[jonmay]

Re: faulty bosch fridge freezer

Oh dear – you should not have cut the two wires, just stripped the insulation off them and shorted them by making a connection between them (i.e., winding them around each other and covering with tape).

I imagine that now you will have a freezer with NO information coming from the two sensors into the control panel. It will probably not come on at all (but more knowledgeable people than me can comment on that).

You will need to a) reconnect the two wires into the white plug
b) short them by making a contact between their exposed sections
c) for safety, insulate them again with tape.

You say ‘a few millimetres’ of wire is left in the plug, so that sounds to little to use anything to rejoin your cut wires (e.g., a connection block – one of those semitransparent plastic things with two holes and screws to secure each wire).
Does the plug have any screws that hold the wires in place or does it come apart in any way?

[jonmay]

Re: faulty bosch fridge freezer

Oh yes, plug definitely well out of the wall.

My first attempt didn’t work, but stripping 5mm of insulation from each wire and twisting them tightly around each other before binding them with insulating tape seems to have worked – the freezer has maintained itself in the -24 to -30 range for 48 hrs now. I recommnd this fix to anyone with a
Bosch KGV freezer problem (text here again for Google to find!)

Thanks to all at UKW and RepairCentre for this tip. Hopefully, my freezer will now work until the other thermistor fails, when it can join the great fridge mountain. I wonder if Bosch have changed the design in the last 6 years, or do their current freezers still have a failure prone unrelaceable partt?

[jonmay]

Re: faulty bosch fridge freezer

Thanks – I noticed your general location!

I have found the short-circuit info on and even with my general cackhandedness have managed to get the fascia off the top of the fridge, strip two wires a little and wrap them tightly in insulating tape. If this hasn’t fixed it I will be onto one or other of the two names who came up in the repair@ list.

I’m still alive and the fridge has started up…

[jonmay]

Re: faulty bosch fridge freezer

Must be something about 6 year old bosch fridge freezers.

My KGV3104, bought on 1/5/1999 has just started displaying the same symptoms – freezing fine for a while and then letting everything thaw. Fiddling with the thermostat or turning it off and on starts it up again, and it’ll go to -30, stay cold for a day or so, then drop back to +3 in the freezer.

The compressor is hot, and I’ve cleaned a lot of stucky dusty gunk off the black grid at the back, but it sounds like I might have the same sensor problem.

Anyone in the Sheffield area able to help? I am completely useless at DIY, btw.

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