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Old 09-12-2015, 04:00 PM
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NEVER buy a LG refrigerator with ice maker unless you want to buy your ice in a plastic bag at Publix. This is our second LG and they both have had problems with the ice maker. I was able to fix this one, for a while, by applying heat from a hair dryer and it started working. It has conked out again so do I pay $100 for a tech to fix it or buy more ice at Publix? Their trouble shooting tips on the website are the same as in the manual.. Is it on? Does the fridge have water supply? Is the door closed? Duh!
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NEVER buy a LG refrigerator with ice maker unless you want to buy your ice in a plastic bag at Publix. This is our second LG and they both have had problems with the ice maker. I was able to fix this one, for a while, by applying heat from a hair dryer and it started working. It has conked out again so do I pay $100 for a tech to fix it or buy more ice at Publix? Their trouble shooting tips on the website are the same as in the manual.. Is it on? Does the fridge have water supply? Is the door closed? Duh!
Our LG icemaker does work but only makes 10 tiny cubes at a time. We continually have to buy bagged ice to supplement our ice use.
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Old 09-12-2015, 09:32 PM
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Can't you use regular ice cube trays for your ice?
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I'm really surprised to hear this. The quality of most LG products is outstanding. They must not do ice makers very well.
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Oh so good to know when I have to replace my much hated very noisy KitchenAid. Thanks for the info.
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We have the LG that has two icemakers...one large one below and a small one in the drawer. We love it. No problems at all....(knock on wood). The best thing it has is the "door in a door"...love that feature....The reviews on it seem better than the Samsung, etc....sorry you are having issues with yours....
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Old 09-13-2015, 10:14 AM
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No problem wit our LG with ice maker. We do have a problem with water (condensation?) under the bottom drawers in the refrigerator compartment. Not a serious problem but annoying.
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Old 09-13-2015, 10:35 AM
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We had an LG, top of the line french door that caught fire in 2009. It was 15 months old. You know the light that "comes on" when you open the door and "goes off' when you close it? Well our quit going off. We had no idea. We had natural gas and started to smell a weird smell, thinking it was the gas we went to great lengths to check out our range. Then we opened the refrigerator and the plastic ceiling had melted and was hanging like icecicles onto the food items on the top shelf. the light was burnt and charred. Any way..... it was a bit scary.
LG stood behind the refrigerator and gave us the newest latest and greatest model. It had LED lighting. It was the incandescent (or fluorescent light) that never went out.

We have an LG washer and dryer now and love it and we felt that handled our fried refrigerator well, obviously a design flaw.....Bet this ice maker issue is too. It would be interesting to google your model number and see how many other owners have the same problem. You could then write to the company about this being a well documented problem. That might get their attention, and a solution. I bet it is a design flw with your model that many others have had to deal with too.
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I'm really surprised to hear this. The quality of most LG products is outstanding. They must not do ice makers very well.
They don't do refrigerators period very well. More than the ice maker broke on our LG French door. Refrigerators are tricky.

We learned our lesson with the first one and switched brands down here. Also, their top-of-the-line dishwasher was the worst dw we ever had.
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