ray_miller41•27d agoMost Upvoted

TIL most ice maker failures are just a frozen water line, not the unit itself

Ran a call last week on a 2-year-old fridge where the ice maker stopped completely, and after 45 minutes of testing I found the line was frozen solid from a kink behind the unit. A hairdryer fixed it in 5 minutes and saved the customer $400 for a new ice maker. Anybody else run into this more often than you'd expect?

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hall.nina27d ago

Monday morning I had a customer swear their ice maker was dead, turned out their dog had chewed the plastic line right near the floor. Nobody ever checks for pet damage before calling a repairman, but it's way more common than a frozen line in my experience. A roll of electrical tape wrapped around the leak got them by until the new line came in the mail.

grant_allen8527d ago

Fixin a kink with a hair dryer is one of those tricks that makes you look like a wizard.

robin_roberts8427d ago

That 45 minutes of testing paid off big time for the customer, I've had the same thing happen more times than I can count." "I once spent a whole afternoon on a freezer that wasn't making ice and it was just a tiny kink in the plastic line behind the fridge.