Refrigerator stopped making ice
 

My kitchen aide French door refrigerator stopped making ice. I checked the obvious.. Is it frozen, does the water still work, turned off the icemaker for 24 hours. Any suggestions before I call for repair?

Sorry if what I say is part of your obvious..............I had a Kenmore and it would freeze up. It would freeze right where the water came into the freezer (from the insulated freezer wall). At first, I would get everything out of the freezer, eat everything in the refrig and shut the unit off for 24 hours. This worked. Than I got lazy and maybe stupid..............I would shout the unit off and use a hairdryer on the critical point. It would unfreeze the plug in less than 10 minutes.

When my GE stopped making ice, I called the GE guy since the fridge was under warranty. He looked at it and told me I had stuff blocking the flow of air in the main refrigerator. Some of the cans and bottles had "moved" to the back and were blocking the flow of air. I moved everything up and made sure there was a gap between the back of the fridge and the back wall of the fridge. It started working again. Now everything it stops, I just make sure there is a gap between the stuff in the fridge and the back wall.

You would have thought that if this was a design criteria, there would have a ridge at the back of the shelves to keep the stuff from hitting the wall of the fridge.

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My ice maker stopped working suddenly about 18 months ago. I have a standard ice maker in the freezer, no dispenser in the door. Instead of calling for repair, I decided to investigate my problem online. I found a suggestion that said to pour hot water in the ice maker. It was cheaper that paying a for a repair, so I gave it a try. I was pleasantly surprised when it worked!!! That simple idea saved me a repair bill.

Ours stopped working, tried all of the online suggestions, nothing worked. Called Beck's Appliance repair. He had the part on the truck and completed the repair in about 1/2 hour. In our case, the unit that forces the cubes out of the maker had failed. You can reach Rick Beck at 352 245 3598, he is very good.

The icemaker might have an option to turn down the temperature a bit, if you think it's freezing too hard. The one on mine is a small setting that needs a screwdriver to turn it up or down.

We have a whirlpool, there are no adjustments on the ice maker unit, there are settings that can be accessed on the front door, and one of the online hints was to raise the freezer temperature a few degrees, as this could eliminate the water freezing in the fill tube.
Rick told me and the internet reviews confirmed that ice makers are the highest failure rate in refrigerators with through the door ice makers being the worst units.
Hope this helps.

Before you pay anyone.....

check out youtube......they have a answer and a repair video for just about everything. personnally we would be lost without them....

Thanks for all your help..again

I had the same problem, They replaced a chip in the computer.

Some models have the water delivery tube travelling thru the bottom section of the unit. If there are products stored in the bottom tray in the freezer door, it may keep the wall too cold and the water line to the ice maker freezes. Stopped storing things in that area, since then NO PROBLEMS.

We had the same thing happen to our icemaker. It turned out that the sensor for cooling had gone bad. Check the temperature in your refrigerator (ours almost went down to 32 degrees).

Just had that problem last week. Replaced the water filter and it fixed the problem. One indication of that being the problem is if the water through the door seems to have slowed good luck!

I had a cube "jammed" in the mechanism.

Same problem. Easy fix. Used a hair dryer on the water source line point where it entered the freezer.

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