Thermador oven (c301u) door hinges weak, how to install new hinge
Door light comes on. THe hinges appear to have weakened. Need to know how to replace the hinges. What is involved?
Ovens - Thermador - C301U Electric Single Oven
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This is a relatively easy fix however you will need to remove the door and it is heavy!
Start by opening the door completely and engage the small "locks" that are at the base of the hinge. This will ensure that the spring loaded hinges do not "spring open" when you remove the door. You then will need to remove the hinges from the door via a series of phillips head screws that hold the hinge assembly in place. The new hinges must be "preloaded" into the Open position using a vise or some means of holding the hinge in place while you use a small section of pipe to provide leverage needed to open the hinge so that the Locks can be engaged.
Once the new hinges are "pre-loaded" and the locks are engaged, you can reverse the procedure to re-install the hinges into the door and re-install the door.
Good luck!!
The hinges are commercially avaialble from Applianceparts.com
There is no way to pre-load a closed-spring system. There are no adjustment points, no shims and no other means to adjust the fairly hi-powered spring in these Thermador oven hinges. You are better off buying the replacement hinge assemblies online and replacing them yourself. As of December 2010, I've seen them online for about $25 each. A DIY person can manage the replacement.
I have a C301US wall oven. In order to remove the hinges I had to unload (disengage the brass clip) the old ones in order to remove them. On the re-install, I had to put them in untensioned. I used the end of an aluminum lacrosse stick as a lever to move the hinge arm into position so that I could snap in the brass clips prior to putting it back on the oven.