Dont panic = yet, maby it isnt so bad. If I understand the workings of these things correctly = the fact that yours is working AT ALL indicates that nothing in the fridge itself = is really broken. Mine had a similar performance to yours before I tore it = apart last year. There was nothing really wrong in there that a good cleaning = didnt fix. I found the source of the troubles was a couple of dead roaches in = the combustion chamber. Lord knows how they got in there as the roaches were = larger than any opening to the chamber. That cleaning raised the performance = from lousy to tollerable. Reading the past reports from others here led me to = believe that this was pretty much it but some of the fixes I am reading here give me = high hopes.