My 5 YO LG Refrigerator 24 Cu/ft French Door/Bottom Freezer with indoor ice and water dispenser has been a rather nice unit. Biggest problem is the icemaker in upper French door which was the capacity for a one or two member family (probably holds about 1/2 cu/ft of ice when full) and runs noisily (not a problem as I'm a bit deaf).
Yesterday, as the 103F temp outside I had no ice - maker had quit functioning. I tried switching unit off and on, which would cause movement in cube tray, but hang up after turning about 1/8 turn, then would return to fill position, except it hadn't dumped any ice. I thought may be it was just a piece of ice keeping it from working, so taped over air holes that feed freezer air to maker and left door of maker open with fridge door shut. No go. After trying all I could think of, went on line to see if could find a solution or to buy another unit ($225 +/-). I had already gone thru all the troubleshooting stated in manual that came with unit - is it on? yes - is water available (yes) - if all yes and no worky - buy a new maker.
I had a call from a neighbor saying she was at store and did I need anything - told her to being me a small bag of ice that I could use until repairs made.
Finally went to LG web site. Same instructions as found in manual along with call for serviceperson if not working. Did some more digging, entered model number, found some more things to try, nothing. Then noticed a small note to check this site if had a particular model (which I had). There was one more thing to try - this model has a well hidden reset button in an obscure back left bottom corner of the icemaker - I even had trouble determining that it was an actual button - pushed it and immediately the ice tub started rocking, I replaced the ice recepticle and low and behold it dumped the ice and refilled with water. Checked this AM and it's still making ice.
My bitch is why this isn't in the manual and difficult to find on LG site. I damn near ordered a new icemaker I didn't need. Had I not been such a cheapskate and kept looking for answers (even watching the You Tube "How To" for this unit), I'd have blown $225 +/- and never knew I wasted my money.
I can just imagine the many people that have had a service call made and tech dicks around with ice maker, charges $100 for pushing a reset button and never telling the owner what he did OR just saying you need a new icemaker with install at about $500 for the two, then taking the old icemaker and selling on ebay (Ebay had a used one for $89 and new up to $300). Surely, I'm not the only one that has had this problem and one would think that it would be stated clearly and openly rather than buried on their web site.
Vent done.
My LG Refrigerator..........Hmmmmm!
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