Service
Kenmore gas dryer igniter replacement
A gas dryer that tumbles cold. The igniter, the flame sensor and the gas valve coils are the usual sequence, and they are tested rather than swapped — all three produce the same complaint and only one of them is the answer.
- From $95 diagnostic, credited to the repair
- 59 cities and neighborhoods covered
- OEM parts available on order
- In writing the price, before anything is opened
Before you read on
What this job costs and how it is agreed
A starting figure, not a quote. What moves it is the model, how the unit is built in and which part it needs — settled after the on-site diagnostic.
Starts at
from $185
After a diagnostic from $95, which comes off the bill when you go ahead.
or call (305) 680-1018
Diagnostic
From $95, credited to the repair
The price
In writing, before anything is opened
Warranty
On the labor we performed
On the visit
How this visit actually goes
The same order every time, so nothing is opened and nothing is charged before you have seen the figure and said yes.
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01
Watch an ignition attempt
Does the igniter come up to color, and if a flame appears, does it stay. Those are two separate observations and they lead to two separate parts.
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02
Test the flame sensor
A sensor that has failed open stops the igniter from ever being asked to glow, which looks exactly like a dead igniter.
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03
Test the valve coils
A dryer that glows and never lights is usually here. Coils are replaced as a set.
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04
Check the vent and the safety circuit
Same reasoning as the electric dryer: restricted air opens protection, and protection that opens repeatedly has a cause.
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05
Run it and confirm the flame cycles
Ignition, burn and cut-out watched over a full cycle.
Applies to
The Kenmore units we carry this work out on
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Electric and gas · 110, 796 and 417 Kenmore dryer repair in Miami
Electric and gas dryers built by Whirlpool, LG and Frigidaire under the badge. On this appliance the single most useful thing we can tell you is that a large share of no-heat and long-cycle calls are the vent rather than the dryer — and in South Florida houses the vent runs are longer, flatter and wetter than the ones these machines were designed around.
- 110 is Whirlpool-built, 796 is LG-built, 417 is Frigidaire-built
- The vent causes more of these calls than any part does
- Gas and electric fail in different places
In more detail
About Kenmore gas dryer igniter replacement
About gas dryer heat problems
A gas dryer lights in a defined order, and where it stops in that order points at three different components. The mistake this repair is known for is fitting an igniter to a machine whose real problem is flame sensing: it lights, runs briefly, goes cold exactly as before, and a fragile part has been spent for nothing. Testing the sequence properly is what this figure buys. The vent is inspected as part of the job because on a gas machine airflow is a combustion matter as well as a drying one, and this is licensed work.
This article is based on:
- Official manufacturer documentation
- Internal repair procedures
- Technician repair history
- Company quality standards
Before you book
Questions about Kenmore gas dryer igniter replacement
It heats for a minute and then goes cold.
That is flame sensing rather than ignition in most cases. The burner is lighting and something is failing to confirm it, and the fix is usually not the igniter.
Can I fit an igniter myself?
We would advise against it. It is a gas appliance, the part is fragile enough to be damaged by handling, and the sequence needs verifying afterwards.
Where we do it
Across Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach
Same terms everywhere we go: an on-site diagnostic first, the price agreed in writing, and the exact figure confirmed once we have seen the unit.
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