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  1. I just wanted to say thank you sooo much Nick. I just got a Hotpoint fridge freezer from Curry's with exactly the squeaky click clack problem described here coming from the back of it. However my model isn't the same one as listed here, but a newer model. It's only been plugged in two days but this double squeaky clicking when the motor on was driving me nuts. I've had fridge freezers before (never a hotpoint tho) and don't mind the odd crack as the ice breaks, but not this odd noisy distracting clicking. Anyway, I tried everything - all the settings, levelling it etc. Felt like kicking it and screaming. After finding Nick's fix for his model, I looked at the back of my machine for the copper 'sausage' thing at the bottom left. In my case it was already horizontal, but I noticed the very slim copper wire joining it was in a very very tight zigzag - almost pinched looking at one 'zig' point. So, with great trepidation as I'd tried everything else, I turned off the appliance, unplugged it, and very very gently pulled the zig zag in the copper wire so the angles degrees weren't quite so sharp at the corners (very minimal adjustment really) - keeping the sausage shape as horizontal as I could (didn't touch the thick silver wire joined to the other side of the copper sausage). Without much hope I turned the appliance back on and waited for the motor to start and the dreaded clicking which usually started a minute or two after the motor. And blow me down. NO MORE CLICKS! It's been running happily for hours now without a squeaky click. Touch wood it's fixed! It would be quite easy for that small wire to have been knocked or squashed a bit in transit by the delivery men man-handling it into the house or in the factory as the part isn't protected much. But thank you Nick for giving me a hint for something to try. I couldn't find anything else with this exact noise I had with any fixes. And it was irratating the hell out of me.
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