Warning: a customer's old fridge in a Tucson apartment taught me to check the floor first
Last month I got a call for a fridge not cooling in a 1970s building. I spent an hour checking the compressor and condenser before I saw the floor was slanted. The unit was leaning back just enough to keep the door from sealing right. I leveled the feet and the temp dropped 15 degrees in twenty minutes. How many simple fixes do you guys miss because you jump straight to the big parts?
Wait, did you just say you check the big stuff first on purpose? I used to think that was backwards, like people were just guessing. But after fixing a dryer by leveling it myself, I get it now, big stuff being messed up messes everything else too lol.