Why has my ice maker stopped making ice?

Why we start there

No ice at all from a still-cold freezer is the harvest side — the module, its thermostat or the ejector motor. Inland water makes the first more common here.

What happens next

The starved-fill version arrives slowly enough that people describe the ice maker as gradually getting worse rather than breaking, and a new module fitted to a starved line makes precisely the same hollow cubes the old one made. Scale does not show up overnight. It collects on the valve screen and inside the fill tube, closes the opening down a fraction each month, and the harvest cycle keeps running exactly on schedule with less water reaching the mold every time it does. The usual sequence is that the ice maker gets switched off and back on, which resets nothing, and then the filter gets changed, which helps for two weeks if the filter was the whole story and does nothing whatsoever if it was not. Pressure measured at the inlet valve ends the guessing in about a minute. Whether the house draws district water, runs off a well, or has a softener in the line changes what we expect to find and what rides on the van, so mention it.

Through-door dispensers have their own faults and they are worth separating from the maker itself. Ice arriving crushed when you asked for cubes, or a chute that drips and then freezes shut, is the flap heater or the solenoid rather than anything upstream in the water line. Ice that tastes of the freezer is usually not a fault at all: cubes that sit in the bin for months sublimate and pick up odor from everything around them, and in a household that uses less ice than the maker produces, that is the entire story. Empty the bin, let it refill, and taste it again before anyone quotes you a part.

If that matches what yours is doing, say so when you call — it decides which parts come on the van.