refrigerator ice maker not working

19 years ago

I have a five year old Kitchen Aid Superba side by side refrigerator with a built in ice maker in the freezer side.

Recently, the ice maker began to leak water and shortly thereafter stopped producing ice.

I removed the unit and cleaned all of the ice which had accumulated around it, visually inspected the exterior components and then reinstalled it.

There is no water being pumped into the unit to make ice and it is now completely non functional.

There are over 30 parts for this type of unit.

Where to begin?

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weissman
19 years ago
check out repairclinic.com - you can look up parts by model number and they have helpful hints on how to repair things. good luck.
elljays
19 years ago
We had a KitchenAid fridge in our previous kitchen, and the icemaker stopped working. We had two different repair people out, and neither one was able to find the problem, let alone repair it. A few months later, we had a power outage (a two day outage), and when the power came back on, the icemaker started working! It continued working flawlessly until we remodeled the kitchen a year later. Anyway, it probably wouldn't hurt to try flipping the breaker off and back on.
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User
19 years ago
Water line is frozen somewhere. pump is bad, water pressure dropped to below tolerances.
bsparks294
19 years ago
You could buy individual parts, but a better solution might be to replace the icemaker as a unit. I replaced mine with little difficulty for a little over $100 with parts from aforementioned "repairclinic."

My neighbor had a reputable technician come out and replace his broken icemaker just last week and it would have cost 3 bills, if he would not have had a service contract.

Good luck, Brad
User
19 years ago
If the water line is frozen and not cracked, you'll need $0 in parts.
rvmaster
19 years ago
hey-i just moved from ga to fl and my unit was in storage for 2 months-it was working great before we left-I plugged it back in and the water dispenser(in the front where the ice dispenser is)is working great-i ran about 5 gallons through it to make sure no air is in the line-I checked the laser to make sure nothing is blocking and made sure the ice maker control is on as well---it seems as if no water is going up the line in the back (which is to the ice maker part-I think)What should I do-I have unplugged the unit and my next step was going to be pull the pump out and make sure all lines are empmty and try again???????????????????????????thanks for your help
sherilynn
19 years ago
antss is right. My first guess is the water line is frozen because this happens to us every now and then. Recently, I put a hair dryer on low right inside the unit where the water comes out of the back wall. In about five minutes or so, it thawed it enough for it to start draining or melt the ice. I hope that's all it is.