Amana 25 cu. ft. French Door Refrigerator, AFD2535DE

by Amana

Product Features

• 24.8 Cu. Ft. Total Capacity
• Rated a "Best Buy" By a Leading Consumer Magazine
• Temp Assure Freshness Controls
• EasyFill Internal Filtered Water Dispenser
• SofSound Quiet Package

Product Details

Use and Care Instructions [1.66mb PDF]

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Warranty Details [129kb PDF]

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Dimension Guide [80kb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 34.4 x 35.6 x 69.9 inches ; 350 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 350 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000HJKMIY
• Item model number: AFD2535FES
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #289,099 in Appliances (See Top 100 in Appliances)

Product Description

Color Name: Stainless Steel

From the Manufacturer

Get fresh-tasting water and ice from the EasyFill internal water dispenser with a PUR water and ice filter as well as a factory-installed icemaker. The French door design makes it easy to access the fresh food that you use most often.

Product Description

The Amana AFD2535DE 25 cu ft Bottom Mount 3-Door Refrigerator is sure to turn heads in your kitchen The fresh food you use most is right at eye level and the French Door design combines a bottom freezer with twin refrigerator doors offering style and...

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

65 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice product, but a few problems., October 10, 2006

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Mike Brezsnyak (Northampton, MA USA) - See all my reviews

We saw the Amana French-door bottom-freezer fridge about a year ago and fell in love with it. As it turns out, we have had a fairly mixed experience with it.

I'll say that there are quite a few things that we like about it. Overall, we like the layout and flexibility of this fridge a lot. All of the shelves are adjustable to allow for customizing the space for what we need. The layout makes the fridge feel bigger than the other 25 CF fridges we've used or looked at. The quality of the ice maker and water filtration is nice. I do find the bottom-freezer a nice feature for our family. The best feature of the French-doors for us is that they don't swing open as wide as conventional doors, which is good for energy usage and for not blocking passage through our tight kitchen. They're also convenient when you have to grab something quick out of the door.

That said, after using it a while, there are a few things that we don't like about this fridge:
1) After a few months of use, it started getting kind of loud. As it turns out, this was the sound of the cooling fan dying. When it finally died, we had no cold air in the fridge compartment. It was still under warranty, but I wasn't happy about replacing the fan after only about 7 months. (It's still occasionally louder than I'd prefer, but most of the time it is OK.)
2) The water filter dispenser is on the inside of the fridge compartment rather than on the outside of the unit. Combined with the fact that its flow is a little on the slow side, it seems to me that a lot of energy is wasted each time I have to leave the door open for 30 seconds to get a glass of water.
3) The top cover of the Chef's Pantry drawer is not the highest quality component. It pops off once every two weeks or so for me (though, in fairness, my wife doesn't report this problem, so it might just be me). It's easy to put back on, but something I don't feel that I should have to worry about with a $1600 fridge.

Overall, we probably would buy the same fridge again. I'd probably pass on the water filtration option until they figure out a way to get access from the outside of the fridge. I'd probably also want to make sure to get the extended warranty.

45 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Be Forewarned, June 13, 2007

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Jayro "Jay" (KC, MO) - See all my reviews

I've had this unit for almost exactly two years and am disappointed in its performance. You have to open the French doors to get to the water dispenser. I think this feature wastes energy and creates the potential for problems. I found this review page because I was checking to see if there were recalls on this model. In two years, I have replaced the fan that delivers cool air from the freezer to the refrigerator twice. Stay away from this model.

43 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor quality, bad warratee, December 24, 2006

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Bob Dillon (Basking Ridge, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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We have owned this fridge for less than 2 years and it recently broke down. We lost all the contents of the fridge ($100's) and the repair cost us over $200. The problem was the evaporator fan. I read the warrantee and it claimed to cover the evaporator. When I called Amana to get the repair covered they told me that they only cover the evaporator coil, not the fan. The manual and warrantee document did not make this distinction. Even so, this is not an inexpensive fridge and it should go more than 2 years without breaking down. Shame on Amana for not standing behind this product and shame on Amana for hiding behind shades of warrantee language.

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