Why is my fridge water coming out of the ice maker?
The refrigerator is incorrectly routing water into the ice maker tray instead of the water dispenser. This causes the tray to overfill and spill water out of the ice chute, leading to constant dripping and annoying puddles in the exterior tray.
What people tried
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Why is my fridge water coming out of the ice maker?
- 1Cleaning up the water from the tray every time they come homeDid this help you?
- 2Calling warranty service to replace the solenoid/water line valve or trim the water lineDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Everything seems great, except the water spout drips during the day.”source ↗
“Honestly seems like it’s worse at times (when filling the ice bucket), and then other days it will be bone dry.”source ↗
“it is become quite annoying to have to clean up water from the tray every time I come home.”source ↗
“After a couple minutes of holding the button, finally water did start coming out, however it was from the ice dispenser, not the water dispenser.”source ↗
“Upon investigating, it looks like the ice try in the ice maker is full of water, so I'm guessing what's going on is that for some reason, the water dispenser is dispensing the water into the ice maker instead.”source ↗
Where this came up
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