Kenmore Coldspot 106.5178 ice-maker issue
Jun. 9th, 2022 01:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solarbirdI made the subject like that to help people trying to search for this problem later, don't mind it.
Our refrigerator's icemaker quit working (Kenmore Coldspot 106.5178 (full model 106.51782412) counter-depth side by side refrigerator) and it's still a fairly recent refrigerator, not long out of warranty. I kind of assumed there was an issue with it freezing up somehow, so went looking for the exploded diagrammes to see how to take out the freezer compartment's back panel, or just in general how to get to the icemaker, and I found them, but they weren't helpful.
So then I went to youtube and stumbled across this video about a dead ice maker in a Whirlpool and the way the icemaker worked looked familiar, and goddamn am I glad he posted that thing because it is almost identical to mine, and the actual problem is the wiring harness connecting the icemaker to the door literally tearing its own wires apart.
It's shit design and it's basically identical to my refrigerator and yep, opening the fucking freezer door slowly tears this wiring harness apart. And not over that long a period of time, either.
Goddammit it, Whirlpool. This implementation is bullshit and you know it. Fuck you.
Anyway, here's a post that'll hopefully make this a little easier for someone else to find later.
Our refrigerator's icemaker quit working (Kenmore Coldspot 106.5178 (full model 106.51782412) counter-depth side by side refrigerator) and it's still a fairly recent refrigerator, not long out of warranty. I kind of assumed there was an issue with it freezing up somehow, so went looking for the exploded diagrammes to see how to take out the freezer compartment's back panel, or just in general how to get to the icemaker, and I found them, but they weren't helpful.
So then I went to youtube and stumbled across this video about a dead ice maker in a Whirlpool and the way the icemaker worked looked familiar, and goddamn am I glad he posted that thing because it is almost identical to mine, and the actual problem is the wiring harness connecting the icemaker to the door literally tearing its own wires apart.
It's shit design and it's basically identical to my refrigerator and yep, opening the fucking freezer door slowly tears this wiring harness apart. And not over that long a period of time, either.
Goddammit it, Whirlpool. This implementation is bullshit and you know it. Fuck you.
Anyway, here's a post that'll hopefully make this a little easier for someone else to find later.
no subject
Date: 2022-06-09 09:26 pm (UTC)MBAs say "genius!"
no subject
Date: 2022-06-09 10:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-06-09 11:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-06-09 11:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-06-10 12:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-06-10 01:28 pm (UTC)Had to buy a new fridge earlier this year. I was told before purchase that although I had chosen and paid for an ice maker there was not one in it yet. That when they got the ice makers in mine would be installed at my home, no charge.
Later research showed that this is a general problem caused by the chip shortage. (Why have chips in ice makers? Their functions should be entirely electro-mechanical!)
no subject
Date: 2022-06-11 12:20 am (UTC)