Product
GE Appliances GTD84ECPN1DG
Category
Kitchen Appliance
Report number
20240221-DA17C-2147340856
Ownership age
About 39 months to failure (from purchase date when reported)
Failure type
Fire / ignition
Incident narrative
SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20240221-DA17C-2147340856. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: GE Appliances GTD84ECPN1DG (GE Dryer M# GTD84ECPN1DG). Incident: This has been on ongoing issue that has needed to be repaired 4 times and is a fire risk. This is on my GE dryer, it first occurred within the warranty period of 12 months and most recently this past Sunday. The wire for the heating element is either not a heavy enough gauge or the connection is not sufficient enough to handle the current load. Over time, the wire deteriorates causing an increase of resistance until the wire sheathing melts along with the copper stranded wire and the solder-less crimp connector. At this point I can find bits of once molten copper on the bottom of my dryer along with lint which is the cause for my fire concern. I recently asked a GE certified repair person about this and he said that there has been no correction to this and that he carries a baggie with dozens of spade connector with him for the sole purpose of repairing these GE dryers.
Official report number: 20240221-DA17C-2147340856. Search that ID on SaferProducts.gov or match it in the CPSC public database export to verify this record.