Do-It-Yourself Story

Common theme on the blogs was thermistors and or defrost heater/thermostat. Ran self-diagnostics which turned on defrost heater which was fine. All five thermistors indicated ok on diagnostic also, but I read more than one time "replace the thermistors no matter what if your FF section isn't cooling". So I ordered all five thermistors and defrost limiter thermostat. Received all in 48 hours (great shipping service), took me about three hours to replace all thermistors and thermostat just as excellent how-to video indicated. Set to factory presets of 0 and 37 degrees. Next morning came downstairs, actual temperature: 0 and 37 degrees! Lowered FF section to 35 (wife's preference), reefer went right down to 35 and has stayed there since. Also had the common melting ice problem in ice maker which appears to be resolved by this repair. An hour or two of diagnostics, few hours to repair, 60 bucks and it's performing better than ever. Very pleased with the results.