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ron_dittmer
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Aug 10, 2015

Norcold Fridge Door Reinforcement Brackets Installed

With all the past discussions over Norcold fridge doors breaking, I thought I would be proactive and buy two complete reinforcement sets and install them on my fridge and freezer doors. I bought them...
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Markiemark32
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Nov 05, 2015
Mocoondo wrote:
The reason for the hinge failures is the heavy wood inserts. Those with a lighter sheet of ply did not experience this problem. In over 5 million miles on my small rental fleet, I never had a Norcold hinge fail. We have since switched to Dometic fridges.

Gotsmart, you actually do have a thin wood insert in each of your doors.


I had one break, without the the heavy wood inserts.

The (Smaller) freezer door ~~ also........

Just my personal single unit fleet, sample.

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