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KitchenAid KSSP42QKS

Model # KSSP42QKS

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The KSSP42QKS is one of the KitchenAid refrigerators. It was on KitchenAid’s US product site from November 2001 to August 2003 and gone after that. That places the machine inside that window: discontinued, and now around a quarter of a century 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 KSSP42QKS00. A plate reading one of those is still a KSSP42QKS; the suffix identifies which production revision you have, and it occasionally decides which version of a part fits. At this age the work on a KSSP42QKS 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

  • No published specification for this model was recovered
  • Recorded on KitchenAid's US product site from November 2001 to August 2003
  • Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KSSP42QKS00
  • A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record

Most Common Issues on This Model

01

An ice maker that fills but will not eject, or a bin that has frozen into one solid block

02

Lighting and door-switch problems, worth ruling out before anything is assumed about the cooling side

03

Cracked door bins and shelf trim, ordinary wear on a cabinet of this age

04

A door seal gone stiff, letting warm room air track in along one edge

Error Codes Common to This Model

Over Temp

KitchenAid Undercounter Wine Cellar Over Temp Alert

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

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FAQ

KitchenAid KSSP42QKS FAQ

The KSSP42QKS 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 KSSP42QKS label is the most reliable thing you can send us.

The KSSP42QKS is discontinued, but age alone does not decide it. Most of what fails on a KSSP42QKS is a wear component priced in tens of dollars rather than hundreds, and those repairs stay worthwhile. The exception is the sealed system, where the cost sits close to what the cabinet is worth, and we check the parts position before quoting either way.

With the refrigerator switched off at its supply, the fill valve, the fill tube and the ice maker module on a KSSP42QKS are checked in that order, because a fill tube frozen shut imitates a dead module exactly. The sealed system on a KSSP42QKS is very rarely the reason ice production stops.

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