Repairing a fridge?

[zcacogp]

Chaps,

We have a fridge-freezer which has packed up. Well, more accurately, the freezer is fine but the fridge is not convincingly below room temperature.

It's at least six years old (bought second-hand) ... how would you go about diagnosing and fixing such a thing? (Is there anything that often goes wrong and is easily looked at, for instance). Or would we do better to simply push off to John Lewis/cheap-kitchen-appliances.com and buy a new one?

Thanks ...


Oli.

[Chris Peacock]

Bin it....all white goods have an rough life of 5 years.....if you spend 150 quid on it then the compressor goes pop, your not going to be happy.

[AlexanderV8]

My fridge-freezer started doing the same thing - freezer fine but fridge warming up. I did some research and on my particular model was advised to switch it off for at least 2 days and then try it again. What happens sometimes is that they ice up in the insulation where some temperature sensors are. This can apparently throw the readings to the control circuit & cause the problem.

I did this and much to my surprise it worked & is still working several weeks later. The FF is almost 3 years old & if I have to do this every so often, so be it. Luckily though I have an overspill freezer in the garage for contents while it was off.

[zcacogp]

Chris Peacock said:

Bin it....all white goods have an rough life of 5 years.....if you spend 150 quid on it then the compressor goes pop, your not going to be happy.

Sage advice of the sort I need. Thanks.

AlexV8 - thanks also. It is more than twice the age of yours and I suspect nature has run it's course ... but thanks for the advice anyway.


Oli.