Best Fisher & Paykel French Door Fridges / Refrigerators

FaultCode20 Flapper Heater - Wire broken! The fridge beeps 20 times (exact) when opening the door for this fault, the code is also shown on the… Read more

diagnostic display (see graphics how to read that one).

What I did to repair: Remove the cover at the bottom of the flapper (1 screw), and you see a pair of wires going to the bottom end of the heater built into the flapper. Turns you can pull down the heater - pulling it down just a little makes it much easier to disconnect the plug. Once disconnected, I measured resistance of heater as 38ohm. Odd, because other sources (including AI and youtube videos) suggest it should be 15ohm...

Next I remove the cover at the top of the left door - there you can unplug the connector, and access the wire going to the heater. A paper clip slides nicely into the end of the connector (both top and bottom end), and I was able to confirm that one of the wires has an open circuit with my multimeter. Pulling (hard) on that wire reveals where the wire is broken.

I removed the flapper (first remove the spring), and then you can see where the wire comes from: from behind the door seal (see photo). With the wire separated at the break, I pushed some heatshrink over one end, soldered them back together, and moved the heatshrink to cover it up. That fixed it! (fingers crossed this lasts the remaining life of the fridge)

Final comment to Fisher & Paykel: the flimsy thin/poor quality wire is pre-programmed to fail eventually, as it has to make the 90deg move of the flapper every time you open/close the left door.

Like the fridge, but reassembling it after cleaning is IMPOSSIBLE! Looks good, works well, is nice and quiet. BUT, if you take anything out of it and… Read more

then try to reassemble? A nightmare. Yes, there are videos and instructions. The videos are poor quality, too fast and ignore or skip over essential bits. A power failure happened while I was away and the freezer had to be taken apart to clean. I discovered later that F&P ‘do not recommend’ that you do this. What you are supposed to do when you have a freezer part full of tomato gunk that defrosted, ran everywhere inside and then refrozen is ignored. I had to finally get a technician in at considerable expense to do it, after I and others had spent enormous time and effort trying to follow the skimpy instructions. I am now stuck again, dammit, after the veggie containers needed to be thoroughly cleaned. I simply canNOT figure out how to get 2 little plastic clips back and into their places and nothing will work until or unless I do. It’s enough to make me buy a new fridge and no, I won’t be buying F&P again. Pity, I was a long term customer until this fridge. Terrible.

We purchased this fridge for our new home in August of 2024. MODEL ID RF605QUAA The fridge itself is OK as is the freezer. The ice making and cold… Read more

water features are also ok. The issue is the black mat finish of the fridge. I was concerned about a the black mat finish and worried about finger prints, my concerns were dismissed and we were told that finger prints were not an issue, this is an absolute fabrication. The black mat finish shows every single mark and is extremely difficult to clean. You should not need to work up a sweat to get finger prints off a fridge door. It is also very difficult to clean where the fruit and vegetable crispers slide in and out.

i would not recommend this product.

Best fridge I have ever owned! 10/10 Looks attractive with lots of space. Show details

The water dispenser only chills 500ml of water then takes hours before the next 500ml of water will be chilled. Everything else is great but the marketing says it dispenses cool water, even showing a large jug being filled. Show details

Overpriced piece of JUNK – The worst piece of junk ever made . Chinese quality at European price. Expensive , poorly designed and engineered waste of space in my kitchen. Fully… Read more

integrated and expensive to remove and take to the tip. 3 years old and totally useless . The service is non existant. DO NOT BUY