Service
Kenmore temperature sensor replacement
The component that fails without looking like anything. A sensor that reports the wrong number makes an appliance hold a temperature it is not at, confidently and without complaint — a refrigerator that is warm while the display says it is cold, or an oven that is consistently twenty-five degrees out.
- 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 $155
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
Compare the appliance against a reference
An independent probe in the same space. Two numbers that disagree by a fixed amount is the finding; two that agree means the sensor is not the story.
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Read the sensor itself
Resistance against the builder's own table for that appliance. This is where the prefix matters again, because those tables are not interchangeable.
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03
Check the wiring to it
A damaged lead reads exactly like a failed sensor and costs nothing to rule out.
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Fit and verify
Positioned as the builder specifies, because a sensor in the airflow reads differently from one out of it.
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Prove the result
The appliance measured again after it settles, and the numbers shown to you.
Applies to
The Kenmore units we carry this work out on
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French door · side-by-side · top and bottom freezer Kenmore refrigerator repair in Miami
The appliance the badge is best known for, and the one where knowing who built it changes the repair most. A Kenmore refrigerator in a South Florida kitchen is a Whirlpool, a Frigidaire or an LG underneath, and the first three digits of the model number say which. That decides the parts, the diagnostic sequence and whether there is a published code table to read at all — so it is the first thing we ask for.
- 106 is Whirlpool, 253 is Frigidaire, 795 is LG
- Ice, water and the defrost circuit are most of the call volume
- The parts catalog is the builder's, not the badge's
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Upright and chest · garage and utility room Kenmore freezer repair in Miami
Standalone uprights and chest freezers, most of them Frigidaire-built or Whirlpool-built, and most of them living somewhere hot: a garage, a utility room, a covered porch. That location is half the diagnosis. A freezer asked to hold zero degrees in a garage that reaches ninety-five is working at the edge of what it was designed for, and it fails differently from one in a kitchen.
- 253 is Frigidaire-built, 106 is Whirlpool-built
- Where it lives decides how it fails here
- Manual-defrost chest units have no defrost circuit to blame
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Single and double · built into cabinetry Kenmore wall oven repair in Miami
Built-in wall ovens, single and double, mostly Frigidaire-built. What separates a wall oven from the oven in a range is not the cooking — it is the access. The appliance is fixed into joinery, often at height and often stacked with a microwave above it, and getting to the back of it is a real part of the job rather than a detail.
- Access is a genuine part of the work on these
- Sensor and element cover most of the calls
- A stacked installation changes the visit
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Freestanding and slide-in · gas and electric Kenmore range repair in Miami
Freestanding and slide-in ranges, gas and electric. 790 is the number we see most and it is Frigidaire-built; 362 turns up on GE-built ranges and 911 on another range family altogether. A range is the appliance a household notices fastest when it stops, and it is also the one where the difference between a sensor, an element and a control board is the difference between a modest repair and a conversation about replacing it.
- 790 is Frigidaire, 362 is GE, 911 is a range prefix too
- Oven sensor and bake element are most of the calls
- Gas surface problems are usually the igniter, not the valve
In more detail
About Kenmore temperature sensor replacement
About sensor replacement on a badge-engineered appliance
A temperature sensor reports a resistance, and that number means whatever the manufacturer's chart says it means. Whirlpool, LG, Frigidaire and GE publish different charts. This is the clearest job on the whole site for the rule everything here runs on: read against the wrong company's table, a perfectly healthy sensor looks broken and gets replaced. The component itself is modest on every one of them, so what this figure buys is knowing which sensor is lying — and whether it is the sensor at all, rather than the control reading it.
This article is based on:
- Official manufacturer documentation
- Internal repair procedures
- Technician repair history
- Company quality standards
Before you book
Questions about Kenmore temperature sensor replacement
My oven runs hot. Is that the sensor?
It can be, and it can equally be calibration, which needs no part at all. Both are checked in the same visit and the free one is checked first.
Why is a cheap part not a cheap job?
Because you are paying for the measurement, not the component. Being right about which probe has drifted, against the right builder's chart, is the entire value of the visit.
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.
Neighborhoods people ask for by name