When not attending to garden tasks what other things have filled your day?

Repaired my refrigerator by myself - Never going to buy anything of Samsung again in life. They were a good manufacturer of such appliances, but around a decade ago they've really started letting down their customers.

So after waiting for 2 weeks (believe it or not) for their repairman to arrive - I decided to give up on him, and just take matters into my own hands!

I decided to do it myself, and say to hell with the warranty. When a few people told me that they are now billing everyone extra for their service charges. Even through your repairs don't cost anything as long as you're under warranty - They still try to squeeze a little extra out of you. Like transportation and handling charges. Besides, they now talke over a month.

But now the problem was, that these new (allegedly smart) refrigerators have too many electronics in them. So unless I got to see the workshop manual, I'll be lost in the dark. Because I couldn't make any sense of the error code, (blinking lights at the back).

Thankfully, a former Samsung repair guy who's now become a tattletale - Decided to out all the secrets of Samsung on YouTube. So that's how I learned what the blinking lights were telling me.

So I simply went to the refrigeration and air conditioning spare parts market, and got the new thermostat for the bottom compartment.

Now everything is working fine again. And that too at the cost of having a roadside snack. While Samsung would have charged me thousands, plus would have taken a month - Therefore this is the absolute last time item of Samsung in my house, (this and the microwave). Never again am I now going to buy anything from them in life!

Funny thing though, that just when I finally fixed my refrigerator. I got a call from their "official repair guy" asking when would be a good time to arrive? I said come on over anytime. So when he finally did, I let him rot outside under the hot sun, (didn't answer the bell he was ringing). Until he finally gave up and left. Then I complained to Samsung, that your repairman still hasn't arrived, (since they don't know that I've violated their warranty, they are duty bound to give me service) - So I think I'll keep on tormenting them like this, until I get bored.





If anyone else too is unfortunate enough to have a Samsung refrigerator, and like me have also been let down by their after sales service - Than here is the video to learn of their error codes. After which you'll have no trouble identifying the problem, and replacing the faulty part at your own leisure.

 

That part suffered a lot of heat! Why?

 

That's not heat @Dirtmechanic , it's rust, corrosion. There were many power failures at odd times in the area. Which ruined the defrost cycle.

Therefore the whole thing got iced up from the inside. So had to turn it off for 72 hours, until the entire blockage of ice melted away - The damage occurred during this when it got wet. I'm sure of it now.

When I turned it on, the freezer section was working fine, but the lower refrigerator section was dead...

I ruled out refrigerant leak, (cooling gas), because the top freezer section was working fine. So it was either the fan which got ruined, heater failure, or thermostat - What other parts are there in a refrigerator?

What I didn't want to do was start replacing parts at random. Because not only is that wasteful, it might have done something to the sensitive electronics. So I didn't want to take any chances.

Therefore I decided to investigate what the error code was saying? However I didn't have any workshop manual for this particular refrigerator model - Thankfully a tattletale traitor (former employee of Samsung) blabbed out all the error codes for Samsung refrigerators. That's how I discovered that it was the thermostat. So I went to the market, got a replacement, installed it. And it's been working fine since.

I did violate the warranty by doing this, obviously. But since Samsung's after sales services are so poor, and my repairing skills better and quicker - I'm not feeling bad about it.

Hope anyone else in such distress, who too is deliberately made to suffer by Samsung's repair crew - Finds this post helpful.