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Quote: Originally posted by June Evans on 25/10/2010

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If it is a thetford fridge ring Thetford direct,we had the same trouble (except ours froze everything solid) they put the part in the post , we received the new thermostat within 48hrs which took the other half 5 mins to fit. They were extremely helpful,easier than trying to deal with Swift!!!!!!!

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whats up withit exactly, have you tried it on gas? the thermostat is only for electric, it could be a heater problem does it work on 12v?

if it isnt working on any source it isnt the thermostat, it may well be the absorption unit, some recommend taking the fridge out, turning it upside down, leave it for a few hours, turn back the right way up leave it again for a rew hours and try it on mains, if it dont work, its goosed!!!!! too expensive to repair, absorption units(unlike household fridges) cant be regassed.

hope this helps

When its on can you feel heat coming out of the exterior vent after 30mins or so?

Mine struggles in hot weather to cool down, the main problem was that the heat was not escaping out of the vent, to the extent that the draining board above got hot, I have fitted a cowl to direct the heat out and also fitted a 12v twin computer fan from maplin to extract the hot air, this is strapped to the fins on the back of the fridge.

It now works much much better than before, we even got cool beer in the med this year!

Good idea Sproz mines pretty much the same and if i leave hot water in the metal sink it rarley cools down(goes cold) due to the heat from the fridge over time heating the sink.

as for temps of fridge mine was rubbish until i done the turn over and over trick it soon got cold just afterwards and once used on gas was fine