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Are they easy to replace. I saw it in there. When I was doing the bearing and spindle. Looking on line it is a 7.5 Uf capacitor. I am just unsure of capacitor as they can give a bit of a jolt. How do you discharge them?
Do I also need to replace any of the following if my machine has them
Front bearing pad or pads if there are multiple.
Rear drum foam seal
Outer cover seal
Drum earth contact stripRe: Creda Oven Door Roller Catch Replacement.
to get to the two screws at the bottom does the door come off. I don’t think the oven has much flex for me to pull it out and tilt it
Re: Hoover Larder Fridge – Running Temperature
Well they came and fitted a new thermostat….and guess what it is crap in one word. Yet again this fridge is useless. Sometimes the temp goes up 8 deg, then it will remain at 3 deg then it will drop to below zero and the it will please it self at what temp it is going to run at…some times food gets frozen, whilst other times it gets warm..not impressed with it at all. It is Xmas and I need the fridge… I think HOOVER is the worst fridge I have ever bought in my life and certainly would NOT recommend anybody buy one.
Re: Hoover Larder Fridge – Running Temperature
I will do that to see if the temperature is okay. My old fashioned fridge thermometer says it is above 4 deg and so does my modern prob.e digitial thermometer…but we shall see
Re: Hoover Larder Fridge – Running Temperature
Try HFLE 5485W None of the numbers on the back say anything against them what so ever. It is only used as a christmas fridge for extra space really…but the last thing I want is to put food in it and it goes off. 8 deg to store food just sounds high. I have got a big Hotpoint Fridge Freezer which has far better temperatures than this small fridge. If I turn the thrmostat down..things start to freeze. It wasn’t by any shape or form the cheapest household fridge I could get.
Re: Hoover Larder Fridge – Running Temperature
It is in the kitchen. I haven’t changed the setting of the thermostat inside the fridge. But the temperature range that my thermometer reads is sometimes 2 deg and at other times 8 deg. It just seems to me to be such a vast range.
At the moment my thermometer (which I read from outside the fridge) is showing that the fridge on the top shelf is at 4 deg. About four hours ago my thermometers alarm went off because the top shelf had reached 8deg. Before I went to bed it was reading 2 deg. During all this time I had not opened the door. I have not changed the setting inside, but I can if it will improve the max temp, but my fear is that it will start to freeze things again. This fridge has already cost me a lot of food last year. Namely an £18 gammon joint was rancid, and a load of other food. I always thought food is meant to be kept below 4deg.
Re: Hotpoint Iced Diamond Larder Fridge Model – UKNOWN –
see this link about ICED DIAMOND
fridge-freezer-forum/hotpoint-iced-diamond-larder-fridge-t30783.html
Hotpoint are not much help as they wont do anything without the serial number, and the fact that they use a stupid piece of sticky back plastic rather than a proper plate there is no plastic label as it has dropped off, so is there any other way to tell the model number?
Re: Hotpoint Iced Diamond Larder Fridge Model – UKNOWN –
It was in the house. The old thermostat was dead so I replaced it with a new one. I then noticed that the temperature fluctuated though a much larger range to how it used to. The click on occurred when almost at max. The range seemed to fluctated between 6 deg and 0 deg, where as used to be set at 3 or 4 on the knob and stayed at around 3 deg. I then seemed to trust it very little, so I relegated it to an outhouse. I bought a new fridge, a hoover, which was fine last year, but this year when I brought it in to use it it was very irratic, so I tried my old ice diamond, but wish I hadnt. I replaced the thermostat with a new one, and it was just as bad, so I shoved it back outside in the outhouse. I should have got rid of it when it went wrong originally, and have put up with it fluctuating.
I have noticed from another post I can’t remember if it was on here or not, but it said that the Ice Diamond is peculiar and must be replace with an authentic part, not a generic otherwise it will have issues….I am not sure how true that is mind.
Re: Hotpoint Iced Diamond Larder Fridge Model – UKNOWN –
I was just doubtful that it was working correctly as the original thermostat used to click at around 3/4 when the fridge warms up with the door open, where as this (the 2nd one I have fitted) seems to click at 6 once, and then if you open the door and the fridge warms up it doesn’t seem to click to bring the compressor on. The temp does seem warmer tnat it used to be at 5deg. On the original thermostat the fridge would be extremely cold if I had it up to 6, bit the replacement seems to keep it at 5deg and no colder. I have also read on other sites that the Ice Diamond is odd and only the original hotpoint thermostats work correctly.
It seems strange to me that food can get as warm as 8deg and that is ok. I last year purchased a replacement fridge which is a hoover and the thermostat has also go haywire. The fridge fluctuates at the moment between below freezing, and 8 deg. I will be getting them into fix that one under warranty. I didn’t need this at Xmas..lol
Re: Hotpoint Iced Diamond Larder Fridge Model – UKNOWN –
I thought I would raise this one again. I never binned the fridge, but kept it as an emergency. I have bought yet another therostat in case the one I fitted was faulty. When I fit it there is a small piece of plastic that the end of the thermostat fits in. I am wondering is this meant to keep it up against the metal plate at the back of the fridgeor is it to keep it away but instead up against the back plastic of the fridge. I have attached a digital thermometer to the fridge and found that it is going up just above 5deg. The knob doesnt seem to click like the old one very often.
