The KSSS42MDX03 is a US-market KitchenAid refrigerator, recorded by its source as a 42″ built-in side-by-side refrigerator in the Superba series. KitchenAid’s own US product site was showing it in January 2000, and no later listing for it was recovered. That makes it a long-discontinued cabinet, 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.
KSSS42MDX03 is published here exactly as KitchenAid printed it, with the two-digit production-revision code on the end. The bare base KSSS42MDX was never itself observed in any source, so it is not offered as a model number — the form on your rating plate will be the full KSSS42MDX03 string. At this age the work on a KSSS42MDX03 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
- 42" built-in side-by-side refrigerator
- KitchenAid Superba series
- Built-in cabinet, made to sit flush with surrounding joinery
- Recorded on KitchenAid's US product site in January 2000
- Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KSSS42MDX04, KSSS42MDX05
- A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record
Most Common Issues on This Model
A control reading the cabinet wrongly, so the compressor runs far longer or far shorter than it should
Water inlet valve or supply line leaks, where a water feed is plumbed in
A start device that has failed, so the compressor hums briefly and drops out on overload
A control board aged out of service, the part most worth checking availability on first