ext_14009 ([identity profile] drewkitty.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] kevin_standlee 2012-04-04 05:09 pm (UTC)

Having owned several, I'd respectfully suggest checking the owner's manual for user level maintenance, especially cleaning the vents and verifying operation of the fan. I'm assuming you've been running it on electric and the settings on the Dometic are correct -- most common error I've found is to think you've got it in 110 electric mode when it's really in 12v or gas mode.

If you don't have this book, you may want to get it: http://www.amazon.com/RV-Repair-Maintenance-Manual/dp/0934798702

It contains detailed maintenance and troubleshooting for virtually everything on an RV, including fridges.

There are mobile RV repair services that will come to you and fix a fridge -- a quick Google showed at least one in Reno, plus several RV shops who probably prefer that you bring the rig in. The one repair I've had to pay for myself was a bad controller board.

If the items kept in the RV are less perishable, a plug-in thermoelectric cooler may be an option and is much cheaper than a fridge, as well as a lower power draw more practical for travel.

If you don't plan to travel extensively with the RV, you can pull the Dometic and install a consumer refrigerator (<$200 at Costco) which is 110 only instead. Many RVers choose to use an icebox for travel anyway, and a dead refrigerator is an OK ice box.

Best wishes.

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