Point Loma Sub-Zero SpecialistsPoint Loma, CA

Common fault

Why has my ice maker stopped making ice?

Short answer

Pick a cube up before anybody quotes you a part. Light, crescent-shaped or hollowed out in the middle means the mold was still filling when the cycle moved on, and that is water: a filter nobody has dated, pressure that has fallen away at the valve, or a fill tube iced down to a straw. No ice whatsoever, in a cabinet that is still freezing perfectly well, sends us the other way: to the module, its mold thermostat, or the ejector motor. Those are opposite repairs, which is why the cube comes first. In the older Point Loma houses there is a third possibility sitting behind the first, because the line feeding the refrigerator was added long after the house was plumbed and hard water has been narrowing it ever since.

Pressure at the valve is the measurement everything else depends on, so it happens early. A refrigerator feed in Loma Portal or the Wooded Area is nearly always an afterthought: small-bore line teed in wherever was easiest at the time, taken a long way round, often through a valve nobody has touched since the day it was fitted. Scale collects at every restriction along that route. The machine then fills fractionally short on each cycle, the control has no means of noticing, and the bin fills with cubes that look convincing until one caves in between your fingers. Putting a new module on a line like that changes precisely nothing.

If nothing is coming out and the cabinet is still cold, we move to the harvest side. The module drives the ejector arm and calls for the next fill, the mold thermostat decides when the ice is cold enough to release, the motor does the physical work. Any one of the three can stop and from outside the cabinet the symptom is identical. Before condemning any of them we thaw and inspect the fill tube, because a tube frozen closed produces the same total silence for a fraction of the money, and on models built with a fill tube heater that heater gets tested at the same time.

If that matches what your appliance is doing, say so when you call — it tells us which parts to bring, and most of these are finished in one visit.

The panel comes off before anything is quoted — diagnosis in a Point Loma kitchen
The panel comes off before anything is quoted — diagnosis in a Point Loma kitchen

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Appliance down in Point Loma?

Tell us the brand and what it is doing — we can usually name the likely repair before we arrive.

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