Kenmore refrigerator
showing dr
dr means the control believes a fresh food door has been open for more than an hour.
Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm
- Service indication
- Diagnostic visit
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What dr
actually means.
dr means the control believes a fresh food door has been open for more than an hour. If the doors really were shut, Sears points to the door switches or their wiring, and a switch that reads open with the door closed is replaced.
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What to do when dr 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.
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SourceSears PartsDirect: Kenmore 111 bottom-freezer error codes (Wayback copy, Nov 2019)
Kenmore bottom-freezer Trio models whose number starts 111; Sears lists dr as the refrigerator door switch code.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Kenmore's own guidance for dr on its refrigerators. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Check that the model begins 111 and has a bottom freezer; dr on that chart is about the fresh food doors.
Close the fresh food doors firmly and look for anything that could have held one ajar.
Book a visit if both doors were shut and dr still shows, so the door switches can be tested.
What not to do
dr is not a defrost code. On this chart it belongs to the door switch on the fresh food side.
What you may
notice with it.
The refrigerator problems dr tends to arrive with. Answer these at the refrigerator before anyone is booked.
All problems
Refrigerator Door Not Sealing
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In Kenmore's own words
The control displays dr when it detects a refrigerator 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 dr as the refrigerator door switch code.
Kenmore dr 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
about dr.
Can I clear dr myself?
Why does my Kenmore Trio show dr when the doors are closed?
Is dr on a Kenmore 111 a defrost code?
Back to your everyday
Still showing dr?
Book with the exact characters, the full model number, and whether it is still cooling — on a code, that is the whole starting point.