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This happened to my parents' fridge a number of years ago (it was a Frigidaire unit.)

Because it is a Sears unit, we literally hauled it to Sears and little did we know, we found out the hard way that it was cheaper to buy a new fridge because the cost of the replacement part was new old stock and the refrigerant was going to cost just as much so we just said fuck it. The manager there even gave us a form to fill out to get a rebate and a 5% off coupon to buy a new fridge at Sears so in the end, it was win/win, except for having to haul the fucking thing there in the first place. The cherry on top? The new fridges were much more energy efficient than the electrical vampire our old fridge was.