I just wanted to say thank you sooo much Nick. I just got a Hotpoint fridge freezer from Curry's with exactly the squeaky click clack problem described here coming from the back of it. However my model isn't the same one as listed here, but a newer model. It's only been plugged in two days but this double squeaky clicking when the motor on was driving me nuts. I've had fridge freezers before (never a hotpoint tho) and don't mind the odd crack as the ice breaks, but not this odd noisy distracting clicking.

Anyway, I tried everything - all the settings, levelling it etc. Felt like kicking it and screaming.

After finding Nick's fix for his model, I looked at the back of my machine for the copper 'sausage' thing at the bottom left. In my case it was already horizontal, but I noticed the very slim copper wire joining it was in a very very tight zigzag - almost pinched looking at one 'zig' point. So, with great trepidation as I'd tried everything else, I turned off the appliance, unplugged it, and very very gently pulled the zig zag in the copper wire so the angles degrees weren't quite so sharp at the corners (very minimal adjustment really) - keeping the sausage shape as horizontal as I could (didn't touch the thick silver wire joined to the other side of the copper sausage).

Without much hope I turned the appliance back on and waited for the motor to start and the dreaded clicking which usually started a minute or two after the motor. And blow me down. NO MORE CLICKS! It's been running happily for hours now without a squeaky click. Touch wood it's fixed!

It would be quite easy for that small wire to have been knocked or squashed a bit in transit by the delivery men man-handling it into the house or in the factory as the part isn't protected much.

But thank you Nick for giving me a hint for something to try. I couldn't find anything else with this exact noise I had with any fixes. And it was irratating the hell out of me.

Hi everybody............ {fellow Clucking Fridge Members} ~ be careful how you say that!

 

 

I think I might have the answer to your problems.....

....... as you can see from previous replies on this forum,

this has been an on-going problem for 1 year 5 months.

 

 

Having got an independent engineer's report {who totally agreed that the FF was too noisy},

the Currys KnowHow Team arranged for another Hotpoint engineer to visit me. They said...

....."Hotpoint have a fix for this problem and they will carry this out at no cost"!

 

Today the engineer visited and he looked up {on his laptop} to find a Technical Bulletin

~ titled How to cure the Click-Clack on my model {something like that anyway}....

..., and found Technical Bulletin RE164.

 

 

This was issued in November 2012, so I need not have waited until now to have the fix 'installed'.

 

What was the fix, I hear you all asking......

...... wait for it and don't laugh...

. behind the FF is a copper 'looking' pipe running down the left hand side {as you look at the back of the FF}.

 

 

At the bottom end is a 'reservoir', looking a bit like a sausage! This is normally vertical...

.... the fix is to carefully,

I repeat carefully,

bend the pipe so the 'reservoir' is put into the horizontal position!!!

 

 

I gather that this is the gas pipe for the FF.

Note: Not a sharp bend or the pipe might be 'crack'.

 

Now I know it sounds, daft.......

..BUT my clucking fridge is no longer clucking!

It has been 6 hours since the engineer has left and it is still 'cluck-less'!!!

 

I have taken a picture {how sad} to show the reservoir {circled} in its new horizontal position. If you wish to see this.....

 

 

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I hope you either have luck with Hotpoint by quoting this Technical Bulletin or if you are out of guarantee

{as I was, but it had been going on since 'day 1'}, you might try it yourself........BUT be careful bending that pipe!!!

 

 

I wish you all the best and hope you all have a 'Peaceful cluck-less Christmas'

 

 

PS My wife and I agree how quiet the kitchen is now............ spook'ily' quiet!

 

 

Regards

 

 

Nick

 

 

 

 

The fix