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title: "Start from what it is doing, not from what it might be."
description: "Thermador refrigerator problems and the rest of the kitchen: what each behavior means, which alarm is which, and the four that are not repairs at all."
url: "https://thermadormiami.support/symptoms/"
date_modified: "2026-08-18"
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# Symptoms archive

## Start from what it is doing, not from what it might be.

Nobody searches for a control module. These pages start from the behavior you can see, list what it usually turns out to be with the cheap causes first, and say plainly when you do not need us — four of them exist mainly to save you a visit.

24 — symptoms, each with its own page

87 — error codes and signals decoded

4 — pages that tell you not to call

from $95 — diagnostic, credited to the repair

## Find the behavior, then the cause

Each page lists the likely causes cheapest first, what to check yourself, and which repair answers it if none of the free checks do.

## This make publishes no refrigeration error codes at all.

Its cooking and dishwashing are documented in detail — eighty-seven conditions are decoded on this site. Its refrigeration is not: the pages where such codes would live do not exist. What a Freedom column gives you instead is an alarm, a flashing symbol, and a self-test you can run yourself.

So on this brand the refrigeration symptom pages carry the work a code archive does elsewhere. They tell you which alarm means what, how to read the highest temperature the cabinet reached before you clear it, and how to run the self-test the manufacturer documents.

## Ask us before you book. We will tell you if you do not need us.

Wet plastics, an induction zone that switched itself off, a filter symbol that needs three seconds on two buttons, a pan induction cannot see — all four have pages here that end with “you do not need a technician”, and we would rather you read them.

**Call [(305) 846-7685](tel:+13058467685)** with the model number and what it is doing, and we will say honestly which side of that line you are on.

## Tell us what it is doing.

The model number and the behavior are usually enough for us to say what is likely, what it involves and what it should cost before anyone comes out.

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