How long to leave BEKO fridge freezer after delivery before turning it on?

Freebird53

Sounds simple doesn't it, " read the manual" i hear you cry! But..the manual says 4 hours, their website says 4 hours.....but the label on the plug on the fridge-freezer says 24 hours....

I rang BEKO, whose representative simply didn't know.

comeandgo

I got one delivered a few years ago and just did the 4 hours, it’s up to you.

RumRat

It's just to let the refrigerant settle, I only leave mine a couple of hours and have never had a problem. So, the 4 hours would be plenty.

forgotmyname

I used to tell customers at least 8 hours from delivery because sometimes I had no choice but to lay them flat.

I know plugging them in right after delivery kills them, delivered to a building site on the day the owner moved in.

Owner thought they were being helpful and unpacked and plugged it in.  Seems it made funny noises for
several minutes and then died. I don't know exactly how long it had been in the garage but it was more
like minutes rather than hours.

Personally I would leave it at least 8 hours, if you need to move food over from old to new make as many ice blocks
as you can. Even when new frozen food and plenty of ice packs should be safe for a fair few hours.

Abbafan1972

Funnily enough I had a Beko fridge freezer delivered yesterday and I was told by the delivery guy (Currys) 4 hours. 

I was able to put things in the fridge before turning it on as it acts as a cool box. Frozen stuff was round my Mom’s in her freezer, so DD collected it all last night. 

ballyblack

if it has been stored/transported upright........4 hrs

on its side I would leave it at least a day

IvanOpinion

I have always wondered if letting it stand really makes much of a difference. I have always done it except on one occasion.

My old fridge freezer had chosen a very inopportune time to self destruct (we were going on holiday the next day), so I headed out to anywhere that would be willing to provide one for me to take home immediately. I found a cheapish Hotpoint, manhandled it onto an old trailer I had borrowed and then made the 15 mile drive home (trailer bouncing about all over the place). It got manhandled into the garage (resulting in the door being dented), turned on immediately and everything moved from the old fridge/freezer to the new one.

That was 1996. I still have that old Hotpoint in the garage and it is still working fine (although it has a lot more dents). Maybe I was just lucky.

debitcardmayhem

I would imagine it's safe to switch on now

Freebird53

debitcardmayhem said:

I would imagine it's safe to switch on now

Thanks   I was rather busy unpacking and installing!

I duly left it the 4 hours. All appeared well. Except that a couple of days later, the high temp 'exclamation mark' light has begun coming on, and flashes alternately with the last 2 'compartment set temperature' lights.

It can be reset it would appear, by pressing the 'Quick Fridge' button, but has come back several times since.

I rang BEKO support, to clarify the meaning of the combination of flashing lights.

I had trouble understanding the first operator, who wasn't interested in the model number anyway, (which would surely be required to decipher the fault 'code') and who seemed quite aggressive, and decided to disconnect the call.

I tried ringing again. The second operator, after advising me that the 4 hour stand time was 'BARE MINIMUM LUV', simply advised me to set the unit to 'maximum power', as she asserted that the new digital fridges (it isn't digital, but she didn't ask for the model number either) read in centigrade, unlike the old knobs with 'just numbers on'.  What?

This 'information' directly confilcts with my own interpretation of the functioning of the control panel, and also confilcts with the information in the supplied manual.

At this point, realising that BEKO clearly have no techincal support, I disconnected the call, and will be looking to return said item forthwith.

This is the second faulty BEKO fridge-freezer i've had inside a month!

I've only persevered with BEKO, as our last unit lasted 10 years. Clearly things have changed at BEKO....

GDB2222

Electrolux here - bought in 1992, and still working fine.