Bosch frost-free freezer, duff compressor?

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Hi, I have a Bosch frost free freezer, GSU3401GB/52, about 3 years old.
The compressor has been iffy for a while, making repeated attempts to start and tripping out on a PTC or thermostat. It sounds like a thermostat from the metallic click. Sometimes you’d hear the compressor juddering and turning for 5 seconds or so, other times it sounded like it had stalled.

Now it won’t go. SWMBO has been ringing around and has been told they’re difficult/impossible to repair, parts unobtainable, grossly expensive, etc.. It looks like a bog-standard compressor to me, I can’t see the problem. I’m sure it’s not the electronics.

Is this true, or doesn’t anyone want to do the job before Xmas?

[gegsy]

Re: Bosch frost-free freezer, duff compressor?

Could be electronics 😕 Comps are pretty good on these IMHO 😀

Greg

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Re: Bosch frost-free freezer, duff compressor?

gegsy wrote:Could be electronics 😕 Comps are pretty good on these IMHO 😀

Greg

I didn’t think so, ‘cos there’s just a 240V supply to the compressor from the electronics at the top. The 240V remains live + the compressor don’t go = duff compressor. Is there something else I’m unaware of?

[gegsy]

Re: Bosch frost-free freezer, duff compressor?

Hi
Please don’t do Live testing it really isnt necessary 😉
IMO it sounds like either the windings of the compressor or the start unit on the compressor that may be at fault.

Greg

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Re: Bosch frost-free freezer, duff compressor?

So are Bosch freezers any more difficult to repair than others, are they difficult/impossible to repair, parts unobtainable, grossly expensive, etc.?

Is it worth repairing?

[gegsy]

Re: Bosch frost-free freezer, duff compressor?

Same as any other TBH, click on link below to find a suitable engineer 😀

Greg

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gegsy wrote:Same as any other TBH, click on link below to find a suitable engineer 😀

Greg

Yes, thanks, that’s what I’d thought. They’d probably assumed it was a PCB type job.

I clicked on the link and filled the form yesterday; no response.

SWMBO informed me today that she’d ordered a Liebherr. £750! Kinell. 😮
Problem solved, I fear.

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