Fridge not cooling but freezer is fine

[AdamD]

What to check?

 

Are these the condenser coils in the freezer, or the coils externally on back of unit?

 

[ProDave]

Thoroughly defrost it and try again?

 

Is that round thing in the first pictures a fan?  some fridge freezers just cool the freezer with the compressor, then use a fan to blow some cold air into the fridge to cool that.  Is the fan free to rotate or frozen solid?

[AdamD]

4 minutes ago, ProDave said:

Thoroughly defrost it and try again?

 

Is that round thing in the first pictures a fan?  some fridge freezers just cool the freezer with the compressor, then use a fan to blow some cold air into the fridge to cool that.  Is the fan free to rotate or frozen solid?

Yeah that’s the fan and is rotating freely

[dpmiller]

there's likely a motorised flap to open the path to the fridge; defrost and retry, but I'd be asking why it hasn't auto-defrosted itself. Have the doors been left open at any time?

[Onoff]

Inside there'll be a vent covering a fan. Possibly held on by cross head screws. The fan can get iced up. Unplug, take the fan cover off and see if iced up.

[AdamD]

Surely this should have auto defrosted and shouldn’t be like this?

 

Defrosted it all manually and restarted. Feels like the fridge is cooling down so hopefully was just something frozen and not allowing air flow. Although need to understand what as am sure it shouldn’t do that.

[AdamD]

Well I got it going again after fully defrosting the freezer coils, thought I’d won then 5 days later it goes again. So am completely at a loss. Not going through that faff again. Clearly something amiss as, like someone said, it should be auto defrosting.

 

any other ideas before I take a sledgehammer to it and buy a new one?

 

ps: I’m not really going to sledgehammer it, although I’d rather like to

[dpmiller]

check the door seals carefully, and if they're all good and you're handy with a multimeter see if the defrost heater is burnt out...

[AdamD]

47 minutes ago, dpmiller said:

check the door seals carefully, and if they're all good and you're handy with a multimeter see if the defrost heater is burnt out...

Where is that?!

[dpmiller]

on or under the evaporator core