KitchenAid sold the KBLS36FKW as part of its US refrigerator range. It was on KitchenAid’s US product site from February 2002 to June 2003 and gone after that. That places the machine inside that window: discontinued, and now roughly twenty years old. 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.
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 KBLS36FKW01, KBLS36FKW02. A plate reading one of those is still a KBLS36FKW; 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 KBLS36FKW 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 from February 2002 to June 2003
- Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KBLS36FKW01, KBLS36FKW02
- A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record
Most Common Issues on This Model
Defrost drain freezing solid, which puts meltwater under the crisper drawers instead of down the drain
Ice maker fill or harvest faults, where an ice maker is fitted
An interior lamp that has failed, or a door switch that no longer tells the control the door is closed
Shelf and bin breakages, which on a discontinued model are worth chasing early