Need LG Refrigerator repair

[affald]

Any recommendations for someone to troubleshoot an LG that does not cool anymore, both refrigerator and freezer. Compressor seems to hum. Thank you. Northern villages area.

[UpNorth]

Any recommendations for someone to troubleshoot an LG that does not cool anymore, both refrigerator and freezer. Compressor seems to hum. Thank you. Northern villages area.

I would suggest shopping for a new refrigerator. LG compressors are notorious to fail and are very expensive to replace. There was a class action lawsuit some time ago. If yours is not under warranty, you can expect to pay around $1000 or more to replace it.
Ours went after about only 3 years of use.

[asianthree]

Our LG same problem, called for service, bluntly told, not worth paying a service call. Repair and call would be at least $850.

Best Buy had a sale, $1200 for whirlpool with free removal and delivery. $300 in gift cards. So new fridge and $300 used to buy a new iPad.

[bsloan1960]

I would suggest shopping for a new refrigerator. LG compressors are notorious to fail and are very expensive to replace. There was a class action lawsuit some time ago. If yours is not under warranty, you can expect to pay around $1000 or more to replace it.
Ours went after about only 3 years of use.
Already checked with TV Warranty Dept? Call to GE told us 1 year was expired. Call to Villages Warranty told us special volume purchases give us 18 months- gave us special direct GE/Villages phone number. Yup fixed Free. 3 months later GE mailed us a notice that we had 3 years coverage. It pays to make more than one phone call.

[Topspinmo]

Any recommendations for someone to troubleshoot an LG that does not cool anymore, both refrigerator and freezer. Compressor seems to hum. Thank you. Northern villages area.

This might help on next purchase so you don’t get the same thing.

Appliance411 The Purchase: Who Makes What? (http://www.appliance411.com/purchase/make.shtml)

[photo1902]

Any recommendations for someone to troubleshoot an LG that does not cool anymore, both refrigerator and freezer. Compressor seems to hum. Thank you. Northern villages area.

I highly recommend this person. Robert "Bob", and his son.

Appliance Repair The Villages | |Bob's Appliance Repair| Wildwood (https://www.bobsappliancerepairthevillages.com/)

[rtime]

We had a problem with a LG 4 door about a month or so ago. It was no longer cooling. One of the local repairmen told us to call LG as soon as found out it was an LG. I call LG 800-243-0000 and asked for customer service. They helped us right away, we had to take a couple pictures of the serial number and model. This was on a Friday and we received a call from a LG repairman and on Monday we had a new compressor. It was a line out of the compressor that was leaking. There was no cost to us. I can't tell you how nice it was to work with LG.

[Janeyp]

Call LG! Had the same issue. Repaired quickly by LG at no charge.

[Normal]

From what you have said, your compressor still works. The problem then would be refrigerant. A leak would need to be located, repaired, then vacuumed and refilled. This is costly. Then you have the issue of possible cavitation damage to the compressor even though the motor is energized and working. Oil seems to migrate out of these.

Call Lowe’s for a new one.

[cleosmum]

I highly recommend Jeff Cooper of Affordable Appliance Repair. His number is 850-508-2652. Good luck!

[dcianciolo]

Any recommendations for someone to troubleshoot an LG that does not cool anymore, both refrigerator and freezer. Compressor seems to hum. Thank you. Northern villages area.

I don't know if your LG fridge is covered but I had this occur 1 yrs ago with a fridge. It appears that LG tried to make good by extending part warranties out to 10yrs. I had my compressor replaced at zero dollars. Do your research on the web.

[retiredguy123]

I don't know if your LG fridge is covered but I had this occur 1 yrs ago with a fridge. It appears that LG tried to make good by extending part warranties out to 10yrs. I had my compressor replaced at zero dollars. Do your research on the web.
Didn't you need to pay for the labor? If so, how much was that?

[brewbob]

Replace the defrost time. Cheap part(less than $20) and might fix the problem. Good luck.

Bob

[Berwin]

Back in Virginia, we bought a new LG refrigerator and the ice maker went out while still under warranty. Service tech could not get the repair part so we had to get one of those ice makers that sit on the counter. Several years later we were having some remodeling done and the contractor was able to get a complete ice maker and replaced the whole unit. Our LG TV went out and the service tech was able to get it going again but a year later - out again. These incidents were 10-15 years ago. For those who are old enough to remember, LG actually stands for Lucky / Goldstar - two of the most notoriously cheap and unreliable brands to come out of Korea. They seem to have gotten their act together these days though, and are on the leading edge but I still avoid them having been burned twice before.

[Ptmcbriz]

Go on LG website and put in your zip code. They will show you the certified trained LG repair services in the area.

[vonbork]

Any recommendations for someone to troubleshoot an LG that does not cool anymore, both refrigerator and freezer. Compressor seems to hum. Thank you. Northern villages area.
I was told by a repair person after my LG died a month ago that if the fridge was manufactured before June 2013, no parts would be available so the only option was to replace

[Glewellen]

Make sure cooling coils aren’t clogged with dust. Easy diy fix.

[frayedends]

I haven't had an LG in a while. The one I had was horrible. But when I had the problem, the freezer was iced up. Couldn't see it because the ice was behind the plastic at the back of the freezer. It was a french door style, freezer on the bottom. I'd recommend first removing everything and giving the freezer a good defrost. If that fixes it then you are good to go, but may need that defrost timer thing replaced as mentioned in a previous post, if it happens again.

[OhioBuckeye]

It just seems like NO appliance last like the did. We have a GE dishwasher that kicks out it’s circuit breaker everytime it finishes washing the dishes.I’m thinking it’s a Heater that’s bad. Or I’m going to put a none GFI breaker in. I know you’re not suppose to if the breaker has anything to do with controlling anything that has to do with water. I did this with our refrigerator because everytime we were away on vacation & we had a power surge it would kick out all of our GFI breakers, & that was 14 breakers, 5 of them wouldn’t reset, & refrigerator was one of them. How stupid was that to have your Refrigerator on a GFI & spoiling everything in the Fridge. Nothing is like it use to be!

[HogPilot]

Any recommendations for someone to troubleshoot an LG that does not cool anymore, both refrigerator and freezer. Compressor seems to hum. Thank you. Northern villages area.

Our LG had the same issue after 10 years of uninterrupted use. Too costly to repair. It was the largest (33 cf) on the market at the time. Couldn’t replace it, had to settle with one smaller.

[rothbear]

Do not, under any circumstances, purchase a Fridgidaire. Paid about $2600 for a Professional model and it started making a loud screeching noise at 3 weeks. Called CS and after going back and forth for 15 minutes due to language barrier, I finally got them to schedule a repair person in a couple of days. However they were 1.5 hours away and never showed up or called. Called the dealer and they were confused as to why those people were scheduled. They called one of their contractors but couldn't come for 2 weeks. Then it took 3 visits and 2 ordered parts at a 2 week wait inbetween each. In the meantime Fridgidaire decided that maybe they should send someone else since the first person never showed up, but when they contacted me I cancelled due to the fact the dealer guy was "working" on it. It's been 6 months now and every time it makes a funny noise I cringe.

Other problems.....Air filter cover kept falling off and since the filter goes into the cover, that made it useless until I finally got CS to send me a new one. Various design "flaws" that makes it inconvenient to use. Moral....Never buy something they don't have in stock from looking at a lower model.

[jerry van]

I would suggest shopping for a new refrigerator. LG compressors are notorious to fail and are very expensive to replace. There was a class action lawsuit some time ago. If yours is not under warranty, you can expect to pay around $1000 or more to replace it.
Ours went after about only 3 years of use.

May want to consider a protection program, we've had good luck with the one sears offers.