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KitchenAid KSSC42FTS

Model # KSSC42FTS

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The KSSC42FTS belongs to KitchenAid’s US refrigerator catalogue. It was on KitchenAid’s US product site from April 2011 to June 2015 and gone after that. That places the machine inside that window: discontinued, and now getting on for fifteen years old. 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.

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 KSSC42FTS00, KSSC42FTS02, KSSC42FTS03, KSSC42FTS04, KSSC42FTS16, KSSC42FTS17. A plate reading one of those is still a KSSC42FTS; 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 KSSC42FTS 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 from April 2011 to June 2015
  • Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KSSC42FTS00, KSSC42FTS02, KSSC42FTS03, KSSC42FTS04, KSSC42FTS16, KSSC42FTS17
  • A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record

Most Common Issues on This Model

01

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

02

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

03

Sealed-system problems - a refrigerant leak or a restriction - the one fault worth weighing carefully against the value of the cabinet

04

A defrost cycle that has stopped running, so ice builds behind the freezer back panel until airflow chokes

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 KSSC42FTS FAQ

The KSSC42FTS plate is inside the refrigerator, on the left wall, in KitchenAid's own words. It is the adhesive label used across their major appliances, typically silver, and it carries both numbers. A photograph of the KSSC42FTS label is the most reliable thing you can send us.

It is discontinued, so parts availability is the question that decides everything else. We look up what can still be supplied for a KSSC42FTS 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, the fill valve, the fill tube and the ice maker module on a KSSC42FTS are checked in that order, because a fill tube frozen shut imitates a dead module exactly. The sealed system on a KSSC42FTS is very rarely the reason ice production stops.

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