Kenmore Refrigerator Repair in Philadelphia

To repair a Kenmore refrigerator well, you start with the hardware: Whirlpool, Electrolux and LG built most Kenmore refrigerators. LG often made the Elite French-door models.

Our Kenmore refrigerator jobs mostly come down to ice makers on LG-built models, defrost problems on Frigidaire-built models, evaporator fan motors, and compressor start relays. When people call, they typically report one of these: warm fridge section, ice maker empty or iced up, and noisy fan. Locate the model number on the interior wall and write down the three-digit prefix; it reveals whether the fridge is a Frigidaire, Whirlpool or LG design. Clicking every few minutes without any cooling is the classic sign of a start relay or overload that keeps trying, and failing, to start the compressor.

One symptom on a Kenmore refrigerator can call for different parts depending on whether Whirlpool, Electrolux or LG designed it, so parts are ordered by cross-referencing the Kenmore model number to the original platform. Elite French-door models built by LG use LG's compressor and in-door ice compartment designs, and Frigidaire-built units have fan and defrost layouts of their own. Because many Kenmore refrigerators still running are older, whether the specific part can be found matters as much as the fault itself.

Philadelphia's moderately hard water leaves some scale in the inlet valve and filter housing over the years, which shows up as a slow dispenser or small cubes on a refrigerator with an ice maker. Coils, fan operation, defrost parts and the start relay all get checked before the word compressor comes up.

Frost across the back wall of a warm 253-prefix Kenmore refrigerator usually signals the kind of defrost fault common on units Frigidaire built. The defrost problems on Frigidaire-built models and repairs like it are quoted in writing before we start.

Change the water filter on the schedule in the manual rather than waiting for the indicator light. Calls about noisy fan are a good example of why we diagnose Kenmore refrigerators before ordering anything.