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Bypassing the Norcold Recall???

Yahoo Message Number: 80085
(Note that this message is for all still living with RV absorption fridges, as well as the originator of this thread.)
You have given the manufacturer an official excuse for any future failure that takes you out. And, you gave your insurance company an excuse not to cover the loss.
And, why would you keep that thing? Don't just turn it off. Get out of there before the chemicals cut loose on you!! It has warned you. Ours did not.
Someone suggested paying for the advice you were given to modify that fridge. Precious advice would have been if you were told to get out of there until the refrigerator is gone.
FYI: There was no question that the fridge caused our fire since there was a big hole in the wall and roof where the fridge used to be. We had a nearby fire department that kept the fire short, although the inside was toast. Will you? Before any fire people arrive, IF they arrive, these fires burn too much and too hot to be certain of the cause, so blame can be up for grabs--for a while--if you are still around to care.
Our insurance company checked whether we had the recalls done, when they were done, where they were done, and even who did them. Your insurance company will too.
Further, if you think you are going to wake up when those chemicals silently blow, or that you are going to have time to gather your goodies/pouches and wrangle a chain or rope ladder out of a closet and out that hatch and still get Bowser, Boots and everybody out, you have never seen one of these fires or you are delusional.
READ the fire/refrigerator messages on this forum. The people taking the time to send those messages care what happens to you. They care what happens to their RV industry. And, people like us who were lucky not to have been in their RV when it lit up, or somehow managed to escape, now have only a story to tell. Will you even have a story? Why take the risk? Consider turning our loss into your gain and letting our warnings and our stories help you.
Please get rid of that fridge and shout it from the rooftops when you do.

s/Terry with the 2004 Allure 31001 that burned...

Re: Bypassing the Norcold Recall???

Reply #1 –
Yahoo Message Number: 80091
Terry I could not of said it Better, Have a friend with a Fleetwood Discovery a 2005 that caught on Fire in the slide out and he had the recall then it faild! The S.S. Clamp holding the recall black box ate its way through the boiler tubing and let out the Gas. Have a photo to prove it! Man he was lucky. He then had a House Type fridge installed and I helped him do it, Again well said! This is serious NEVER BYPASS A RECALL PEROID!!!! Ken 99 Allure 30356.

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Reply #2 –
Yahoo Message Number: 80092
The best place to install the recall parts is in the shop floor right after you remove the frig and replace it with a res refer.

Mikee

Re: Bypassing the Norcold Recall???

Reply #4 –
Yahoo Message Number: 80096
Best option is to get educated and then install a res refer.
I did like so many others.

Bob Wexler
SOB

Re: Bypassing the Norcold Recall???

Reply #5 –
Yahoo Message Number: 80098
Not to be a smart arse, but the shortest simplest answer is get over it. A res refer is not that bad on electric. A little more diesel for the generator than propane but a huge peace of mind.

Mikee

Re: Bypassing the Norcold Recall???

Reply #6 –
Yahoo Message Number: 80109
For many the residential fridge works well. Others, myself included, wished to retain the option of propane. I went with: -Amish cooling unit

-Two extra pancake cooling fans. One that I turn on in very hot conditions.
-Another cooling fan pulling air from the top side, powered by a solar power fridge vent.
-A smoke detector added behind the fridge.
-A SS30 extinguisher.

Pleased with the cooling and retention of the LP option.
As others have stated, some less polite then is the norm of this board, do your research. Then decide what you want to do. But, do something, as the Norcold solution, again, is less then fantastic...

Best of luck,
Smitty

04 Allure 31017
04 Allure Sold to a nice new owner! Now enjoying a 07 Magna Rembrandt 45' ISX600 #6775
"We're ONDROAD for THEJRNY!" (Toad and Coach license plates, say Hi if you see us!)
 

Re: Bypassing the Norcold Recall???

Reply #7 –
Yahoo Message Number: 80133
A close friend built up his Flixable Bus. He installed a Sun Frost brand Gas Type as he boondocks a lot. They have been around many years. Google them also our group has replaced coolers with Amash units again google Amash cooling units. I Know someone will chime up on this in out CC Yahoo group. Ken, 99 Allure 30356.