Product review (5 stars): It fixed my Kenmore Refrigerator 25358672893
One Sunday morning I realized my milk was warmer than usual. After inspecting the 16 year old fridge, I found a wall of ice blocking the vents by the compressor in the freezer. We moved all the food to our back up unit that we use for drinks in the summer and let it defrost over night but within a week it was building up again. I talked to some friends about it and learned all about the auto defrost system in a few minutes. seriously, there is not much to it. Since I know how to test continuity with a multi-meter, I isolated the defrost timer, thermostat and heating element and found the thermostat to be the issue. You have to let it warm up to room temp a  and then freeze it again to activate the switch, but I had no continuity on only that part. So they don't seem to make the Kenmore part anymore, but this had the same specs. I just spliced, soldered and sealed the connectors from the old one onto this one and it fit right into place. The coils that do the cooling have not had any ice build up since. I fixed my fridge for under $20. You can't beat that.