When to Shut the Fridge Off

dougrainer wrote:

IAMICHABOD wrote:
If treated properly what is the life expectancy of a fridge ?

At least 20 years. As others on this thread that have posted misinformation-----OFF level stationary will cause extremely small problems. OVER TIME, those few minutes build up until the refer cannot cool correctly and you think it just happened. NOT SO, it was all those years of those short unlevel times. BIGGEST problem is, some forget for 24 hours or so and then when they cannot see the lower lack of cooling they think no big deal, just another wives tale. AS to others that think OLD refers had to be perfectly level and newer ones do not. Kind of true for CERTAIN BRANDS. The Old Servel's and Instamatics had to be extremely level to function correctly. Dometic and Norcolds have more tolerance. Doug

Thanks Doug,a good and concise answer as usual from a real Tech.The canned responses that usually come up in these threads are all the same,all doom and gloom.

This gives me a base line to work from,my Former Rental is 13 years old,the first 5 years were as a rental,so we know that it didn't get the best of care.

The Dometic DM2652 fridge works just fine,plugged in for about 4.5 to 5 hours it will get to 0 in the freezer and 35 in the lower compartment,measured with a very good instant read thermometer in a glass of water.

I have had no problems with it maintaining correct temperature even in hot weather.

I always level the RV by using This T Level laying on the floor of the freezer never more than 1/4 bubble off in any direction