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KitchenAid KRFC400ESS

Model # KRFC400ESS

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The KRFC400ESS belongs to KitchenAid’s US refrigerator catalogue. It appears on KitchenAid’s US product site in September 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. What survives is the model number and a dated record of when KitchenAid was showing it, and that is what is set out here.

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 KRFC400ESS 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 September 2015
  • A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record
  • KitchenAid published an installation dimension guide for it

Most Common Issues on This Model

01

Evaporator fan bearing wear, ending in a fan that will not start from cold

02

Condenser coils choked with dust and pet hair, making the compressor run longer and hotter than it was meant to

03

Sagging doors and worn hinge cams, which stop the seal meeting the cabinet squarely

04

Drain blockage at the back of the freezer floor - a routine clear rather than a sealed-system job

Error Codes Common to This Model

F8 E3

KitchenAid French Door Refrigerator F8 E3 Error Code

F8 E8

KitchenAid French Door Refrigerator F8 E8 Error Code

F8 EC

KitchenAid French Door Refrigerator F8 EC Error Code

H2O Light

KitchenAid Refrigerator H2O Filter Status Light

CL or LO

KitchenAid Undercounter Beverage Center CL or LO Error Code

E1

KitchenAid Undercounter Refrigerator, Wine Cellar and Beverage Center E1 Error Code

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FAQ

KitchenAid KRFC400ESS FAQ

Inside the refrigerator, on the left wall is where KitchenAid says the label is, and that holds for the KRFC400ESS. The adhesive label there gives model and serial. Copying the KRFC400ESS string character by character is worth the extra minute, since one letter separates several different cabinets.

It is discontinued, so parts availability is the question that decides everything else. We look up what can still be supplied for a KRFC400ESS at the outset, and if the part that has failed cannot be had we say so plainly instead of charging for a diagnosis that leads nowhere.

With the refrigerator switched off at its supply, leaving the KRFC400ESS propped open to the air is sensible if it is no longer holding temperature, because a closed cabinet that is not cooling grows mould quickly. Food safety comes first on a KRFC400ESS as on anything else, and anything that has sat above a safe temperature for hours should go in the bin.

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