Lg French Door Refrigerator Compressor Problems

Greetings i have an lg refrigerator that is less than 4 years old.

Lg french door refrigerator compressor problems.

We noticed the problem after water started leaking from one of the doors which turned out to be ice melting. 1 condenser coil issue this problem occurs when the condenser coil of the fridge is dirty. In sept 2016 it stopped cooling for the first time. The condenser coil is the part of the lg refrigerators at the back that looks like a coiled pipe.

Hired a technician lg recommended repair service tech who diagnosed the problem as a bad compressor. Lg electronics has been hit with a class action lawsuit alleging a defect is causing the fridges to stop cooling sometimes within only a few years of use. Refrigerator compressor problems lg french door. If the cooling system fans and compressor are running but the refrigerator or freezer is not cooling correctly check for an airflow or defrost system problem.

Anyone who owns an lg refrigerator and had problems with the linear compressor a part responsible for cooling the appliance. Our 2019 survey shows that lg french doors are an outlier for compressor problems with 8 percent of lg french doors in our sample having such problems compared with 3 percent of refrigerators. According to the class action suit the issues with lg s refrigerators stem primarily from a problem with the linear compressor that the company uses.