Part
Drawer Cover & Glass
Product Rating
Customer
Richard from CA
Problem
Mounting points for rollers attached to shelf structure for fruit/vegetable drawer had broken off.
Tools
Power screwdriver.
Repair & Advice
Detaching the two steel shelf support brackets from the original shelf and reattaching them to the sides of the new shelf was a breeze by simply removing/reusing the five obvious screws at each support bracket. Attaching the two original rollers to the new shelf, (note that those rollers are not included with the new shelf), took a little caution as they are self-tapping screws going into untapped holes in the new shelf plastic; be careful to drive the screws straight in.
Story submitted on February 4, 2020
Part
Drawer Cover & Glass
Product Rating
Customer
William from OR
Problem
Guide wheels broke loose of shelf mechanism in 2-year-old Frigidaire refrigerator.
Tools
Phillips screwdriver.
Repair & Advice
The Drawer cover is a plastic shelf with a mechanism underneath that holds one of the vegetable drawers. Despite being barely 2 years old, the old shelf's plastic wheel mounts both broke. The new part seems to be exactly like the old one and appears to be OEM.
Repair was a simple process and took about 10 minutes.
I pulled out the old drawer cover, which had a hooked metal mount on each side. I removed the screws from these mounts, and then separated them from the old drawer cover. Then I used the same screws to mount them to the new drawer cover. Finally I screwed the old guide wheels into the appropriate places on the new drawer cover and hung it back on the rack inside the fridge. The vegetable drawer slid right in like it was supposed to.
Advice: don't drive the screws (especially for the wheels) screws too hard. This plastic is not made to last and it won't take that kind of stress. It's not a very good design by the refrigerator manufacturer (Frigidaire AKA Electrolux), but getting you to buy more parts and more refrigerators is their business model.
Story submitted on January 7, 2021
Part
Drawer Cover & Glass
Product Rating
Customer
Steven from MD
Problem
Wheel broke off crisper drawer cover.
Tools
Phillips Screwdriver
Repair & Advice
We overloaded a drawer and broke the wheel from the cover. There are four total wheels. Two on the drawer itself and two on the cover. Our broken part was the right cover wheel. You have to reuse the metal arms that connect to the refrigerator rear wall and the wheels from the old cover on this new one. As other reviewers have shared, be careful screwing in the where. The new holes are not threaded as the screws on the wheels are designed to cut their own threads. Tighten slowly and don’t over tighten.
Story submitted on May 27, 2020