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Fridge/freezer on the blink. Wh'up?

on the inside or at the very back?

I have to say I love it, it's my new favourite thing in the world :D
 
Is the freezer part spectacularly, unusually, frosted up? If this is the worst it's been I'd try defrosting it - there is some sort of relationship between fridge/freezer/room temperature but I can't remember anything about it (that was helpful :rolleyes:)
 
editor said:
The lower freezer half is still in full ice-tastic cold-as-you-like mode, but the fridge bit has suddenly warmed up, so it's barely providing any chilling at all.
Sounds to me like the thermostat's gone. This happened to a fridge of mine once, and whilst the icebox stayed frozen for a while, that too soon started warming up. Oddly, although the lower fridge was warming up, a huge panel of ice appeared in it at the back. :confused:
 
poster342002 said:
Sounds to me like the thermostat's gone. This happened to a fridge of mine once, and whilst the icebox stayed frozen for a while, that too soon started warming up. Oddly, although the lower fridge was warming up, a huge panel of ice appeared in it at the back. :confused:
That sounds like what's happened here.

Reading around some web forums, it looks like the minimum charge for an engineer is £90 + VAT + parts - it it needs a new circuit board we could be looking at around £200.

I'll give Servis a call later and see what the deal is....
 
It might work out cheaper to buy a new fridge. There's no guarantee a rapair won't fail within days, anyway (as it did in my case - necessatating the purchse of a new fridge anyway :rolleyes: ).
 
poster342002 said:
It might work out cheaper to buy a new fridge. There's no guarantee a rapair won't fail within days, anyway (as it did in my case - necessatating the purchse of a new fridge anyway :rolleyes: ).
I know. I had the same thing happen with a video recorder I got repaired. I just contributing to the throwaway society, but it probably will work out far cheaper and practical to buy a new fridge.
 
e-spares have a fault-finding page on their site and will sell you the bits and pieces to get it working again if you can find out what's wrong with it.


oops - just seen someone else has already posted that. e-spares are good though - they sorted out a bit for me when I wired up our cooker wrong and it melted . . .
 
Our fridge went all weird when e moved to our new flat, my diagnosis of your problem is it's fucked, Currys have a good sale on at the moment and will deliver your new one and recycle your old which i pretty good!
 
sonik said:
Our fridge went all weird when e moved to our new flat, my diagnosis of your problem is it's fucked
You can't beat a good scientific analysis of the problem! :D

But you're right. I reckon it's borked.
 
Rang up Servis. They say it's the thermostat/compressor. Crap company can't recommend any trusted repair companies because I'm not on an extended warranty, so basically they;re saying, "fuck off".

Call out charge of a minimum of £90 + parts + time + screwed it it fucks up three months later = fuck it, I'll buy a new one. :(
 
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