Given the price of fixing an Electrolux ice maker, turn off the water to the fridge and buy some old fashioned ice cube trays. I want to fix it so it actually works. Electrolux French door bottom freezer refrigerators had so many ice maker problems there was a lawsuit regarding it. You’d think they’d have a recall for it.
A recall costs more than two thousand dollars per fridge. But that design of fridge put the ice maker in the refrigerator or fresh food compartment, so it couldn’t keep things cold. I don’t have that design, though it is obvious a fridge isn’t intended to keep things frozen.
If the ice maker breaks, you can ask for a repair kit, though it can take customer service weeks to get it to you. At that rate, I’d be better off using ice cube trays. But what causes all these ice maker problems? In the French door refrigerator model, the water reservoir tends to freeze. You end up with cracked plastic, broken mechanical parts and so forth. I can prevent that by running the ice maker more often as well as the water dispenser.
If the ice maker doesn’t work from the get-go, get it serviced under the warranty as soon as possible so it might get fixed before the warranty expires. I’ve already heard jokes about how many visits it takes to fix it. You also end up paying most of the cost of the next visit if the first fix doesn’t fix it. Repeat service shouldn’t be necessary on an appliance this expensive.
Part of it is them not taking your word for it that what broke last time is what broke this time. But you are prone to having to put in a whole new water dispenser and ice maker in French door Electrolux fridges each time it has a mechanical failure. At least they have a kit you can install to correct the problem. Another problem is that they’ll keep replacing the ice maker unit under warranty while you pay the labor every time because they don’t want to have to replace the whole fridge.
That’s more a cost saving move on their part. What are the signs I do need a new ice maker? The fans are always noisy before freezing up. That’s rather funny given that the fan is in the freezer. The ice maker often refuses to fill though the water reservoir is prone to freezing. And this isn’t due to a leaky water line to the ice maker, though all Electrolux fridges are prone to condensate. Read reviews on best home ice maker
That’s due to poor air flow inside the fridge. It can also be due to insufficient drain tubes. It isn’t due to clogged water filters and insufficient water pressure, though their customer service likes to blame that. I’ve heard it could be due to the filters. If the water filters are clogged, you’ll see a decrease in both water dispensing and ice making. However, their water filters do crack and freeze periodically.
I can reduce the odds of that by using the dispenser often and changing the filters regularly. True, but filters that crack leak water when it thaws and dispenses water. And something built to dispense frozen water on command shouldn’t be this error prone.
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