Common fault
Why has my ice maker stopped making ice?
Short answer
Look at the cubes first, because ice makers fail in two directions and the repairs are opposites. Undersized, hollow or half-formed cubes mean the mold is not filling: a filter past its life, a restriction in the supply, or a fill tube partly iced. No ice at all, in a compartment that is still cold, means the harvest cycle is not running: the module, its thermostat or its motor. Solana Beach adds a third answer. Undercounter machines built into bar joinery often have their base grille closed off by a toe kick or a return panel, and a machine that cannot shed heat gives up half its output without one component failing.
County water carries plenty of mineral, and the ice machine is where a household meets it first. Deposit forms at the inlet valve and inside the fill tube, the volume arriving at the mold drops by a fraction each month, and the cubes get smaller across a season. Nothing about that feels like a fault, which is why so many of these machines are replaced while the real problem sits upstream in the plumbing. We time a fill and look into the mold instead of fitting a harvest module on spec, since a new module on a restricted supply produces cubes just as hollow as the ones you already have.
Airflow is the local variable. In a kitchen detailed so the appliance vanishes, the grille at the base of the machine tends to end up behind a continuous toe kick, a return panel or a stone waterfall added after the unit was chosen. The machine then breathes its own heat, runs longer for less ice, and looks from the front like a worn-out machine. If yours used to fill the bin overnight and now needs two days with nothing else changed, start with the coil and the clearance. Neither of those is a part, and neither shows up in a fault code.
A few observations narrow the visit before we arrive. Ice tasting or smelling wrong with normal production is a filter and bin question, not a mechanical one. A bin holding a single fused block means the harvest is working while the compartment cycles above zero, or the bin thermostat has failed. If the house was closed up and the water was off, mention it, because a valve left dry and then repressurized behaves in a way that is easy to misread. And if the honest complaint is that the bin cannot keep up when there are people over, that is a question about output rather than a fault, and it takes us to the water side and the condenser.
If that matches what your appliance is doing, say so when you call — it tells us which parts to bring, and most of these are finished in one visit.
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Appliance down in Solana Beach?
Tell us the brand and what it is doing — we can usually name the likely repair before we arrive.