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Not my fridge :( I'm renting an apartment and they installed some awful fridge where the doors don't close on their own. In fact, there's actually some resistan

Not my fridge :( I'm renting an apartment and they installed some awful fridge where the doors don't close on their own. In fact, there's actually some resistance so that you have to push it with some effort to close it. I've been living here for months and I still forget to close it half the time. But, at least it has a "helpful" feature that beeps at me (very quietly) if it's left open.

grayhatter 2y ago
have you tried cleaning the hinge and applying some oil formulated for metal?
perryizgr8 2y ago
Yeah my new fridge also has this for some reason. There is a sort of detent at the quarter open positon and it won't go past that on its own. You have to push it past that point to close it. And it will beep if you leave it open for a few minutes. Absolutely baffling design.
- marcellus23 2y ago
  This is exactly the case for me. People suggested oiling the hinge or something but from examining the mechanism, it just appears to be designed this way. No idea why.
Brian_K_White 2y ago
I bet it's still designed to and trying to, and simply failing to for any number of reasons. It's fine if it tries but only weakly, and fails sometimes because of that. One fridge failing every time is still just "sometimes" for the design. Failing to chop off a babies head is an intentional part of the design, and it's still auto-close even when it fails to close because of an obstruction or improper installation or manufacturing defect or even because of a bad design that would never work well but was intended to. There's no way any fridge is actually designed to stop before closing. That will be some assembly or desgn flaw like the seal rubs or something. I had to hack my mother in laws fridge to prevent the door seals from interfering and preventing the doors from closing all the way. It worked fine when it was new, but after a short while the shitty design of the door to door seals, the seals hit and rub on each other and and after a while the seals started to pull out to where they then interfered. The door was still designed to close itself, and tried to, just another part of the design sabotaged that intention. It's such a weak force normally that it's easy interfere with. A hinge installed slightly off will look fine and work fine, but the seal on the hinge side maybe rubs just a bit, and that's enough to spoil it. Or a nick in a teflon washer acting as a bearing, producing a detent resting spot. Could be anything but there is no way it's in the drawings and designed to do that.

grayhatter 2y ago

have you tried cleaning the hinge and applying some oil formulated for metal?

perryizgr8 2y ago

Yeah my new fridge also has this for some reason. There is a sort of detent at the quarter open positon and it won't go past that on its own. You have to push it past that point to close it. And it will beep if you leave it open for a few minutes. Absolutely baffling design.

marcellus23 2y ago
This is exactly the case for me. People suggested oiling the hinge or something but from examining the mechanism, it just appears to be designed this way. No idea why.

Brian_K_White 2y ago

I bet it's still designed to and trying to, and simply failing to for any number of reasons. It's fine if it tries but only weakly, and fails sometimes because of that. One fridge failing every time is still just "sometimes" for the design. Failing to chop off a babies head is an intentional part of the design, and it's still auto-close even when it fails to close because of an obstruction or improper installation or manufacturing defect or even because of a bad design that would never work well but was intended to. There's no way any fridge is actually designed to stop before closing. That will be some assembly or desgn flaw like the seal rubs or something. I had to hack my mother in laws fridge to prevent the door seals from interfering and preventing the doors from closing all the way. It worked fine when it was new, but after a short while the shitty design of the door to door seals, the seals hit and rub on each other and and after a while the seals started to pull out to where they then interfered. The door was still designed to close itself, and tried to, just another part of the design sabotaged that intention. It's such a weak force normally that it's easy interfere with. A hinge installed slightly off will look fine and work fine, but the seal on the hinge side maybe rubs just a bit, and that's enough to spoil it. Or a nick in a teflon washer acting as a bearing, producing a detent resting spot. Could be anything but there is no way it's in the drawings and designed to do that.