Viking Upper too cold: a wine column compartment is too cold
Upper too cold and Lower too cold are the Viking 7 Series column messages for a compartment below its range.
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- Temperature and alarms
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What Upper too cold
actually means.
Upper too cold and Lower too cold are the Viking 7 Series column messages for a compartment below its range. Viking asks you to wait 12 hours; if the message is still there, the column needs service.
Viking wine cooler display · also shown as Lower too cold
What to do when Upper too cold shows on the wine coolerKind of codeTemperature and alarms
The cooler read a zone well away from its setting and raised an alarm, sometimes showing the warmest figure it reached while the house was empty. The reason may be as small as a door left resting on a bottle neck or a long outage, or as serious as cooling that has stopped. Keep the glass door shut and feel a bottle in the middle of the rack before doing anything else; the alarm is a warning about the wine, not a diagnosis.
Usually leads toWine cooler thermostat and sensor repair
Testing and replacing the thermostat or the temperature sensors that tell a wine cooler when to cool, when the cabinet runs too cold, too warm or back and forth.
Shows up asWine Cooler Error Code
A wine cooler error code appears as letters and digits on the display, a flashing temperature, dashes where a number should be or a blinking symbol, sometimes with an alarm tone and sometimes while the cabinet stays perfectly cool.
MakeViking
Viking wine coolers serviced where they stand, when the cabinet warms up, stays dark or keeps cycling.
SourceViking FDWCIC7240 user guide (7 Series integrated wine column)
Viking 7 Series integrated wine columns FDWCIC7240 and FDWCIC7300, with the touch display. Messages appear when you touch ALARM; the INFO button holds a message on screen for 30 seconds. Viking’s table repeats the description “Upper compartment too warm” on the Upper too cold row, an apparent misprint.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Viking's own guidance for Upper too cold on its wine coolers. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Check the setting for that compartment.
Wait 12 hours, as Viking suggests, and check again.
If the message persists, move bottles that are getting too cold and book a visit.
Still there?
It usually turns into wine cooler thermostat and sensor repair. Book with the code and the model number.
What not to do
Upper too cold is not a door alarm and not a power problem. A compartment that has warmed shows the too warm message instead.
What you may
notice with it.
The wine cooler problems Upper too cold tends to arrive with. Answer these at the wine cooler before anyone is booked.
All problems
Where Upper too cold usually leads
Wine cooler thermostat and sensor repair.
Viking
wine coolers.
Viking wine coolers serviced where they stand, when the cabinet warms up, stays dark or keeps cycling.
Viking wine cooler repairMore Viking codes
Temperature and alarms on other makes
Undercounter wine cooler
A wine cooler about the height of a base cabinet, built in under the counter of a kitchen, a bar or a butler's pantry, with a glass door, sliding racks and a vented toe grille at the floor.
Wine column
A full-height built-in wine cabinet, 18 to 30 inches wide, set flush into tall cabinetry or paired with a matching column, with a glass or panel door and dozens to well over a hundred bottles inside.
Dual-zone wine cooler
A wine cooler with two separately set compartments, upper and lower or side by side, so reds and whites or a storage zone and a serving zone each keep their own temperature.
In Viking's own words
Lower compartment too cold
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Viking 7 Series integrated wine columns FDWCIC7240 and FDWCIC7300, with the touch display. Messages appear when you touch ALARM; the INFO button holds a message on screen for 30 seconds. Viking’s table repeats the description “Upper compartment too warm” on the Upper too cold row, an apparent misprint.
Viking Upper too cold wine cooler repair,
where we come out.
The same visit in every metro below: the code, the model number, and a diagnosis before any part is ordered.
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Questions
about Upper too cold.
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Back to your everyday
Still showing Upper too cold?
When you book, copy the code or the blink pattern as the display shows it, add the whole model number, and say whether the bottles still feel cool — a code gives the technician a head start.