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Re: Hotpoint Fridge Freezer (thermistor problem) — Mistral

Put a bowl of boiling water on top of a towel inside the freezer for about 3 hours, then took it out and left the doors open overnight; then turned the unit on in the afternoon with nothing in, and unfortunately it still didn’t work. Freezers still hovering around -14c instead of -22c for some reason and keeps getting slight warmer only to return to -14c. Fridge is room temperature and has no cool air circulating.

So both Yellow and Green Thermistors replaced.
Small crack sealed with layers of aluminium tape.
Manually defrosted.

And still not working. Anyone have any ideas? Went instore to buy a new one today, wouldn’t mind trying one more time to fix the faulty one before it goes to it’s final grave.

Someone was telling me apparently freezers can lose some kind of gas in which case they might need refilling? Is that the case for frost free fridge freezers? Again, it’s a Hotpoint FF91S.

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Re: Hotpoint Fridge Freezer (thermistor problem) — Mistral

Yesterday morning i replaced the Green Thermistor with a new one (replaced the Yellow earlier as mentioned); however, it has made no difference as the fridge is still at room temperature and the freezer is still not at -22 instead hovers around -14.

I did notice a small crack along where one of the food storage compartments slides in, no one can tell me whether that was there before the fault or only just appeared, however, yesterday i covered it up with some aluminium tape but it has made no difference.

Any ideas?

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Re: Hotpoint 9506 – Door Stuck after wash

Penguin45 wrote:Take the top off. Motor back right. All pretty obvious when you see it. To open the door from inside, pull the plug and feel down the inside front of the machine. The door lock has two electrical wires attached. When you feel them, lift the body at that point and the door will open.

When these machines were popular, I went to a Hotpoint that wouldn’t open every day without fail. There was never a need to break my way in.

Penguin45.Thanks, i’ll have a look asap 😀

That part i mentioned about it working fine after everythings put back together with the superglue, does it still suggest it might be a sensor issue, or is it more of a case that it has to be checked to be 100{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} sure?

When these machines were popular, I went to a Hotpoint that wouldn’t open every day without fail. There was never a need to break my way in.

Does that mean even after i fix this problem it will reappear? Is there anyway to fix this permanently or did you have to keep going back to the same peoples homes to repair them problem?

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Re: Hotpoint 9506 – Door Stuck after wash

Any instructions on how to open this model of the machine? Is the motor located in the back or towards the sides, front?

Also, one thing to note is that whenever i used the brute force manner and broke it, when i superglued everything back on, everything worked as normal until the same thing would happen after a few months or over a year later or so. Does that still indicate that it might be a sensor issue?

The machine is now well over 10 years old i’d say but the problems been around pretty much from the beginning. I’m surprised it’s been going for so long even through my dodgy fixing methods 😛

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