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06/6/2012 at 6:54pm
Location: south cheshire
Outfit: VW Caddy Maxi
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The man who serviced my van advised me that he could not get the fridge to work on gas at all, does anyone have any ideas as to why it doesn't work on gas?
The man who installed my 3-way said the same thing about mine. However, after I had given it a good hoover along the bottom and in through the outside vent with a hoover nozzle (gets out all the little spidey webs) it worked fine.
I think he couldn't be bothered to wait to let the gas come through, it takes a while for it to come up to the fridge. If you light the cooker burners this sometimes helps.
Also, you may have a separate gas knob to turn on. Mine is in the cupboard next to the one for the cooker.#
Even after that, you need to get the jet to light, then hold in the gas knob on the fridge for at least a minute before the thermo coupler heats up or it will just go out again.
Somtimes you have to hold it in for more than a minute if there's a bit of damp air in there. Mine is always harder the first time of the season to light on gas.
My Sis had had her caravan for four years before she used the fridge on gas. Regularly serviced I might add, but it took a while and all the above before it kicked in and stayed on....
Hope this is some help, sometimes its easy, sometimes difficult, but try all these before you get a very expensive service engineer out.
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