Waeco fridge repairer Quilpie-Birdsville area??

I doubt there will be anyone in Quilpie, Windorah or Birdsville. Charleville may have someone if you want to back track slightly.


Any Rain out that way??


Cheers Kev

Hang a right when you get to Windorah, and head up to Longreach. There a number of refrigeration blokes up there. Surely one of them would be able to help you Monday morning.

Go and see "Chicken" @ Longreach Refrigeration, in Spoonbill St. He's pretty switched on....

Bob.

Had the same trouble with ours last week, $250 to fix, decided to purchase a new one.

Try www.weaco.com.au, they have their service people listed, but as Sir Kev said, there's not much out that way.

Good luck.
Cheers
Baz

This problem can be caused by one of the temp buttons sticking down. The usual fix is to peal the display sticker off from over those lights, remove the push button and sand it down a bit so it does not stick then replace the sticker with a new one.
My smaller Waeco does the same as yours and I find I can just keep tapping the stuck button until it un-sticks, the hard part is getting it to un-stick on the right temp setting you want.
If this does not work you could always remove the sticker to release the button until you can get to a service centre to buy a new one.
Hope this is of help
Chris

Quilpie has an industrial estate with plenty of businesses. My advice is try asking the people at the Channel Caravan Park, they'd know if anyone in Quilpie can help you. They helped us last month by referring us to an engineer after we had trouble with our camper.

Thanks everyone for your comments.

As you guys mentioned, it has turned out to be the temperature switch which had felt like it got stuck down. For a while it freed itself up but now it looks like it's burnt itself out (I unscrewed the cover to see the circuit board underneath and some white corrosion/dust around the push switch).

So it is now running at 5 out of 7 (7 being freeze) and stuck on that (ie the button has stopped working). We are in Birdsville preparing for our crossing of the Simpson so will have a wander around town tomorrow morning, but am not going to hold my breathe! I guess I'll need a new circuit board, as don't really want someone trying to resolder that push button switch. The thought of not having a fridge across the simpson is unbearable!

So my plan is to hold out (possibly till Alice Springs) until I can get hold of a Waeco dealer, and get the part. Does anyone know if it's the whole PCB I need, or will they replace just the specific temp switch?