The KBWS19KCBL belongs to KitchenAid’s US refrigerator catalogue. It appears on KitchenAid’s US product site in April 2015 and nowhere after that. That dates the machine to around then: discontinued, and now about a decade into service. No published specification for this model was recovered. Rather than fill the gap with a figure borrowed from a similar-looking number, this page says only what the sources actually carry.
KitchenAid appends a two-digit production-revision code to the base number on the rating plate, and the codes actually observed for this model are KBWS19KCBL00. A plate reading one of those is still a KBWS19KCBL; the suffix identifies which production revision you have, and it occasionally decides which version of a part fits. A cabinet of this vintage is past the point where the door seal, the evaporator fan and the defrost components are as-new, and those account for most of what a KBWS19KCBL is called out for. Since the model is discontinued, we settle what can still be supplied for it before the work is quoted.
Key Features
- No published specification for this model was recovered
- Recorded on KitchenAid's US product site in April 2015
- Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KBWS19KCBL00
- A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record
Most Common Issues on This Model
Ice production tailing off - usually the fill valve, a fill tube frozen shut, or the module itself
Door switch and interior lighting faults, including a lamp that stays lit with the door shut
Broken crisper runners and door bin lugs - cosmetic, but worth sourcing while parts last
Perished door gasket, showing as condensation round the door frame and a compressor that rarely stops