KitchenAid Refrigerator

KitchenAid KBLO36FTX

Model # KBLO36FTX

The KBLO36FTX is a US-market KitchenAid refrigerator. It was on KitchenAid’s US product site from November 2013 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. 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 KBLO36FTX00, KBLO36FTX02, KBLO36FTX03, KBLO36FTX04, KBLO36FTX05, KBLO36FTX06, KBLO36FTX08. A plate reading one of those is still a KBLO36FTX; 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 KBLO36FTX 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 November 2013 to September 2015
  • Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KBLO36FTX00, KBLO36FTX02, KBLO36FTX03, KBLO36FTX04, KBLO36FTX05, KBLO36FTX06, KBLO36FTX08
  • 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

Cold control or thermistor drift, so the cabinet either runs warm or over-freezes the top shelf

02

A weeping inlet valve leaving a slow puddle behind the cabinet that is easy to miss

03

Start relay failure, which stops a mechanically sound compressor dead

04

Control board faults after many years of service, showing as a cabinet that ignores its settings

Error Codes Common to This Model

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FAQ

KitchenAid KBLO36FTX FAQ

KitchenAid places the refrigerator plate inside the refrigerator, on the left wall, so that is where the KBLO36FTX label will be. It lists the model and the serial on the same silver sticker. Getting the KBLO36FTX number exactly right matters more on an older cabinet, where parts diverged between otherwise identical-looking siblings.

The KBLO36FTX is discontinued, but age alone does not decide it. Most of what fails on a KBLO36FTX is a wear component priced in tens of dollars rather than hundreds, and those repairs stay worthwhile. The exception is the sealed system, where the cost sits close to what the cabinet is worth, and we check the parts position before quoting either way.

With the refrigerator switched off at its supply, the condenser coils and condenser fan on a KBLO36FTX are the first place to look, because a coil packed with dust makes the compressor work far longer to shed the same heat. A perished door seal on a KBLO36FTX produces exactly the same symptom, so both are checked together.

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