Having a fraught afternoon on a very hot day on a site near Cambrai.
First my SatNav brought me here by the scenic route so I missed lunch. Then, having sorted the awning etc, I was looking forward to a freshly brewed coffee on my 6 week old Lavazza coffee machine ....... which refused to work. Nearly an hour later I had got the cover off and got it working ( a poor connection likely as a result of me folding the cable to store it). So I brewed a coffee and went to the fridge for milk .... and then I discover the Dometic fridge locked fast and no amount of tapping, applying WD40 and swearing at it would persuade it to open. It would have been lovely to have a cold beer and sit down in the sunshine to figure out a solution but, of course, the cold beers were also in the fridge!!!
Anyway the solution for those with a similar problem: You can prise off the slider switch without damage. It is a push fit (I used a hook but a small screwdriver would do equally well.) Once that is off you have access to the small pawl which the slider switch acts on mechanically and can move that with screwdriver or whatever.
I suspect someone had re-assembled mine badly after a similar problem but it is possible to force the switch out of alignment so that it no longer works efficiently . My initial problem was the fridge flying open on roundabouts which I had cured only now to encounter this fresh problem.
P.S. I have now had both a coffee and a beer so the inner man is satisfied!
First my SatNav brought me here by the scenic route so I missed lunch. Then, having sorted the awning etc, I was looking forward to a freshly brewed coffee on my 6 week old Lavazza coffee machine ....... which refused to work. Nearly an hour later I had got the cover off and got it working ( a poor connection likely as a result of me folding the cable to store it). So I brewed a coffee and went to the fridge for milk .... and then I discover the Dometic fridge locked fast and no amount of tapping, applying WD40 and swearing at it would persuade it to open. It would have been lovely to have a cold beer and sit down in the sunshine to figure out a solution but, of course, the cold beers were also in the fridge!!!
Anyway the solution for those with a similar problem: You can prise off the slider switch without damage. It is a push fit (I used a hook but a small screwdriver would do equally well.) Once that is off you have access to the small pawl which the slider switch acts on mechanically and can move that with screwdriver or whatever.
I suspect someone had re-assembled mine badly after a similar problem but it is possible to force the switch out of alignment so that it no longer works efficiently . My initial problem was the fridge flying open on roundabouts which I had cured only now to encounter this fresh problem.
P.S. I have now had both a coffee and a beer so the inner man is satisfied!
