KitchenAid Refrigerator

KitchenAid KBBL306ESS

Model # KBBL306ESS

KitchenAid sold the KBBL306ESS as part of its US refrigerator range. It was on KitchenAid’s US product site from March 2015 to October 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, so there is no capacity or dimension quoted on this page. A number lifted from a sibling model would be worse than silence.

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 KBBL306ESS 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 October 2015
  • A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record

Most Common Issues on This Model

01

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

02

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

03

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

04

Ice production tailing off - usually the fill valve, a fill tube frozen shut, or the module itself

Error Codes Common to This Model

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FAQ

KitchenAid KBBL306ESS FAQ

For a KBBL306ESS, look inside the refrigerator, on the left wall. That is the location KitchenAid publishes for its refrigerators, and the label there is the authoritative source for the number - front-panel badging and box labels often differ from what is actually on the KBBL306ESS cabinet.

If a part for the KBBL306ESS cannot be sourced, we tell you at the point we find out and you are not billed for work that cannot be completed. That check comes first on a discontinued model like the KBBL306ESS, not last.

With the refrigerator switched off at its supply, a noise on a KBBL306ESS that stops or changes as the door opens points at the evaporator fan, because the door switch cuts that fan when the door is opened. A condenser fan or compressor noise on a KBBL306ESS carries on regardless of the door, which is how the two are told apart.

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