Refrigerator discussion & recommendations (Not residential)
Hello,
We're new to RV'ing with a motorhome. Just purchased a pre-owned 2003 Fleetwood Revolution. I happened to find out about the recall on the Norcold 1200LRIM 4 door refrigerator, and we had the high temperature sensor installed 2 days ago at a dealership under the official recall. Fast forward to today, we're home from our trip and planning to park the rig for a few weeks. The refrigerator was running on Auto/LP. I removed everything from the fridge and, using the on/off button on the refrigerator, I turned it off. I heard it shut off, I actually heard the LP go out. Then we proceeded on to other things, like unpacking, having supper, and so forth. My husband gave the rig a wash and parked it in the shed. Walking by, he saw the glow of the red light from the sensor. He mentioned it to me and I said that shouldn't be on, it meant the high temp sensor had shut off the fridge (which hadn't been on in the first place) and we would be unable to start the fridge again unless we were able to reset the sensor. I went inside, tried turning it on...nothing. So the sensor is obviously faulty and we'll try resetting it. (This does make me wonder how trustworthy the sensor is, however, since there was no high temperature and no reason for it to trigger, and this is an issue I'll be taking up with the dealership who installed it and/or the Norcold rep I've been exchanging e-mails with. Probably best to have as much in writing as possible.) We don't have time to drive the 8 hour round trip to have the dealership install a new sensor at this time, but this will likely have to be done. (Unless they can ship it to us and we can swap it out ourselves?)
All of this has made me wonder, in the event that we do find it necessary to replace the refrigerator, if there is another brand anyone could recommend. We do need one that runs on LP or AC, since we do plan to do a fair bit of traveling with the motorhome and we want to have the option of boondocking. I know many new motorhomes are manufactured with residential refrigerators, but ours is not set up that way and apparently the modifications to do that would be quite expensive.
The 2003 5th wheel we had previous to this motorhome also had a Norcold fridge, but it was smaller and was not a part of this recall. I had it set at 3 and it worked great. In fact, I had to be careful where I placed the fresh produce because 3 was almost too cold but 2 was not quite cold enough. With the motorhome, however, I'm finding it has to be set at 7, and if it's on LP I need to set it at 8 or even 9. The weather has been very hot and humid where we've been. Is that normal for these refrigerators (Norcold 4 door 1200 models)? I would have expected better. It does occur to me that this refrigerator is old and may be near the end of its life expectancy.
We're new to RV'ing with a motorhome. Just purchased a pre-owned 2003 Fleetwood Revolution. I happened to find out about the recall on the Norcold 1200LRIM 4 door refrigerator, and we had the high temperature sensor installed 2 days ago at a dealership under the official recall. Fast forward to today, we're home from our trip and planning to park the rig for a few weeks. The refrigerator was running on Auto/LP. I removed everything from the fridge and, using the on/off button on the refrigerator, I turned it off. I heard it shut off, I actually heard the LP go out. Then we proceeded on to other things, like unpacking, having supper, and so forth. My husband gave the rig a wash and parked it in the shed. Walking by, he saw the glow of the red light from the sensor. He mentioned it to me and I said that shouldn't be on, it meant the high temp sensor had shut off the fridge (which hadn't been on in the first place) and we would be unable to start the fridge again unless we were able to reset the sensor. I went inside, tried turning it on...nothing. So the sensor is obviously faulty and we'll try resetting it. (This does make me wonder how trustworthy the sensor is, however, since there was no high temperature and no reason for it to trigger, and this is an issue I'll be taking up with the dealership who installed it and/or the Norcold rep I've been exchanging e-mails with. Probably best to have as much in writing as possible.) We don't have time to drive the 8 hour round trip to have the dealership install a new sensor at this time, but this will likely have to be done. (Unless they can ship it to us and we can swap it out ourselves?)
All of this has made me wonder, in the event that we do find it necessary to replace the refrigerator, if there is another brand anyone could recommend. We do need one that runs on LP or AC, since we do plan to do a fair bit of traveling with the motorhome and we want to have the option of boondocking. I know many new motorhomes are manufactured with residential refrigerators, but ours is not set up that way and apparently the modifications to do that would be quite expensive.
The 2003 5th wheel we had previous to this motorhome also had a Norcold fridge, but it was smaller and was not a part of this recall. I had it set at 3 and it worked great. In fact, I had to be careful where I placed the fresh produce because 3 was almost too cold but 2 was not quite cold enough. With the motorhome, however, I'm finding it has to be set at 7, and if it's on LP I need to set it at 8 or even 9. The weather has been very hot and humid where we've been. Is that normal for these refrigerators (Norcold 4 door 1200 models)? I would have expected better. It does occur to me that this refrigerator is old and may be near the end of its life expectancy.
