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KitchenAid KBLA20EMSS

Model # KBLA20EMSS

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The KBLA20EMSS is a KitchenAid refrigerator. It appears on KitchenAid’s US product site in August 2004 and nowhere after that. That dates the machine to around then: discontinued, and now roughly twenty years old. 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 KBLA20EMSS00. A plate reading one of those is still a KBLA20EMSS; 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 KBLA20EMSS 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 in August 2004
  • Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KBLA20EMSS00
  • A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record

Most Common Issues on This Model

01

Restricted condenser airflow, the commonest reason an older cabinet slowly loses its grip on temperature

02

Handle, hinge and door-closer wear from years of daily use

03

Blocked defrost drain leaving water under the crispers or running out onto the floor

04

Loss of refrigerant charge, the fault that decides whether an old cabinet is worth keeping

Error Codes Common to This Model

CL or LO

KitchenAid Undercounter Beverage Center CL or LO Error Code

E1

KitchenAid Undercounter Refrigerator, Wine Cellar and Beverage Center E1 Error Code

E2

KitchenAid Undercounter Refrigerator, Wine Cellar and Beverage Center E2 Error Code

HI or LO

KitchenAid Undercounter Refrigerator, Wine Cellar and Beverage Center HI or LO Error Code

Over Temp

KitchenAid Undercounter Wine Cellar Over Temp Alert

F8 E3

KitchenAid French Door Refrigerator F8 E3 Error Code

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FAQ

KitchenAid KBLA20EMSS FAQ

KitchenAid gives the location for its refrigerators as inside the refrigerator, on the left wall, and that is where the KBLA20EMSS plate sits. It is an adhesive label, typically silver on major appliances, carrying the model number and the serial number together. Read the whole string off the label rather than from memory, because a KBLA20EMSS sits in a family of very similar numbers.

Production of the KBLA20EMSS 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 KBLA20EMSS is settled before any figure is put on the work.

With the refrigerator switched off at its supply, frost behind the freezer back panel on a KBLA20EMSS means the defrost cycle is not completing - the heater, the defrost thermostat or the control that times it. Left alone on a KBLA20EMSS, that ice eventually blocks the airflow the fresh food compartment depends on.

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