What this family is
The 4w5j90 family covers a long revision run of ten models. They are one platform rather than a catalogue, which is what makes a shared fault list mean anything. Temperature is the class that dominates, and it drags the leak and the ice complaints along with it more often than not.
What owners actually report
- Runs but will not hold temperature — The cabinet hums all day and never gets cold, or one compartment holds while the other drifts. Covered on the cooling page.
- Water under the drawers or on the floor — Water that arrives in slugs is the drain or the fill; water that seeps all day is plumbing. Covered on the water-leak page.
- The ice maker has stopped filling the bucket — Thin cubes mean a short fill; a full mould that never ejects means the harvest. Covered on the ice-maker page.
- A noise the cabinet did not used to make — A tick, a drone or a knock that was not there before, and that gets blamed on the compressor. Covered on the noise page.
The classes in order
- Cooling — Leads here. It pulls the other three along behind it.
- Water — Next. The drain path first, the pressurised joints second.
- Ice — Next. Water reaching the mould explains most of these before any part does.
- Noise — Least common. Fans, fasteners and feet, plus normal cycle noise read as a fault.
The 4w5j90 family, model by model
Reference| Model number | Family key |
|---|---|
| 4w5j90-07 | amana:refrigerator:4w5j90 |
| 4w5j90-08 | amana:refrigerator:4w5j90 |
| 4w5j90-09 | amana:refrigerator:4w5j90 |
| 4w5j90-10 | amana:refrigerator:4w5j90 |
| 4w5j90-11 | amana:refrigerator:4w5j90 |
| 4w5j90-12 | amana:refrigerator:4w5j90 |
| 4w5j90-13 | amana:refrigerator:4w5j90 |
| 4w5j90-14 | amana:refrigerator:4w5j90 |
| 4w5j90-15 | amana:refrigerator:4w5j90 |
| 4w5j90-16 | amana:refrigerator:4w5j90 |
The shape of the fault list — No snapshot carries a component share here, so the column is a position rather than a share and no denominator is printed.
General guidance| Problem class | Position on this family |
|---|---|
| Runs but will not hold temperature | Leading class |
| Water under the drawers or on the floor | Second |
| The ice maker has stopped filling the bucket | Third |
| A noise the cabinet did not used to make | Least common |
Before any panel comes off
Safety
Unplug the appliance or switch off its breaker before removing any panel; a capacitor can hold a charge after the power is off.
Owner work and service work
Anything reachable without a panel — coil, feet, drain, shutoff arm, filter — is owner work on these models.
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