Smeg F170-5 won’t heat up

[jonnyw]

Please Help. My mother’s Smeg (F170-5) oven won’t heat up.

The temperature setting dial does not light up now (either on oven or grill settings). The digital-analog clock does light up, as does the function selection (grill, oven, fan etc.), but the oven doesn’t heat up.

It all worked fine previously, and the fan still runs. I don’t think there was a light in the oven.

I have a feeling we’ve had this problem in the past (and fixed it by doing something simple like setting the clock – though we have set the clock and that hasn’t worked)

We’ve tried turning it off and back on at the wall, but that made no difference. I’m not sure if it’s related, but on the same night we discovered it wasn’t working, my mother had earlier tried to open the door, and it came loose at one of the hinges (as if it was being removed for maintenance). We corrected this, but it made no difference.

Can anyone suggest anything?

[kwatt]

Re: Smeg F170-5 won’t heat up

If the oven is totally dead then it’ll be the timer that’s on auto almost for sure. Generic instructions here that should give you some insight into solving that:

http://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/help/fix- … -dead.html

If that’s okay then you’re looking at either an overheat thermostat popped, the oven thermostat of the oven function selector switch being the problem as they are really the only things that can cut power to the oven totally yet leave the clock running.

K.

[jonnyw]

Re: Smeg F170-5 won’t heat up

Well I fixed it!

The door mustn’t have been re-attached properly, as I managed to fix this issue by removing the door, and re-attaching it.

Now the oven works!

(It seems the oven must have a sensor that prevents it from producing heat while the door is open).

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