Freezer out in LG Refridgerator

Those LG fridges are really terrible machines.

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Those LG fridges are really terrible machines

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Yep. I'm the proud owner of one of these pieces of shite too

did you have alot of stuff in there? my wife has over crowded our freezer a couple times, once as recent as last month and it stopped working. look at the back inside the freezer at the fan and pipes and see if they are frozen. Overcrowding will call them to freeze up. we just stuck a blow drier in there and thawed it and left unplugged over night. Started back fine

I know people who have been techs for decades who won't fool with LG fridges. So many issues.

Though I would look for a build up of frost in your freezer. Hopefully it's just a defrost failure and you can change a sensor and be done.
Though it could also be one of the control boards or the compressor even. (Known for failing seals).

First, you need to clean out the freezer and get to the coils.
Covered in frost = bad defrost system
Covered in ice = bad drain
No frost at all = compressor/sealed system issue

It could also be a fan issue, but that's less of a factor in the freezer than the fridge. Especially in dual cool.


Speaking of dual cool, it could also be the proportioning valve. If you only have one compressor with two evaporators you have a valve that diverts flow.
Oddly it works so hard because LG can't cool the freezer and fridge at same time.


My advice.... buy machines from companies with more than two letters in their names.


An Lg fridge isn't a Whirlpool Dryer, I'm not sure I feel like it's a job for diy.

For instance it's impossible to remove the fridge evap cover in one piece so it has to be changed every time it's removed (if iced over)




Your fridge is notorious in our circles for being the one that you have to swap the entire door out of to fix the ice maker freeze up issues.

Because you didn't fix the problem you only fixed the problem the problem caused.

Ice forms as frost solidifies due to defrost failure. Melting it only fixed it for a few days. You need the fridge to melt it daily. Likely the timer or the thermostat was the culprit.
Easy cheap fixes. Unless it was a GE then your dodged a bullet.

A ha. Usually.

Not in a LG

Our LG is a piece of shite too.

Control board failure. You can also cycle the revision mode on the board. Sometimes it accidentally runs the wrong software and you need to change out back. Though this is usually only am issue with bottom freezer Whirlpool made units with the controls inside art the top.

With LG the problems are usually overheating of a component on the board causing temporary opens in the circuitry. You can't fix it because they water proof their control boards in resin.

No ice on the coils, freezer not working, fridge is....
Sealed system failure.


At best around $400-500.

I'd go buy a new fridge. LG sucks for fridges.