KitchenAid sold the KSFS20QEAL as part of its US refrigerator range, recorded by its source as a flush-mount side-by-side refrigerator of 19.7 cu. ft. It appears on KitchenAid’s US product site in March 2000 and nowhere after that. That dates the machine to around then: discontinued, and now around a quarter of a century old. Nothing beyond what that source states is claimed here, and no figure has been carried across from a neighbouring model number.
KSFS20QEAL is one of the colour and finish numbers KitchenAid printed on the same archived product page as KSFS20QE. If the plate in your kitchen reads KSFS20QEAL, this is the right page; if it reads KSFS20QE or one of its siblings (KSFS20QEBL, KSFS20QEWH), the machine underneath is the same cabinet in a different finish. At this age the work on a KSFS20QEAL is mostly mechanical and electrical rather than electronic — seals, fans, defrost components, switches and the start device. Those are the parts still in circulation for cabinets of this generation, and they are what we check availability on before any figure is put on a repair.
Key Features
- Flush-mount side-by-side refrigerator
- 19.7 cu. ft. capacity
- KitchenAid Superba series
- Recorded on KitchenAid's US product site in March 2000
- Printed by KitchenAid as a colour or finish variant of KSFS20QE
Most Common Issues on This Model
Drain blockage at the back of the freezer floor - a routine clear rather than a sealed-system job
Sealed-system problems - a refrigerant leak or a restriction - the one fault worth weighing carefully against the value of the cabinet
A defrost cycle that has stopped running, so ice builds behind the freezer back panel until airflow chokes
Ice production tailing off - usually the fill valve, a fill tube frozen shut, or the module itself