KitchenAid Refrigerator

KitchenAid KBFS20EVMS

Model # KBFS20EVMS

The KBFS20EVMS is a US-market KitchenAid refrigerator. It was on KitchenAid’s US product site from February 2011 to October 2023 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 KBFS20EVMS00, KBFS20EVMS1, KBFS20EVMS11, KBFS20EVMS13, KBFS20EVMS7, KBFS20EVMS8, KBFS20EVMS9. A plate reading one of those is still a KBFS20EVMS; 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 KBFS20EVMS 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 February 2011 to October 2023
  • Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KBFS20EVMS00, KBFS20EVMS1, KBFS20EVMS11, KBFS20EVMS13, KBFS20EVMS7, KBFS20EVMS8, KBFS20EVMS9
  • A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record

Most Common Issues on This Model

01

A failing evaporator fan, heard as a rising whine or a rattle that changes when the door is held shut

02

A condenser fan that has seized or slowed, which shows first as poor cooling in warm weather

03

Door hinge and closer wear, so the door sits proud and no longer swings shut on its own

04

A drain tube silted up with debris, which puts water where it should not be

Error Codes Common to This Model

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FAQ

KitchenAid KBFS20EVMS FAQ

The KBFS20EVMS 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 KBFS20EVMS 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 KBFS20EVMS 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 KBFS20EVMS are checked in that order, because a fill tube frozen shut imitates a dead module exactly. The sealed system on a KBFS20EVMS is very rarely the reason ice production stops.

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