Frigidaire 240597203 Replacement Refrigerator Temperature Sensor 12 Month Warranty

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I am somewhat familiar with appliances and have made numerous repairs over the years. But familiarity can lead to problems. I went Google and did a search on the problem. And, to my wife’s surprise, I was right. Two appliance repair shops said it was a minimum $400 repair with the symptoms, without even seeing the refrigerator. Of course, depending on what they found it could be more. Eek!

OK, downloading the refrigerators schematic and parts list, I determined what I figured I needed. I double checked this against one of numerous troubleshooters available on parts sales sites. The problem was, nobody that I trusted had the part in stock. The local parts warehouses wanted between $45 (with my business discount) to $100 at places I am not registered. Nobody had it in stock and with the holiday, it could be a week or more.

I went to Amazon and found the part. The delivery dates were dismal. By now, we had stuffed a small dorm fridge with expensive stuff and tried eat the rest. Urp. Sorry, pardon me.

This seller has the best delivery time and coincedentally the best price. Hmm. I’ve been bitten before, but I was desperate.

Instead of the promised week, it showed up in 2 budiness days. So fast, I neglected open the envelope. So, on the third day…

After watching a tutorial, I was ready. Basically all I had to do is pull out one drawer, undo one bolt, replace the part, put in the bolt, and turn it back on.

It was NOT that easy. Every single drawer and shelf had to come out. A number of panels had to be snapped out. Then a part that covered the entire rear of the compartment had to be unbolted. Once you were absolutely sure all the bolts were out, the part had to be snapped out. Which sounds like the plastic was cracking because I left a bolt in. After another check for missed bolts, I went back to removing the panel. Once the panel was out, all I had to do was unplug the sensor and… wait a minute. There was nothing behind the panel. The wall was blank. Uh. That was unexpected.

I began to think $400 was a reasonable price.

After a few minutes, I began to pull out what looked like weather stripping on the back side of the panel. And there it was. The thermostat was hidden in a channel on the backside of the panel, covered under a piece of foam.

What was a 5 minute repair on the Internet turned into a 45 minute one for me. The 15 minutes looking for the thermostat aside, there was a good half hour in removing panels and shelves and drawers, then replacing all.

But at the end, I was able to brag that I saved $400. I figure the shops must make $800 per hour, if it was going to be $400 for a half hour job.

It’s amazing that Frigidaire has so many ‘versions’ of the SAME model refrigerator. Of maybe 20+ help videos I watched on how to install this simple part, NONE of them matched my Frigidaire Gallery model. The temperature sensor (thermistor) might be located in any number of areas depending on YOUR model. After finally getting in touch with a tech person at Frigidaire, he told me it was behind a small panel on the back interior wall of the unit. HOWEVER, this is what confused me….if you look at the photo, you’ll see why. When I removed the back panel, the little ‘housing box’ that has the sensor inside came completely out of the rear interior wall of the fridge! It wasn’t supposed to do that. Hahahaha! When someone here on Amazon told me the sensor was inside of the box, I pried it open with a flathead screwdriver, swapped out the old with the new, snapped it back together and pushed it back into the hole……and 24 hours later, the fridge is working back at normal temperature. Many Thanks to Amazon members who helped by responding with their experiences with this same dilemma!

Excellent. The almost $20 piece saved me to buy a new refrigerator

Good item price, is good to know that with Amazon is so many item that you easily find, thank you.