--- title: "Everything LG builds for a home, and what goes wrong with each of it here." description: "LG appliances — appliances archive." url: "https://lgmiami.support/appliances/" date_modified: "2026-09-05" --- # Appliances archive ## Everything LG builds for a home, and what goes wrong with each of it here. Three hundred and forty-seven refrigerators, three hundred and ninety-seven cooking appliances, a hundred and eight dishwashers and two hundred and twenty-two laundry machines are in LG's US catalog. This is what each of them is, and what we are called out for. 12 — appliances on this badge 347 — refrigerators in LG's US catalog 397 — cooking appliances in it 61 — model pages on this site ## Twelve cards Each one says what the appliance is on this make, what tends to go wrong with it here, and which of LG's codes belong to it. No appliances are published yet. ## The freezer, the ice maker, and one wine cellar LG’s US catalog has no standalone upright freezer in it and no undercounter ice machine — the only ice-maker products it sells are the automatic ice maker kits that go inside a refrigerator. So the freezer here is the bottom drawer of a French door and the ice maker is the unit in the door or the freezer, which is exactly where LG’s own FF, FS, dS, IF, IS and It codes live. Those pages are written about the object people actually call about rather than a machine LG does not make. The wine cellar is one machine, an LG SIGNATURE, and the page says so. ## Direct Drive, linear compressors, and what they change Two pieces of engineering run through this catalog and both change what a repair is. On laundry, **Direct Drive** couples the motor straight to the drum: no belt, no pulley, far fewer small failures, and a larger job on the rare occasion the drive goes. On refrigeration, the **linear compressor** carries a long parts warranty that follows the machine rather than the owner — so a sealed-system quote on a covered cabinet is a very different number, and we establish that before quoting rather than after. ## Two things worth having ready None of them are unusual here, and all three are cheaper to prevent than to repair. The model number, off the appliance - Refrigerators: inside, on the left wall of the fresh food compartment. - Washers and dryers: inside the door opening, or on the back panel. - Ranges and wall ovens: on the frame behind the door, or under the cooktop. - Dishwashers: on the edge of the door, visible when it is open. What the machine is reporting - A code on the display, written down exactly — including the letter in front of it. - On a refrigerator, hold Freezer Temperature and Express Frz together for three seconds to bring the last code back. - On a laundry machine with no numbers, count a full blink sequence and photograph it. - Do not cut the power first. A code that has been reset is information nobody has. ## Or start from your model Real numbers out of LG's own catalog, with what goes wrong on each. ## The compartment next door is an instrument On this make the freezer is part of the refrigerator, which turns out to be useful. A freezer that is failing while the fresh food side holds says something quite different from both of them drifting together — and on the cabinets with two evaporators LG puts that difference into the code prefix itself. Reading the other compartment is free and it is the first thing worth doing. ## Questions about the equipment Do you work on every LG appliance? — Everything on this page: refrigeration, freezers, ice makers, the wine cellar, dishwashers, washers, dryers, ranges, wall ovens, cooktops, microwaves and range hoods. What we do not do is televisions and air conditioning, which LG also makes and which are a different trade. Is a built-in harder than a freestanding machine? — Sometimes, and it is fair to say why. Everything electrical and thermal is the same. What differs is access — a wall oven is screwed into joinery and has to come out on a stand before its back is reachable — and that is why the same repair is a different figure on a range and on a wall oven. How old is too old? — It depends on the part rather than the year. An element, an igniter, a pump or a door lock is worth doing on a machine well into its second decade. A sealed system or a control board on a fifteen-year-old cabinet is a conversation, and we will have it before the work rather than after. ## What LG actually sells in this country ### Counted, not estimated LG’s US catalog carries 347 refrigerators, 397 cooking appliances, 108 dishwashers and 222 laundry machines. The model prefixes are worth learning if you own one: LFXS, LFX, LSXS and LMXS on refrigeration; LRE and LRG on electric and gas ranges; LDE and LDG on double ovens; DLEX and DLGX on dryers; WM and WT on washers; LDT and LDF on dishwashers; LCE on cooktops and HCED on hoods. ### What the catalog does not have No standalone freezer, no undercounter ice machine, and one wine cellar. That is not a gap in this site — it is what the make sells, and the pages for those three are written about the compartment rather than about a machine that does not exist. ## Tell us the appliance and the model number. With those two we can usually say what is likely before anybody sets off, and bring the part rather than come back for it. --- **[Read full article: Appliances archive](https://lgmiami.support/appliances-archive/)**