Frigidaire FPEC3685KSA

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20121012-3B64B-2147462905. Matched catalog product: Frigidaire FPEC3685KSA. Source model text: FPEC3685KS. Incident: I have a Frididaire Electric cooktop. Last night I smelled smoke. A dish on left on the stove was burning. One of the burners was spontaneously on be itself. The only way to turn it off was to trip the circuit breaker for the appliance.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20161114-4513D-2147410786. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Matched catalog product: Frigidaire FPEC3685KSA. Source model text: Frigidaire 36 inch electric cooktop FPEC3685KSA. Incident: Regarding a Frigidaire FPEC3685KSA Cooktop installed in our kitchen. On Saturday, Nov 12, the cooktop was being used to boil water. It started making grinding noises, and smoke began pouring out of it from below. We shut off the burner control, and it continued to smoke, until the breaker was opened. The house was filled with electrical fire smoke. We will be replacing the unit and would like to provide this information for your trending purposes.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20160316-3E88D-2147420884. Matched catalog product: Frigidaire FPEC3685KSA. Incident: Our left burner on our cooktop suddenly came on. The knobs were all off. It would not turn off unless we switched the breaker to off.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20150330-3CC8E-1476587. Matched catalog product: Frigidaire FPEC3685KSA. Incident: (03/29/2015) The consumer stated that his wife had just finished cooking. All the dials were completely off. His wife noticed smoke coming from the bottom of the unit. The consumer went outside to turn the breaker off.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20140521-DD0F0-1404578. Matched catalog product: Frigidaire FPEC3685KSA. Incident: (05/20/20140 The consumer stated that she turned the cook top off after cooking dinner. There was an HE code on the control panel. The consumer stated that she didn't think anything of the code. She walked away. When she came back to clean the counters, she smelled a plastic burning smell. She realized that the element was still on. She turned the cook top it off at the breaker. When her husband home, he checked the element and discovered that it was doing the same thing.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20200203-89C78-1950790. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: Frigidaire FPEC3685KSA (Electric Range). Incident: Caller stated that she experienced similar problems of recall# 09-333.Hazard: Depending on the model, the surface heating elements can: 1) turn on spontaneously without being switched on; 2) fail to turn off after being switched off; or, 3) heat to different temperatures than selected. This poses a fire and burn hazard to consumers. Caller stated that she woke up and found that the unit was on she does not know how long it was on for, the control panel could not be used to power it off, the circuit breaker was used to switch off the unit. Caller stated that she switched on the breaker and the range came back on. The unit is currently switched off by the circuit breaker. She contacted the manufacturer and they advised her that her model was not included in the recall and that it was out of warranty. There were no prior incidents. Caller feels that her range should be included in a recall.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20240112-C471F-2147342831. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: Frigidaire fpec3685ksa (Frigidaire Professional 36" Electric Cooktop, black/stainless). Incident: I have reached-out to Frigidaire in the past. After many threats, they replaced the original cooktop (~$1,300.00), which was turning itself on and eventually caught fire. They chose NOT to collect the unit that turned itself on and caught fire. It cost me ~$400 to have a wider cut-out created in my quartz countertop to accommodate the replacement cooktop. The replacement then did the same thing; turned itself on and caught fire. Many more contacts ensued with Frigidaire telling me to contract for service and pay the bill, but they would give me 20% off of parts. I had the cooktop analyzed, informing Frigidaire the FMEA found: "The component potentiometers for your dual-burners have faulty, potentiometers with traces which, literally, corrode-away causing the dangerous failure in the performance of your cooktops" Frigidaire took no action, so I ordered parts and had the cooktop repaired. This cost me ~$700. Now the same thing has happened - this company KNOWS these units are catching fire, knows the burners turn themselves on "high," while unattended; this time a nearby towel went up in flames! My house has been filled with toxic fumes, four times, now. It is unacceptable that this company sells these dangerous units; declaring they have zero responsibility once the limited warranty period expires! I still have an >30 year old [REDACTED] cooktop installed in my home; it has never turned itself on nor caught fire...