Kenmore refrigerator
showing High Temp
High Temp on a 253.7034 or 7044 French door lights when the freezer reaches 26°F or the fresh food side reaches 55°F; the alarm sounds and the temperature flashes.
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What High Temp
actually means.
High Temp on a 253.7034 or 7044 French door lights when the freezer reaches 26°F or the fresh food side reaches 55°F; the alarm sounds and the temperature flashes. The Set key silences the tone, but the indicator stays lit until that compartment is colder than its threshold again.
Kenmore refrigerator display · also shown as High Temp alarm
What to do when High Temp 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 Not Cooling
The compartment is warm but the appliance still has power and still makes noise.
MakeKenmore
A retail badge on appliances built by several different manufacturers.
SourceKenmore 253.7034 / 7044 French door use & care guide (archive.org copy)
Kenmore French door models whose number starts 253.7034 or 253.7044 (built by Frigidaire); the 26°F and 55°F limits are the ones in their guide.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Kenmore's own guidance for High Temp on its refrigerators. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Check the model label shows 253; these two thresholds come from that family's guide.
Close every door firmly and look for anything holding one open.
Sort perishables by how long they may have sat above 40°F.
Book a visit if High Temp keeps returning with the doors closed.
What not to do
Pressing Set only quiets the alarm. It does not mean the compartment has cooled down.
What you may
notice with it.
The refrigerator problems High Temp tends to arrive with. Answer these at the refrigerator before anyone is booked.
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In Kenmore's own words
If the freezer temperature reaches 26°F or greater, the alarm will sound and the temperature will flash.
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Kenmore French door models whose number starts 253.7034 or 253.7044 (built by Frigidaire); the 26°F and 55°F limits are the ones in their guide.
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Questions
about High Temp.
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Back to your everyday
Still showing High Temp?
Book with the exact characters, the full model number, and whether it is still cooling — on a code, that is the whole starting point.