riOt, I am sorry that the Viking works. It would be nice to replace it without guilt. I really use our Viking alot! We use it to bake home made pizza almost every weekend, bake bread etc. We baked bread and pizza last night and they were both yum.. The crust was fab! What I hate is the Viking range hood that I bought with the Viking range. The stupid thing is completely underpowered for the kind of cooking we do. I tried to replace the blower with the externally mounted one from another company and we flunked the noise ordinance. Alas, I can't swap out the hood without getting a new range due to matching color issues. We all make "appliance mistakes" in life. The replacement would cost me about $8000 to $10,000 after all is said and done with the custom made hood etc etc. (I want a custom made hood that really works!) That is a pretty large ticket item for me at this point. Try to enjoy the range while you have a holiday from the unreliability with the latest patch job.

It's possible that the gases venting from the oven are keeping the burners from igniting - this has been a problem on a number of ranges - on my DCS range they replaced the island trim so that the gases would vent at a slightly different angle. When you say the ignitors are dead, do they click and just not light or do they not click? Are you sure this is a new problem or just one you never noticed before? If the ignitors work when the oven is off and you can light them manually when the oven is on, I would just live with it.

We only rarely run the fan at above medium. We only do that when we are cooking something that is very smoky. That is why I'm trying to figure out if there is enough bang for the buck or if we should just leave it alone and save the expense and trouble. John

I beleive that the Vikings were using Thermistors at that time and they generally don't go bad. I believe that is a single compressor unit and it blows air from the freezer to the refrigerator which circulates back to the freezer. I don't remember it the Thermistor is in the freezer or refrigerator but I think it is in the refrigerator which means the refrigerator control is what controls the compressor cycling. The unit is designed to have your freezer right around Zero and the freezer control controls the airflow to the refrigerator.