KitchenAid Refrigerator

KitchenAid KBBL206EPA

Model # KBBL206EPA

The KBBL206EPA is a KitchenAid refrigerator. It was on KitchenAid’s US product site from March 2015 to September 2015 and gone after that. That places the machine inside that window: discontinued, and now about a decade into service. No published specification for this model was recovered — no capacity, no width, no feature list — so none is stated here, and no figure has been taken from a neighbouring model number.

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 KBBL206EPA00. A plate reading one of those is still a KBBL206EPA; 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 KBBL206EPA 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 March 2015 to September 2015
  • Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KBBL206EPA00
  • 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

Door gasket hardened with age, so the seal no longer pulls the door tight against the cabinet

02

Temperature sensing wandered out of calibration with age, giving a cabinet that never settles

03

Water supply faults - valve, line or filter housing - on machines plumbed for water

04

Compressor start relay and overload faults, heard as a click every few minutes with no cooling following it

Error Codes Common to This Model

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FAQ

KitchenAid KBBL206EPA FAQ

Open the fresh food door and look at the left wall - KitchenAid puts the refrigerator model and serial plate inside the refrigerator, on the left wall, and the KBBL206EPA is no exception. Having the full KBBL206EPA number and the serial to hand is what lets a part be identified before anyone travels out.

Production of the KBBL206EPA ended long ago. That does not rule out a repair - the wear items on a refrigerator are largely shared across a generation - but it does mean the parts question on a KBBL206EPA is settled before any figure is put on the work.

With the refrigerator switched off at its supply, the first things checked on a KBBL206EPA are the airflow path from the freezer and the evaporator fan that drives it. A fan that has stopped, or an evaporator frosted over, starves the fresh food side while the freezer carries on as normal. On a KBBL206EPA that is component-level work rather than anything to do with the sealed system.

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