How to Remove, Repair and Replace a Dometic RV Freezer Door and Save Money!

YES! You can remove, repair, and replace the broken internal freezer door on your single-door, 2-way, Dometic, Norcold or other similar Refrigerator Freezer in your RV, camper, trailer, caravan or boat. This video helps you avoid EXPENSIVE collateral damage and is thorough and easy.

This video is from 2021. See our latest Dometic Freezer Door Repair Video here:    • ULTIMATE Dometic Freezer Door DIY Repair 2025  

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IMPORTANT: We now recommend that you wind / tension your spring by only 1/4 turn. This is usually enough to close the door without putting too much stress on old plastic.

Why would you need to repair or replace your freezer door?

If your Dometic freezer door doesn't close all the way, it can be a real problem! Frozen food can thaw out. Delicate food in the refrigerator can freeze. And you use more propane or electricity to keep things cold.

How do you remove the door?

BE CAREFUL: wear eye and hand protection. There may be risks including sharp and flying parts.
BE GENTLE: older plastic gets brittle and fragile

To remove the inner freezer door:
1) Turn the fridge off and let the interior and parts warm up so they're more flexible.
2) Open the outer fridge door as wide as you can.
3) Open the inner freezer door.
4) Slide the Air Shim between the right edge of the freezer door and the wall of the fridge / freezer
5) Gently and slowly inflate the Air Shim to widen the gap between the freezer door and fridge wall. This exposes the nylon "bolt" at the bottom right of the freezer door.
7) Use the screwdriver to gently depress the bolt into the wall of the fridge. This disengages the bold from the receiver on the freezer door.
8) Pull the right bottom side of the freezer door gently towards you. The freezer door should now be free.
9) Remove the freezer hinge assembly from the left and right sides of the fridge wall.
IMPORTANT: the left and right hinge assemblies are different. Identify the left and right assemblies so you don't mix them up.

To replace a broken spring housing / casing:
1) Remove the bolt / spring from the broken casing.
2) Place the bolt / spring into the new casing. Make sure the protruding leg of the spring pokes through the slot in the base of the casing cylinder. The end of the bolt is pointed and will pop through the hole at the bottom of the well of the casing cylinder.

To replace the freezer door:
1) Place the left freezer hinge assembly back in the hole in the wall on the left side of the fridge.
2) Rotate the arm of the left freezer hinge assembly a QUARTER turn to about the 3 o'clock position.
3) Place the right freezer hinge assembly back in the hole in the wall on the right side of the fridge.
4) Rotate the arm of the right freezer hinge assembly a QUARTER turn to about the 9 o'clock position.
5) Angle the freezer door slightly downward (like you are about to open it).
6) Press the left edge of the freezer door firmly into the bolt and wiggle the freezer door slightly in the open-closed direction. You should hear and feel the bolt engage the receiver on the freezer door.
7) Using your finger or tool, depress the right hinge bolt firmly into the refrigerator wall.
8) Pivot right side of freezer door onto bolt and position / rotate until you feel and hear bolt engage with receiver.
9) Rotate arm of left freezer hinge assembly in the clockwise direction until the 12 o'clock position. The protrusion on arm engages small hole in the fridge wall
10) Rotate the arm of the right freezer hinge assembly in the counterclockwise direction until the 12 o'clock position. The protrusion on the arm engages the small hole in the fridge wall.
11) Test installation. Open the freezer door. Release. It should close on its own. Increase the pre-load on the spring if it does not close all the way.

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