Posted: 4/1/2007 4:34:12 PM EDT
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Here's the deal, the upper freezer still works but the bottom fridge part won't get cold at all. Any ideas? |
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Between the upper part and the lower part is a coil with all kinds of fins on it (Condenser). This is what generates the cold air for the bottom part to work right. Air blows over these fins and enters into the bottom part. Like the A/C on your car sometimes freezes up when you run it full blast, and you have to wait for the condenser to defrost... so does the one in your fridge. Your fridge has a built-in little defrost coil in the middle of the condenser that runs on a timer to defrost your condenser. Sometimes that coil, or the timer quits working. The timer is a little round thing in the back or under there somewhere that looks like a little motor. It has a little hole in the housing so that you can see if it is working. If the fridge is plugged in and it is still spinning, the defrost coil is probably bad. Unplug your fridge for a while. If the coil is frozen up, water will start do drain into the bottom of the fridge and into the pan underneath. Then you know there's something up with the defrosting. Hope this helps! I'm not a fridge mech. or anything. I've just fixed a couple of them with the same symptoms you described. How'd I do Dr. Fridge? 
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