Electrolux refrigerator
showing Door Ajar
Door Ajar lights up with a tone when the freezer or refrigerator door has been open for five minutes or longer.
Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm
- Mode, not a failure
- No repair needed
- Source: Electrolux
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What Door Ajar
actually means.
Door Ajar lights up with a tone when the freezer or refrigerator door has been open for five minutes or longer. It is a reminder, not a failure. Closing the door stops it.
Electrolux refrigerator display
What to do when Door Ajar shows on the refrigeratorKind of codeMode, not a failure
A setting somebody chose, or an alert it raised on purpose — a showroom mode, a door or power alarm. Nothing has broken and no part is needed.
Usually leads toNo repair
Close the door and make sure nothing on a shelf or in the door bins is holding it open.
Shows up asRefrigerator Not Cooling
The compartment is warm but the appliance still has power and still makes noise.
MakeElectrolux
Counter-depth French door refrigeration with a strong emphasis on ice and dispensers.
SourceElectrolux owner support: alarms and error messages on French door refrigerators
French door, side-by-side and top freezer models with an electronic display.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Electrolux's own guidance for Door Ajar on its refrigerators. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Close the door and make sure nothing on a shelf or in the door bins is holding it open.
Press Set to reset any alarms, as Electrolux describes.
If the alarm keeps sounding after the door is shut, contact Electrolux support with your model number.
Cleared?
Nothing needed repairing. If the refrigerator does not settle back to temperature, that is a separate problem.
What not to do
It does not mean the control has failed when a door really was left open.
What you may
notice with it.
The refrigerator problems Door Ajar tends to arrive with. Answer these at the refrigerator before anyone is booked.
All problems
Refrigerator Not Cooling
7 causes, cheapest first
No repair indicated
Nothing to repair.
A setting somebody chose, or an alert it raised on purpose — a showroom mode, a door or power alarm. Nothing has broken and no part is needed.
Read these
before the visit.
Short guides that make the call quicker and the diagnosis cheaper.
All guidesElectrolux
refrigerators.
Counter-depth French door refrigeration with a strong emphasis on ice and dispensers.
Electrolux refrigerator repair
In Electrolux's own words
If the freezer or refrigerator doors have been left open for 5 minutes or more, an alarm will sound
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. French door, side-by-side and top freezer models with an electronic display.
Electrolux Door Ajar refrigerator repair,
where we come out.
The same visit in every metro below: the code, the model number, and a diagnosis before any part is ordered.
All service areasTampa BayFL · 31 areas
Miami / South FloridaFL · 47 areas
New York MetroNY · 75 areas
HoustonTX · 36 areas
ChicagoIL · 50 areas
Los AngelesCA · 95 areas
San DiegoCA · 31 areas
Questions
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Back to your everyday
Still showing Door Ajar?
Book with the exact characters, the full model number, and whether it is still cooling — on a code, that is the whole starting point.