Common fault
Why has my ice maker stopped making ice?
Short answer
Look at the cubes first. Small, hollow or half-formed means the mold is not filling, and that is a water fault: the filter, supply pressure, or a fill tube narrowed by scale or partly frozen.
Why we start there
No ice at all from a freezer that is still cold is the opposite problem, because the harvest side has quit, which means the module, its thermostat or the ejector motor. Inland water carries enough mineral that the starved-fill version is much the more common one in this valley, and it arrives slowly enough that people describe the ice maker as gradually getting worse rather than breaking. A new module fitted to a starved line makes precisely the same hollow cubes the old one made.
What happens next
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. If the property runs a softener, or draws its own water rather than the district supply, say so when you book, because it changes both the likely fault and what we bring for 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.
Reviews
What Temecula customers say
Short version, the Wolf was not broken, it was heating to the wrong number. I had been adding half an hour to everything for a year and blaming myself. He put a probe at rack level, read it against the sensor and set it right. Should have called much sooner.
Kept finding a chalky white ring under the built-in with no actual puddle, in an older kitchen near Old Town. He said that is still a leak, it just dries about as fast as it lands here. Turned out to be a weeping fitting on the ice line. Out the next morning.
Fast, tidy, explained what he was doing. The noise behind the grille was the condenser fan bearing and he had the part with him. Told me not to sit on it, because that fan seized in August stops being a fan repair.
Rated 4.9 from 673 customer reviews.
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