--- title: "Refrigerator error code rF" description: "LG refrigerator error code rF: On the cabinets that cool each compartment separately, the refrigerator side has a fan of its own, and this code is that fan." url: "https://lgmiami.support/error-codes/refrigerator-fridge-fan/" date_modified: "2026-09-05" Appliance type: "Refrigerators" --- # Refrigerator error code rF ### What rF means on this make On the cabinets that cool each compartment separately, the refrigerator side has a fan of its own, and this code is that fan. The symptom is a fresh food compartment drifting warm while the freezer stays perfectly hard — the combination that makes people think the machine has lost its gas when it has not. As with the freezer fan, the honest first suspect is ice rather than the motor, and after that a blade fouled by something in the compartment or a duct blocked with food pushed too far back. ### The other ways LG prints this one rF · Er rF · r rF LG publishes a condition and then every string that can stand for it, and which one your machine shows depends on the panel it was built with — OE, E03 and E21 are one condition on a washer, and Er dS, F dS and r dS are one sensor on different evaporators. They are one page here, so whichever of them you searched for, this is the right page. ### Where this appears, and why not to clear it On the appliance’s own display. LG reports errors two ways: machines with a digital display show a code, and the laundry machines without one blink their indicator lights instead. Both are published by the maker and both are on this site. Photograph what the panel shows before cutting the power. On a refrigerator you can also force the last code back onto the display by holding Freezer Temperature and Express Frz together for three seconds — LG documents that, and it is the one thing that makes a first visit more useful. A code that has been reset is information a technician no longer has. ### What to do about it - Check the vents in the back wall of the fresh food compartment are not buried under food. - Hold the door switch in and listen for the fan. Silence with the compressor running is the case that needs a visit. - Look for frost around the vents, which means the cold is arriving and not being moved. - Do not raise the thermostat to compensate. It makes the compartment colder in one spot and no better anywhere else. ### Where this goes next The job this usually becomes is [evaporator fan repair](/services/evaporator-fan-repair/), and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes, reminders and settings rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call [(305) 419-0291](tel:+13054190291) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything. Refrigerator fan What this one means What rF means on this make On the cabinets that cool each compartment separately, the refrigerator side has a fan of its own, and this code is that fan. The symptom is a fresh food compartment drifting warm while the freezer stays perfectly hard — the combination that makes people think the machine has lost its gas when it has not. As with the freezer fan, the honest first suspect is ice rather than the motor, and after that a blade fouled by something in the compartment or a duct blocked with food pushed too far back. The other ways LG prints this one rF · Er rF · r rF LG publishes a condition and then every string that can stand for it, and which one your machine shows depends on the panel it was built with — OE, E03 and E21 are one condition on a washer, and Er dS, F dS and r dS are one sensor on different evaporators. They are one page here, so whichever of them you searched for, this is the right page. Where this appears, and why not to clear it On the appliance’s own display. LG reports errors two ways: machines with a digital display show a code, and the laundry machines without one blink their indicator lights instead. Both are published by the maker and both are on this site. Photograph what the panel shows before cutting the power. On a refrigerator you can also force the last code back onto the display by holding Freezer Temperature and Express Frz together for three seconds — LG documents that, and it is the one thing that makes a first visit more useful. A code that has been reset is information a technician no longer has. What to do about it Check the vents in the back wall of the fresh food compartment are not buried under food. Hold the door switch in and listen for the fan. Silence with the compressor running is the case that needs a visit. Look for frost around the vents, which means the cold is arriving and not being moved. Do not raise the thermostat to compensate. It makes the compartment colder in one spot and no better anywhere else. Where this goes next The job this usually becomes is evaporator fan repair, and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes, reminders and settings rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call [(305) 419-0291](tel:+13054190291) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything. --- **[Read full article: Refrigerator error code rF](https://lgmiami.support/error-codes/refrigerator-fridge-fan/)**