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title: "Freezer display showing two dashes"
description: "Liebherr freezer display showing two dashes — not an error. The freezer temperature display only shows temperatures below freezing, so two dashes mean the…"
url: "https://liebherrmiami.support/symptoms/display-showing-two-dashes/"
date_modified: "2026-08-27"
Appliance type: "Freezers"
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# Liebherr freezer display showing two dashes

### The fastest diagnosis is what the appliance is telling you

Wait. From a cold start the maker allows three to five hours depending on the room, and the same applies after a power failure. If it still shows dashes the next morning, then something is genuinely wrong and it is worth a call.

### A display doing what it was designed to do

Liebherr states it plainly: the freezer temperature display will only show temperatures that are below freezing, it will take three to five hours depending on ambient conditions for freezing temperatures to be achieved and thus displayed numerically, and this may also occur after a power failure. Three sentences that save a service call.

It has just been switched on

Documented behavior. Three to five hours to reach freezing, longer in a warm room.

It is recovering from a power failure

The same thing for the same reason.

It is genuinely not reaching temperature

If dashes persist well beyond that window, everything on the "freezer not cold enough" page applies.

Note the time it was switched on

Three to five hours is the published window.

Check the room temperature

A hot garage or a closed kitchen in August lengthens it.

Check it is not standing open

Obvious and worth saying.

It is above freezing, and it is saying so

What it usually means

Dashes instead of a number

Right after switching on

Right after a power failure

The fastest diagnosis is what the appliance is telling you

Wait. From a cold start the maker allows three to five hours depending on the room, and the same applies after a power failure. If it still shows dashes the next morning, then something is genuinely wrong and it is worth a call.

A display doing what it was designed to do

Liebherr states it plainly: the freezer temperature display will only show temperatures that are below freezing, it will take three to five hours depending on ambient conditions for freezing temperatures to be achieved and thus displayed numerically, and this may also occur after a power failure. Three sentences that save a service call.

### Is it broken?

Almost certainly not, and this is one of the few appliance questions with a documented answer. The display is built to show below-freezing temperatures only. Dashes are not an error message; they are the display saying the number would be above its range.

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