20 Most Recent GE 106591 Coffee Maker - Page 5 Questions & Answers

TAKE IT BACK

There's a little known thing called a "warranty", and if you take it back to the store, you can get another one FOR FREE!! or your money back - You get to choose...imagine that??

it's broken

It's probably time for a good cleaning. Follow the procedure in the manual, or get some commercially available coffee maker cleaner. When the minerals build up enough, the water flow and heating is reduced enough to keep it all from passing through.

Please take a moment to rate this solution if it's what you needed, and thanks for asking here!

You can download the manual here:

http://www.gehousewares.com/products/169108%20IM--english_1180727657981.pdf

Thanks for asking here. If this solution is what you needed, please take a moment to rate it.

Here's a link o the manual for you to download:

http://www.gehousewares.com/products/840077300_1068232747014.pdf

Please take a moment to rate this answer if it's what you needed. Thanks for asking here!

You could replace the part but you might want to try a better brand like Krups or Braun
If you have a sentimental need to keep it you could have the thermostat and hot plate replaced

eric

try better Quality coffee

Green lady is the best non acidic coffee around.
follow this link
http://www.hempusa.org/index.php?cPath=5&osCsid=35a856d8ef2872ad49f91c0180bf888d

Try this to order your needs
Please don’t forget to rate me
eric

try this link
It's the same model you gave me
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=9447213

eric

A couple of people on here mentioned he filtration system, or charcoal filter that is in the
water resovoir as being problematic. We removed it. This morning the pot brewed entirely.
Not sure how that all is inter-connected, but it worked.

Most failures of coffee makers are related to thermal fuses which have opened and interrupted the current flow to the heating element.
Often, they failed for no particular reason but replacing the fuses would probably cost as much as tossing the whole machine.

Yeah, I know, I don't like it either.
Before retirement, I earned my living fixing stuff we can now buy cheaper new.

Mr Coffee p/n PLD13 is an exact fit replacemnt for the GE 169165 in white

Go to the GE website and look for parts for that nit. You may also try SearsPartsDirect.com.

# 4 coffee filters made by militta. I have the same maker and i hate all the coffee grinds in the pot

You can view the user's manual for your model by following this link:

http://www.fixya.com/support/p126850-ge_106591_coffee_maker

Old message, you probably have had a few machines more by now.
If bnot, take it back; the bimetal thermal switch that is responsible for cycling the machine is 'bad.' Actually, it's Chinese and they haven't quite figured out how to make these reliable.
This type of switch has been around for 3/4 century and those made in the US were only used for protection and cycled only to prevent fire in some equipment. Because they are a sandwich of two metals, they flex to switch when their design temperature is reached. Just because of metal fatigue, they really aren't intended to switch off and on several times a minute as they must in a drip coffee maker. 

If it failed after working a short while, the thermal fuse used in all drip coffee makers is frequently failing and we have had exactly the same experience with another brand. Our toxic Chinese friends are making crappy thermal fuses along with about everything else. 

Replacing these is impractical since they are in a small metal case, pointed on one end with two coaxial leads permanently attached. Further, they are welded  to wiring under the warming plate to the heating element. The area is too hot for solder and ceramic wire nuts have to be used to replace the fuse and these are tough to find anymore. 
Bypassing them is a really bad idea since I know of one case where the thermal switch that causes the machine to cycle, failed, the heating element melted through the aluminum plate on the bottom and set fire to a kitchen counter. 
With the cost of labor being what it is, hardly any of these drip coffee makers are worth repairing. 

If you look at the bottom, you'll probably find 'China' on it.
The problem you are having normally doesn't show up for a couple of months after the lime has had a chance to roughen the ball in the check valve that makes up the pump. Your pump isn't pumping.
I suspect you have some particulate matter that has made its way to the primitive check valve and the ball is not moving freely as it should. The copious amount of steam you are getting is from the bit of water that makes it to the heating element before the (yet to fail) thermal switch that cycles the heater element.
If you have a clean turkey baster, you may be able to flush whatever crud there is in the water path through to the outlet over the coffee basket by sticking the tip into the water chamber's exit hole. We have a large veterinarian's hypodermic that does the job nicely when it is time to flush it again and soaking the water path with vinegar every few weeks overnight will help keep it pumping properly too.
If the flushing doesn't work, take it back before GE gets completely out of the appliance business.
(Whatever happened to Silex??)  

If they have failed after working a short while, the thermal fuse used in all drip coffee makers is failing and we have had exactly the same experience with another brand. Our toxic Chinese friends are making crappy thermal fuses along with about everything else. 

Replacing these is impractical since they are in a small metal case, pointed on one end with two coaxial leads permanently attached. Further, they are welded  to wiring under the warming plate to the heating element. The area is too hot for solder and ceramic wire nuts have to be used to replace the fuse and these are tough to find anymore.
Bypassing them is a really bad idea since I know of one case where the thermal switch that causes the machine to cycle failed, the heating element melted through the aluminum plate on the bottom and set fire to a kitchen counter.
With the cost of labor being what it is, hardly any of these drip coffee makers are worth repairing.