Mitsubishi Electric L4 Glass Grande 710L French Door Questions & Answers (page 4 of 4)

He does NOT say "if left open". Listen to it again. It has an automatically closing hinge system and a damping unit coming into operation within a certain distance to closure. There is no such thing as a fridge door closing automatically "if left open", this would be unpleasant and potentially dangerous.

No he does not say "if left open" he says "the L4 features a smart door automatic closer, meaning the refrigerated doors will close by themselves when left half closed". Do you have one of these fridges? and if so what do you not like about it? katrina

Yes I do have the L4 Grande. It is the best french door fridge in the world.

Make sure you are using a digital thermometer (Jaycar sells them). Also depending on where you place it you will get slightly different readings, as the bottom shelves are colder as cold air stays lower. After you have loaded your groceries use "Super-Cool Freezing" function, which gives a burst of cold. Also I set it at about 1.0 - 2.0 degrees and it is perfect.

had the fridge for 10 days now .Coldest it has got down to is 5.1 degrees. Have it set at .4 degrees

Set it at 1 or 2 or 3 degrees...too easy

The specs show fridge with handles on is 805mm. So you have 5mm to play with. As a backup, be prepared to take your entrance door off (easily done with a cordless). In extremely tight situations the fridge handles wil also need to come off (again easy). Always accurately measure your entrance and take your tape measure to the store and measure the fridge.It's also a good idea to mention to the salesperson at time of purchase so delivery guys can expect a possible delay and allow extra time.

If your door off is not enough, the handles cannot be removed. You need to remove the doors themselves. This is very easily done but you need to be careful of the wiring that crosses inside the cover of the top left hand hinge. Unplug the loom, remove doors, reattach doors, plug in loom and job is done. Make sure fridge is *level* before you reattach to make it easier to bet doors square again. We had to do this as hall door was narrower than front door and all went fine.

Bomber, the fridge door handles do come off. You will be need to take the screw covers off. The covers are a small square shape at the side base of the door handles (total of 8 covers). I was shown this by the guy at 2nds World and that's how I was able to get the fridge into the house.

As tempting as it is to plaster your fridge with magnets to hold the bills, notes and even the kids drawings get yourself a board for these things as a fridge covered with all this stuff looks awful. I was also told that magnets put onto your fridge make the fridge work harder than it should and costing you more power..so I tried this out for myself. If you put a power meter on your plug and measure your consumption for an hour then do the same with a handful of magnets on your fridge believe me you will ditch the magnets.

Anne & Steve

....not to mention the magnets my kids put on have scratched the glossy black finish.

You don't have to plumb in the ice maker. It does not crush the ice. It makes blocks. There are two block trays that you fill with water and slide into position. Once frozen you just turn the dial and the ice drops into a holding draw below. The holding draw holds heaps of ice. We had a huge party and never ran out of ice. This is more efficient than the auto ice making ones and takes up far less room in your freezer. If you don't want heaps of ice blocks you can use the draw for other things and just use the ice out of the cube holder. I hope this helps you.

:) No plumbing. No crushing. No ice-maker. It does have nifty rotating ice cube trays which dump the ice into a small drawer in the freezer so you can have ice cubes ready and some more being frozen. The equivalent of 9 ice cube trays by the look of it.
Cheers!

As per the response from Mitsubishi, the doors don't close automatically. However, they do sound an alarm if left open too long or not properly closed. The door seals are very good on all four doors.

Hi there, my instruction book says that they do, but we have set the fridge up so that it is level so they they don't unfortunately. . I queried Harvey Norman where we bought it and they told me that if you have the front tilted slightly higher than the back, the doors will close automaticly. hope this helps.

At 90 degrees the drawer can be opened 70% ie you can put majority of things in & get them out. To remove drawer fully you need to open door wider maybe 140-150 degree ie for cleaning.

The right hand fruit drawer can be opened fully when door is at 90 degrees. It has a stop that stops it hitting the door..