Questions & Answers for: Kenmore melted plastic food Dishwashers

plastic housing was to hot to touch without a hot-mit. Unscrewed the bulbs and set aside out of children's reach and combustable materials. I'm filing a complaint and service repair today. 8/3/08 Sean

...plastic over the light fixture was partially melted, the light fixture was scorched. The food products on the 2 top shelves and doors had to be thrown away as well as some other iffy products. After ...

...plastic components) to melt the frost behind the wall that is blocking the air vents to the fresh food compartment. If you are handy look at your parts list or the breakdown at sears.com and find the ...

...melted It appears your defrost timer or thermostat has failed in this instance. For replacement parts - head on over to PartSelect.com or RepairClinic.com and enter in your full model number for a ...

...plastic and damage the refrigerator, food and possibly smoke damage. If this is not the case please let me know and I will assist you if there is something other that this causing the problem. Thanks ...

...food moved. I do not recommend using a hair dryer since it can melt things you never want to melt.(Those components are plastic and vinyl). The DUAL WATER VALVE in the bottom back of the machine, ...

...food (yep, from the inside). This will expose your condenser coils. If it?s one big block of ice, then your defrost timer is bad. If the condensers are only lightly frosted on a portion of them and ...

melted causing some nasty damage to the plastic and vinyl components. Ideally unplugging the machine and leaving the freezer door open overnight is the best way, but that creates problems with food if

...plastic or styrofoam,after you think it's melted out start the machine and put your hand up in the left hand corner in the fridge section and see if you can feel any cold air blowing in,there ...

...food to a safe storage location and turn the refrigerator off for 24 hours leaving the freezer drawer open slightly. Remove the ice from the ice bin. Gain access to the rear if the refrigerator and ...