
The KBLS19KTSS is a US-market KitchenAid refrigerator. It appears on KitchenAid’s US product site in May 2012 and nowhere after that. That dates the machine to around then: 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 KBLS19KTSS00, KBLS19KTSS01, KBLS19KTSS2, KBLS19KTSS4. A plate reading one of those is still a KBLS19KTSS; 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 KBLS19KTSS 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 in May 2012
- Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KBLS19KTSS00, KBLS19KTSS01, KBLS19KTSS2, KBLS19KTSS4
- A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record
Most Common Issues on This Model
Perished door gasket, showing as condensation round the door frame and a compressor that rarely stops
Cold control or thermistor drift, so the cabinet either runs warm or over-freezes the top shelf
A weeping inlet valve leaving a slow puddle behind the cabinet that is easy to miss
Start relay failure, which stops a mechanically sound compressor dead
