The short answer
On the ABMP roster the shape of the ice is the diagnosis. Hollow or undersized cubes point at water volume, cloudy or slow cubes point at freezer temperature, and no cubes at all points at supply or at the shut-off arm. The roster covers one base number, ABMP171E, carried twice in the parts data.
The observable signs
- A thin sheet of ice under the bin — Water is entering when it should not, or the fill tube is dribbling after the valve closes. It tends to arrive with a leak complaint as well.
- Ice production started falling after a filter change — Restriction or air in the line. The filter path is upstream of everything and is worth ruling out early.
- NEAR MISS - water pooling on the floor as well as no ice — A supply-line leak presents as both at once. The water-leak page for this family covers it.
Likely causes in order
- Shut-off arm or bin sensor reading full — Top of the list because it costs nothing to check and because it is the commonest thing found on cabinets of this type. Lower the arm, clear the bin, wipe the sensor windows and give it a full cycle before going further.
- Freezer compartment running too warm to make ice — Ranked high on this roster because the ice maker is gated on compartment temperature: it will not run a harvest until the mould is cold enough. That makes a marginal freezer a silent ice fault.
- Fill tube frozen or ice bridged in the mould — Water dribbling after the valve closes freezes in the fill tube, and the next fill backs up. The result is a mould that never fills properly and a sheet of ice under the bin.
- Ice maker module, motor or thermostat failed — At the bottom because the only pattern that genuinely points here is a mould that fills correctly, freezes correctly and then never harvests, with temperature and supply both confirmed good.
- Body: This order puts the ice maker module itself in the middle rather than at the top. It does fail, but it is asked to fail far more often than it does, and everything above it on this list is cheaper to rule out.
Check in this order, and why
- Look at the shape of the cubes being made — Hollow and small means short fill; cloudy and fused means slow freeze. The shape sorts the water branch from the temperature branch.
- Confirm the cabinet has a factory ice maker at all — Some listings on a roster like this ship without one, and a hookup kit fitted later behaves differently from a factory installation.
- Count how long a cycle takes against how long it used to — A cycle that is slower rather than absent points at freeze time, and therefore at temperature rather than water.
- Body: Every step here is cheaper than the one after it. On the ABMP roster the bin and the thermometer between them close most calls, and neither needs a tool.
Before you open anything
Safety
Unplug the appliance or switch off its breaker before removing the ice maker or any freezer panel; a capacitor can hold a charge after the power is off. Wear gloves: the mould edges and the evaporator fins behind the rear liner are both sharper than they look, and never chip at bridged ice with a screwdriver.
Models in the ABMP family — Every listing this page generalizes over. Check the number on your rating plate against it before ordering a part. A starred entry in the table is the same base number recorded a second way in the parts data; treat it as the same platform for this fault unless your own parts diagram says otherwise.
Reference| Model number | Family key |
|---|---|
| ABMP171E | arctic-wind:refrigerator:abmp |
| ABMP171E* | arctic-wind:refrigerator:abmp |
Where the owner line is
Call when the checks above are clean and the cabinet still makes no ice, because on the ABMP roster the next step is either a pressurised fitting or the module itself. Call sooner if you find water where it should not be, and close the supply valve before you make the call.
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