Fisher & Paykel E522B RXG – fridge not cooling

[MattyD]

Hi all,

Family noticed that the top fridge on our F&P 522B fridge freezer (about 6 or 7 years old) is not cool at all. Compressor is workng and freezer seems cold. Control panel is working fine.

I removed the fridge rear panel and the fan from the freezer compartment seems to be free and coming on when door is closed, buit no cool air coming up.

However, I can’t work out how to remove the rear panel fo the freezer compartment to see what is going on in there. Seems you need to remove the side panels with the drawer slides on first. There seem to be no screws, and I’ve looked at the parts diagram but no indciation of how they are held in place.

Does anyone know the offical way to remove the rear freezer panel in an E522B?

thanks

Matt

[MJD1901]

I’m replying to my own post from 2013 (under a login I lost at some point – interesting to note I originally joined in 2006! I was young then). 8 years on and we still have the same F&P E522 fridge, which we love for its size and capacity – however, we get a recurring problem as outlined above, and I wondered if any experts have a view on the cause – and whether there is a real fault that might be fixable.

Basically the air return channels between fridge and freezer on each side ice up with condensation type ice – it often occurs when fridge is quite heavily loaded and used a lot, so maybe once or twice a year, but sometimes totally randomly. When we detect the butter becoming too soft, a well practised routine swings into place: I remove all the contents to cool boxes and other cold places – I remove the back panel, I defrost the channels (with hairdryer), sponge all the water out of the drip tray at the back. We clean all the shelves and drawers, pop everything back and wait for a couple of hours for it all to cool again. Repeat several months later…… I am way too familiar with the insides of our fridge.

So, is this possibly a sensor going wonky or the defrost not working properly ? User error through bad overloading? I’m assuming the fridge is designed to work in more challenging climates than the UK in terms of humidity. F&P offered me an engineer visit, but I’m dubious as to whether that will really identify anything.

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