16 September 2025
Refrigerator Problems
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Towards the end of last year the Dometic refrigerator in our swift caravan started playing up. It had never been the most reliable Caravan refrigerator that we had used, but basically when set to the maximum on gas, it would not adequately cool things in the freezer part.
There were no warnings to alert us of any problem and when we checked the exhaust, it was warm and we could faintly hear the gas burning.
When we had the caravan serviced a fortnight ago, at the end of the service the caravan was given an ‘All clear’ apart from a tyre warning. We asked the service technician whether the fridge was OK and he said that it appeared to be but asked why we were concerned. We explained the problem and he did a further check and confirmed that everything seemed to be in order and that the freezer part was cooling down but a check with a fridge thermometer showed that it wasn’t as cool as it should have been after an hour on maximum.
He took off the exhaust cover and inlet cover to the refrigerator and examined the gas flame and was surprised that not all of the jets were supporting a flame. We turned off the refrigerator and he blew the jets out with a compressed air line and then we relit the burner. This time all of the jets were supporting flames.
It seems that soot from inside the flue drops onto the burner ‘jets’ when towing.
So if you get this problem don’t be fooled into getting a new circuit board until you have had the burner checked to make sure that it is clear of blockages. Ron Warner
