Kenmore refrigerator
showing dF
dF shows when the control thinks the freezer drawer has been open for more than an hour.
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What dF
actually means.
dF shows when the control thinks the freezer drawer has been open for more than an hour. A drawer that really was left open explains it; if it was shut, Sears has the freezer door switch and its wiring tested, and a switch that stays open with the door closed is changed.
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What to do when dF shows on the refrigeratorKind of codeService indication
A light or a message asking for a visit. It says that something wants attention, not what, so the visit starts with a diagnosis.
Usually leads toDiagnostic visit
The visit that decides what the repair actually is, before any part is ordered.
Shows up asRefrigerator Door Not Sealing
A gap of a few millimeters is enough to frost an evaporator and run a compressor continuously.
MakeKenmore
A retail badge on appliances built by several different manufacturers.
SourceSears PartsDirect: Kenmore 111 bottom-freezer error codes (Wayback copy, Nov 2019)
Kenmore bottom-freezer Trio models whose number starts 111; Sears lists dF as the freezer door switch code.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Kenmore's own guidance for dF on its refrigerators. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Confirm the model label reads 111 on a bottom-freezer unit before going by this meaning of dF.
Push the freezer drawer fully closed and check that baskets or packages are not stopping it.
Book a visit if the drawer was closed the whole time and dF persists.
What not to do
dF is not a freezer sensor code. Freezer temperature sensor problems show as F1 Lo or F1 Hi instead.
What you may
notice with it.
The refrigerator problems dF tends to arrive with. Answer these at the refrigerator before anyone is booked.
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In Kenmore's own words
The control displays dF when it detects the freezer door open for more than 1 hour.
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Kenmore bottom-freezer Trio models whose number starts 111; Sears lists dF as the freezer door switch code.
Kenmore dF 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.
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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
about dF.
Can I clear dF myself?
Is dF on my Kenmore Trio a freezer temperature problem?
What if the freezer drawer was shut the whole time and dF still shows?
Back to your everyday
Still showing dF?
Book with the exact characters, the full model number, and whether it is still cooling — on a code, that is the whole starting point.