Miele KF 8582 SD ED dead…please help!

Hi gang,

Really hope you can help us here as we cannot afford to be without a fridge….or buy a new one 🙁

Basically, we thought we were buying good quality when we moved into our house a few years ago…..but these Miele fridges don’t seem to be all that.

Its a Miele KF 8582 SD ED by the way. Lovely big thing…..way over our budget at the time.

This is our second….the first one failed after 2 years and I gave Miele so much grief they sent a second.

Now, 4 years on….the new one is broken.

Basically, we noticed a couple of days ago that the fridge didn’t seem as cold as usual and only then did we notice that the alarm light was on permanently, lit up red. No alarm sounding.

We then checked the freezer and everything was melted…we had only put a shop in on Saturday, a full shop 🙁 …we had lost the entire fridge/freezers contents…..gutted

Proceeded to empty the fridge….binning the old stuff. Once emptied, I had a good look round the back and while a bit dusty around the radiator and pump, nothing looked out of place.

Compressor started a few times while i was round there….housing was very hot but the radiator at the back was cold.

Pushed it back in and a few hours later its working again?

We had no faith in the fridge at this stage so stuck a fridge thermometer in and it was reading 3 degrees for a while, perfect. But, it failed again today, red light on…..temp of the fridge set to 3 degrees the fridge temperature is 9.5

Its basically a cupboard…….can anyone help us try and find this fault? I am quite good at fixing stuff, but I don’t see much to fix here….looks like a “replace bits” job but I need help working out what.

btw…contacted Miele the day we noted the failure for a call out and Miele UK and Miele Ireland can’t decide who should be looking after us (we are in Northern Ireland)…..utterly pathetic 🙁

Please help gang

Andy