LG French door fridge freezer not freezing

Hello Dan, Is Your Fan in your freezer compartment on ? sometimes the evaporator coils will freeze up not letting the air cool the refrigerator

What it the reason that my fridge is freezing my food. The temp. IS set to 37 F. Why

Hi there,
A fridge is divided by many parts. if the main motor dies then the whole fridge will not function. In your case the freezer is still working but the rest isnt. Still, i think you should have it checked out by a repairman to determine any inside problem and to avoid any future trouble.

there may be a problem with the water lines or bottles in the fridge compartment is frozen raise the temp in the fridges to about 38 for a couple of days and this should unthaw the lines

How to check everything
http://www.acmehowto.com/howto/appliance/refrigerator/refrigerator.php


The fridge gets its cold air from the freezer through a vent(damper) between the freezer and fridge.The fan in the freezer blows air through it. Make sure this fan is running. You may have to hold the door switch in for it to run. There is a flap you adjust with the fridge temp. control. Make sure it's opening and closing when you adjust the fridge temp.
The problem could be the electronic control if you have one or the mechanical linkages.

This error appears when the fridge goes into defrost mode (after a few hours of initial startup and therefore a sign that your PCB is probably just fine). Look into the thermostor in the freezer compartment (mine was bad, a $2 part from Radio Shack), the defrost heating element or the temperature sensor in the freezer compartment.

Possibly the defrost element is faulty, this is located behind a cover in the back of the freezer compartment and is attached to the fins of the evaporator. It also has a defrost limit thermostat which could also be the problem. I presume that the fan is working after you have defrosted the unit?

I had the same issue. It was the relay overload which essentially provides the extra boost to get the compressor going. The switch tries for about 10 seconds before giving up and then retries 3 - 4 minutes later. In the early stages of failure, eventually it will work and the compressor will kick on. But eventually the switch will fail and will just cycle through the 10 second attempt every 3 to 4 minutes. The part is about $35 - part number 67005560.

If you are sure the fan in the freezer is running and you don't feel any air flow out of the top middle vent inside the fridge section, then the damper motor must be bad. The damper motor is behind that vent cover inside the fridge section.

do not purchase lg refrigerators or products. they are junk!