We bought a Frigidaire side by side (stainless steel) for our new house. This one makes a noise that can best be described as muffled jack hammer. Sometime it runs quiet also (relatively speaking). I noticed that when it kicks in the fan runs at high speed (making the jack hammer noise) for about 5 minutes or so and then it becomes progressively quieter. But there is no telling when it would switch into this noisy mode. We called service and the guy said it is quite normal as it cycles through different fan speeds. It doesn't sound normal at all to my ears sitting 15 feet away trying to watch TV in family room. Because the purchase was made one month before home closing and the delivery was made after move in, I cannot trade this for anything else now. What are my options? Keep bugging the warranty service people until they do something or are there any after market stuff I can use to quiten the noise. If it is really variable fan speed that is responsible for this I would like to find a way to disable the highest fan speeds. Is this possible?
thanks SS