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title: "Ice maker repair"
description: "LG ice maker repair: lG's ice makers live inside the refrigerator — in the door, in the freezer, or as the second unit that makes round Craft Ice — and"
url: "https://lgmiami.support/services/ice-maker-repair/"
date_modified: "2026-09-06"
Appliance type: "Ice makers, Refrigerators"
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# LG ice maker repair

### Slow ice is usually a cold problem, not an ice maker problem

An ice maker is a tray, a sensor and a motor waiting on cold air, so a great many calls that begin with a broken ice maker end somewhere else entirely. A freezer that has drifted several degrees above where it should be will still keep food frozen and will not fill a bin at anything like a normal rate. The round-ice unit on the cabinets that have one is slower than the main tray by design and always will be. And a household that has doubled for the holidays is asking for more than any home machine makes in a day. The compartment temperature and the fill get checked before the module comes out.

What this involves

IF, IS and It: fan, sensor and motor, each named by the manufacturer

A tray full of ice with an empty bucket is the mechanism; an empty dry tray is water

The module comes out as an assembly

Split it with the water dispenser

Water working and no ice moves the whole question inside the compartment. That is ten seconds of diagnosis.

Look in the bay with a torch

Full tray, empty bucket, frost around the fan — each of the three says something different.

Rule out the fill side

A frozen fill tube, air after a filter change, or a valve that is not opening fully. None of them shows a code.

Test the module

The motor, the sensor and the heater in the tray, measured rather than swapped.

Give it a day before closing

An ice maker takes hours to produce anything. The job is verified the next day, not in the driveway.

### How much should it make in a day?

It varies by cabinet, and the number in the manual assumes a closed door and full water pressure. Half of what the book says with a freezer that measures correctly is worth a visit; a quarter of it means something has stopped.

### The ice tastes bad. Is that this repair?

Usually not. It is the filter, the water line, or a bin of old cubes that has spent a year absorbing the freezer around it. Empty the bin, change the filter, and give it two days before you decide.

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