Whirlpool Fridge Door

[Steve W.]

Thanks, I will try to see if I can get one out of Canada. Have a great summer.

I had the same thing happen. What I did was to drill a hole in each side of the tray and a corresponding hole in the inner door liner. I used Riv-nuts in the inner door panel and 8-32 screws along with ½” thick spacers to hold the trays to the door liner. It’s been rock solid. Much less costly (around $10 in parts) than a door replacement.

A complete refer same or updated model can be purchased from the usual big box retailers for less than $600, another option.

 

[dJohn]

I had the same thing happen. What I did was to drill a hole in each side of the tray and a corresponding hole in the inner door liner. I used Riv-nuts in the inner door panel and 8-32 screws along with ½” thick spacers to hold the trays to the door liner. It’s been rock solid. Much less costly (around $10 in parts) than a door replacement.

A complete refer same or updated model can be purchased from the usual big box retailers for less than $600, another option.

Thanks Steve. How did you get the riv-nuts to stay in place? It looks like it is all foam behind the panel, did that hold the nuts? Thanks

 

[Steve W.]

The Riv-nuts compressed tight enough to grab the thin door liner material. I used the spacers to take up the space between the tray and door liner so as not to pull on the Riv-nuts when tightening the screws.

 

[dJohn]

The Riv-nuts compressed tight enough to grab the thin door liner material. I used the spacers to take up the space between the tray and door liner so as not to pull on the Riv-nuts when tightening the screws.

Thanks again Steve, there is not much door liner left where the "nubs" that hold the shelfs in place where. When the shelf came off it took most of the door liner with it. The same thing happened last week to the top shelf, and all it had on it was a dozen eggs. Clean up is another whole story. Will try the adhesive again as it seems to work, just a real ugly fix is all. Thanks for the help, enjoy the rest of the summer.

 

[AbdRahim]

Another idea is velcro. Believe it or not, when the refrige door fell off, I set it back on the hinge bracket (the hinge pins at the bottom broke off.), so I velcroed the door shut and it held for the next two days on the road, until I got to the Service Center, where they replaced the hinge and set the door height properly.
I use 15 lb velcro on everything. I even forgot to remove the video doorbell and drove 150 miles or more before I disvcovered still attached to the MH.

 

[dJohn]

Thanks AbdRahim, I have been giving some thought to trying those 3M Command hooks to see if they would work. Thanks again