Oven Self Clean Door Lock

The door locks when the oven is hot and should unlock when the oven is cool.

Oven self clean door lock.

As a safety precaution virtually all self cleaning ovens have a door locking mechanism that automatically secures the door whenever the cleaning function is activated. The door lock is a safety feature to prevent burns. You should first remove the power to the oven for a few moments and then reconnect. Unplug the oven for 5 minutes and then plug it back in to reset the computer.

Some modern whirlpool ovens feature a child safety control lock that deactivates all oven controls and locks the door. Clearing a locked message 1. Remove the burner grates and lift the hinged oven top. If your oven door is locked open press and hold down the light switch while you continue to work through the process of cancelling the lock on the door.

Push it in until the oven cavity light goes off indicating that the oven believes the door is closed. Wait at least 20 seconds before you cancel the self clean setting on the oven. Push the door jamb. Sometimes they can get gummed up from food or dust particles and they will no longer lock.

Hold the oven door tightly closed and try to slide the lock back. While you hold the door jamb switch in this position complete the following steps. Slide the oven away from the wall and disconnect the electrical cord from the power outlet. When this happens your oven will not clean anymore until you have restored the lock.

Use the bracing rod to hold the top open. We receive many calls for oven repair after a self clean cycle. In high heat models the self clean cycle is usually initiated by closing the oven door and setting the oven to a. The self clean cycle of a steam based model is usually initiated by pouring roughly one cup of distilled water into a.

Open the door and locate the door jamb and locking mechanism. Set the oven to self clean program your frigidaire oven to self clean. When the cycle initiates press the clear off or cancel pad immediately to cancel it. If the door will not unlock at the end of the clean cycle then you may have a problem the door lock motor assembly.

Video of the day volume 0. Sometimes the oven door is opening and. We typically see an issue where the door won t unlock when a user has attempted a self clean cycle on their oven especially when the self clean feature is canceled before it is complete. This may reset the control and allow you to unlock the door.

Press the clean pad wait 10 seconds.