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Mine makes a loud noise, I tracked it down to a fan, and I think the bearing is bad. It should be easy to replace a fan I think (although a little hassle since I have to remove the ice maker to get to it).

And before I even got around to purchasing a new fan, the water dospenser stopped working, and I haven't bothered looking at it yet.

Ideally I would just like to replace the whole thing with a quieter refrigerator, but I can't seem to find any reviews that actually address quietness.



My solution to that was to avoid fridges which have fans (I love maximum quietness). That means you won't get the "No Frost" feature - for me the tradeoff was worth it. After that, I sorted the friges in an online comparator by the declared noise level (in dB), and chose the most quiet one. I'm pretty happy with it.

Unfortunately, it makes annoying gas noises from time to time - apparently, that's a feature of all modern fridges (or so I was told by the repairman) - the noise is made by gas they use instead of freon. I learned to live with those noises and no longer notice them.


How did you search/find/sort that?


Through Polish price comparator ceneo.pl. Unfortunately, they don't have an English language version.

In any case, here's the link to the fridges:

https://www.ceneo.pl/Lodowki;szukaj-lod%c3%b3wka+lod%c3%b3wk...

In the search filters on the left, "Poziom hałasu" is the noise level in decibels.




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