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Lol – I reached the same conclusion earlier today and ordered a new Neff S54M45X0 from our local dealer. So I bid farewell to my old nemesis later this week !
Just to follow up this latest issue – I took the front panel off last night. Door catch seems to be operating normally and is activating the micro switch. On closing the door the machine issues a double-beep so I think the door latch is OK.
In general : no corroded contacts or other issues visible. The detergent dispenser also seems OK as far as I can tell.
I wonder if the surpressor and/or logic board have gone (again)
Life with an ADP8242 is never boring. New fault this time : it’s not possible to select a wash program. On switching the unit on the ‘standard’ wash light is flashing, but pressing the program select button does not change program. I still get a positive click when depressing the button so that seems to be functioning OK, but the machine does not respond to the input.
I have tried about 50 times to perform the reset procedure, but either I’m doing it wrong, or this fault is preventing it from working.
From reading the fault finding guide, it seems the fault could be caused by a dodgy door switch preventing a program from being selected. When I close the door, the machine issues a double beep, so it obviously recognises that the door state has changed – if the switch was faulty would this happen ?
As always, any advice much appreciated. Something seems to go wrong with this machine every 6-12 months and it’s getting boring now. This might be it’s last chance to avoid a trip to the tip.
Re: Amana Reflection 228FIRB SXS – fridge too cold
Thanks for the info – I’ve been trying to track down the part you refered to, but the Whirlpool Parts Department have not heard of it. I don’t suppose you have a part number at all ?
Many thanks,
Pete
Re: Amana Reflection 228FIRB SXS – fridge too cold
Have attached an image showing ice on the back of the old damper door.
Just out of interest, can anyone tell me what that is at the bottom of the picture – is that a temperature sensor ?
Re: Amana Reflection 228FIRB SXS – fridge too cold
Follow up : damper replaced under warranty (or rather, they sent me a new damper and I replaced it the evening) The old part had a lot of ice on the back of the damper door and around the spring. Certainly enough ice to interfere with the spring and prevent it from fully closing the damper door.
The question is – if ice built up around the old damper, what’s to stop it happening again with the new unit ? Is there perhaps another problem at the root of this ?
One strange thing I have noticed – if I switch the power off then on again, the temperatures displayed for the fridge and freezer are always different than before the power was switched off. Why would that be ? Does the display give an averaged temperature reading and ‘rebooting’ the fridge resets that ?
A final, more general question if I may – how many temperature sensors are in these units ? For example, the fridge temperature is displayed on the LED display, so there is a sensor for that, but is that the same sensor which controls the damper door or is that separate ?
Many thanks, as always, for any advice.
/Pete
Re: Diplomat ADP8242 – beep beep
Just to this follow-up, the QER repair seems to have worked. It’s been faultless ever-since. I guess something on the board must have got fried when the mains suppressor blew.
Out of interest, I asked QER exactly what the fault was, but no reply yet. Anyway, it’s working now.
Penguin45 – you were right (corruption issues of some sort)
Many thanks for the advice/Pete
Re: Amana Reflection 228FIRB SXS – fridge too cold
OK, thanks to both for your input. I pushed the F/F back into place yesterday and the temperature slowly climbed back up, but refuses to go back to normal. It’s hovering around 0 degrees.
Will make a call on the warranty
Re: Diplomat ADP8242 – beep beep
Hero to zero 😥
It worked for a couple of times but then the old fault returned. Sigh.
Didn’t want to risk the cost of a new PCB, so sent the old one to QER for repair. They found + fixed a fault (although they didn’t say exactly what) and I’ve installed it. First program completed normally – so fingers crossed.
Re: Diplomat ADP8242 – beep beep
My name is Ozymandias, fixer of dishwashers: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair !
😀
Thanks for the advice. I has a look at the PCB and visually at least it seemed fine. There was a little gunk across 2 tracks near the speaker which I cleaned off. I also cleaned the contacts of the door switch and soap dispenser.
The other thing I notced was the door catch assembly seeemed a bit loose – I suspect it was not clipped into it’s mountings properly so the door switch was not fully engaging when closed. I notice these clips are accesible from outside the machine if the decor door is not in place – I wonder if they were pushed and became unclipped during the kitchen installation. Maybe.
Anyway, reassembled and it’s just completed a wash, sans beeps ! I’m not sure exactly what the fault was so can’t be certain it won’t just reappear on the next program. But for now at least, I’m celebrating – dodging a £500 bill for a new machine certainly feels like a reason to celebrate just now.
Thanks again for the advice.
PS – just added up our outlay on parts and repairs for this machine since we inheritted it with the house in 2006 : £371 😯
Can someone please tell me where the timer/logic board is located on these units ? Many thanks, Pete
Re: Diplomat 8242 – beep beep
Hmm, scratch that – the original problem has not been fixed – I just had to cancel the program after 3.5 hours. Water is hot. Dishes clean – just never seems finish the cycle. Still doing the beep-beep and restarting every few minutes
Aah – OK – I see !
Well, now that I’ve got a personal guarantee of longevity from Burns, I’ll probably go ahead with the repair 🙂
A company called Geoff Dawes Refrigeration, based in Bognor. They were recommended by a guy who we’ve used before for a dishwasher repair, but who does not deal in Regrigeration repairs.
Interesting that you think the machine would continue to give good service because I’m just about to phone him and give the go ahead to order the parts required. Why do you say you are biased, is that because you deal with Maytags a lot ?
Kind regards, Pete
