is 106.xxxx.
The situation here is that the freezer is at design temp, defined as 0F, but the beer compartment won’t get cold no matter where you set the temp control. There was a service flash out on these units. [...]

Jedi Appliance Guy explains what’s going on with this annoying ice dispenser problem and how GE is trying to sleaze out of doing the proper repair on their typically-shoddy products.
Yanno, you people who go shopping for the cheap GE crap at the big box stores, like Home Depot, deserve to be burdened with [...]

Models Affected:
All 23/25/27 and 29 cubic foot electronic side-by-side refrigerator units with plastic liners manufactured in 2001 or later. This includes all Profile (Arctica and Eterna… dontcha just love the vacuous names? I guess the marketing boobs rejected Mediocra and Pathetica) models.

Consumer Issues:
Freezing in the vegetable (middle) pan or the CustomCool (bottom) pan, frozen [...]

This affects all 2001 models with “M” as the eighth letter in the model, e.g., PSS25SGM, and those units with serial date code LA4, MA4, RA4, SA4, TA4, VA4, ZA4 & AD4.

When the damper door mechanism breaks (usually in the wide-azz open position), the temperature control can no longer regulate the amount of cold [...]

If your Kenmore model number is a 253.xxxxxxx, then it was built for Kenmore by Frigidaire. Latest survey results from the field show that these compressors are having a failure rate of 92.76%. After these compressors are replaced in the field (usually as a warranty repair), they run fine for years. The [...]

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Steve’s three year old Amana refrigerator is freezing stuff in the crisper drawer and his water dispenser quit working. Is there a connection? Bonus: link to the evaporator fan upgrade kit discussed in this episode.

Amy gunked up her [...]

Been a whole slew of air damper control problems with these fridges. Affected model numbers start with PLHS.

When you turn the thermostat on and off you should be able to hear the damper open and shut. If not, the damper is probably stuck wide-azz open, which will freeze your beer and veggies. [...]

If the icemaker in your 2005 Frigidaire refrigerator won’t make ice unless you jiggle the ejector arm, then you need to replace the icemaker hold switch and cam. There’s a “dead spot” between one contact opening and the other contact closing that causes the icemaker to stop because both contacts are open at the [...]

Some excellent repair advice on this problem from the Sublime Masters of Appliantology in this thread in the repair forum.

This is usually a burned out start relay on the compressor. The function of the start relay is to momentarily energize the start winding in the compressor motor and then cut power to the start winding as soon as the motor is running. In the good ol’ days, these relays were mechanical: heavy [...]

Well, you better come find out! Recall status for Amana, Danby, Whirlpool, Crosley, Maytag, and Woods.

Awwite all you cool grasshoppers, go grab you a beer and the Samurai’ll tell you a story.

Once upon a time, in a place that was called the "land of the free," there was a big ol’ company called Dupont. Now, Dupont made a thang that we old timers held near and dear to [...]

Whenever I’m on a warm refrigerator complaint, here’s the fire drill I follow:

Instruct the customer to step away from the refrigerator as I walk into the kitchen so she can show me how gawd-awful warm it is. Within seconds of opening the door, refrigerator space temperature jumps. See, I’ll use my infrared thermometer [...]

If you have a GE refrigerator that has a good n’ cold freezer but the beer compartment can’t get your beer tooth-crackin’ cold anymore, it’s probably something simple that you can fix yourself, right here, right now.

Got a perplexing defrosting problem with your refrigerator? Our good friend, Moostafa, helps a grasshopper troubleshoot a defrosting problem in his GE refrigerator.