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Hi,
We have quite an old (must be 10+ years) Proline PC223A fridge/freezer - fridge on top, freezer below.
It has worked pretty well over the years. The freezer still works fine but the fridge is getting a bit temperamental.
A month or so ago it was freezing stuff in the crisper drawer so we turned the temp gauge right down to 1. Then in the recent hot weather the fridge has been hardly cold at all. Now turned up to 7 and the stuff in the crisper, the lowest shelf and the door is moderately cold (but nowhere near what '7' should produce, even in hot weather). The stuff on the top shelves is only slightly cold (colder than room temp but only marginally chilled). Sorry, we don't have a fridge thermometer to give an accurate reading.
I defrosted the freezer yesterday, and have cleaned the dust off the compressor, and cleaned the floor from dust/debris. There don't appear to be any visible coils either underneath or at the back of the unit so I assume they are built in to the unit somewhere. The door seals seem intact (at least there is moderate resistance to pulling out a piece of paper from the closed door, at various points).
When I open the fridge door I feel cold air coming out. The only thing is that there is a spot at the back of the fridge, about a third of the way up, just above the top of the drain channel on the left, which readily forms a clump of ice.
As this is an old model and I can't find the precise manual online, I don't know where there may be ventilation holes, drainage holes or anything else that could be restricting air flow. It may well be that the thermostat is no longer functioning.
Anyone know about this model and what else might be worth checking? Given its age it's probably not far off needing replacement, but if we could help it hang on just a bit longer it would be great.
We have quite an old (must be 10+ years) Proline PC223A fridge/freezer - fridge on top, freezer below.
It has worked pretty well over the years. The freezer still works fine but the fridge is getting a bit temperamental.
A month or so ago it was freezing stuff in the crisper drawer so we turned the temp gauge right down to 1. Then in the recent hot weather the fridge has been hardly cold at all. Now turned up to 7 and the stuff in the crisper, the lowest shelf and the door is moderately cold (but nowhere near what '7' should produce, even in hot weather). The stuff on the top shelves is only slightly cold (colder than room temp but only marginally chilled). Sorry, we don't have a fridge thermometer to give an accurate reading.
I defrosted the freezer yesterday, and have cleaned the dust off the compressor, and cleaned the floor from dust/debris. There don't appear to be any visible coils either underneath or at the back of the unit so I assume they are built in to the unit somewhere. The door seals seem intact (at least there is moderate resistance to pulling out a piece of paper from the closed door, at various points).
When I open the fridge door I feel cold air coming out. The only thing is that there is a spot at the back of the fridge, about a third of the way up, just above the top of the drain channel on the left, which readily forms a clump of ice.
As this is an old model and I can't find the precise manual online, I don't know where there may be ventilation holes, drainage holes or anything else that could be restricting air flow. It may well be that the thermostat is no longer functioning.
Anyone know about this model and what else might be worth checking? Given its age it's probably not far off needing replacement, but if we could help it hang on just a bit longer it would be great.
