Viking
Viking Appliance Repair in Temecula
Viking tends to mark the earlier remodels around the valley, and the parts that wear are the ones living in the heat: glow-bar igniters, oven thermostats and sensors, door springs and hinges. The signature fault is an igniter that still glows convincingly and no longer draws enough current to pull the gas valve open, so the oven takes longer and longer to light and then one morning does not light at all. That is measured under load with a meter rather than judged by how bright it looks through the vent.
Door hardware is the other recurring job, and on a professional range it costs more than it sounds like it should. These doors are heavy, the springs and hinges age, and once a door stops pulling square against its seal the cavity leaks heat and gas continuously and the browning goes with it. Owners live with that for a year because nothing has technically broken. Hinge tension and alignment are a measurement rather than an opinion, they get taken at the same visit as the calibration check, and putting them right is usually cheaper than the conversation people are braced for.
Equipment we service
- Professional gas and dual-fuel ranges, open burner and sealed burner
- Rangetops and cooktops, plus single and double built-in wall ovens
- Built-in and freestanding refrigeration, wine cellars and undercounter drawers
- Outdoor grills, side burners and patio refrigeration
Factory-approved parts, and a technician who has seen this fault before. Call (858) 465-4117.
Start from the fault instead
- Why is my Sub-Zero refrigerator not cooling?
- Why is there water under my refrigerator?
- What is the loud humming or rattling from my refrigerator?
- Why does frost keep building up in my freezer?
- Why has my ice maker stopped making ice?
- Why is my wine cooler not holding temperature?
- Why is my oven not heating properly?
Reviews
What Temecula customers say
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.
The undercounter Viking in our outdoor kitchen was barely cold by mid afternoon and fine again once it cooled off at night. He cleared the grille down at floor level, thick with dust, checked the clearance and let it recover. Came same day, and nothing needed replacing.
Rated 4.9 from 673 customer reviews.
Appliance down in Temecula?
Tell us the brand and what it is doing — we can usually name the likely repair before we arrive.
From the call to the repair
Most of these faults are diagnosed in the first twenty minutes; the value is in not replacing the wrong part.
- The phone call. Tell us the brand, roughly how old it is, and what changed. Any error code on the display is worth reading out.
- The diagnosis. We measure — coil temperature, defrost circuit continuity, fan draw, water pressure at the valve — rather than working from the symptom alone.
- The price. Agreed before the first screw comes out, and it covers both the part and the work.
- The fix. Same visit wherever the part is on the van, which is the usual case for the failures that account for most calls.