KitchenAid Refrigerator

KitchenAid KBRA22KMBL

Model # KBRA22KMBL

The KBRA22KMBL is one of the KitchenAid refrigerators. 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, so there is no capacity or dimension quoted on this page. A number lifted from a sibling model would be worse than silence.

At this age the work on a KBRA22KMBL 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
  • A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record

Most Common Issues on This Model

01

Water supply faults - valve, line or filter housing - on machines plumbed for water

02

Compressor start relay and overload faults, heard as a click every few minutes with no cooling following it

03

Electronic control failure, where the machine runs but no longer answers the panel

04

Evaporator fan bearing wear, ending in a fan that will not start from cold

Error Codes Common to This Model

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FAQ

KitchenAid KBRA22KMBL FAQ

For a KBRA22KMBL, look inside the refrigerator, on the left wall. That is the location KitchenAid publishes for its refrigerators, and the label there is the authoritative source for the number - front-panel badging and box labels often differ from what is actually on the KBRA22KMBL cabinet.

If a part for the KBRA22KMBL cannot be sourced, we tell you at the point we find out and you are not billed for work that cannot be completed. That check comes first on a discontinued model like the KBRA22KMBL, not last.

With the refrigerator switched off at its supply, a noise on a KBRA22KMBL that stops or changes as the door opens points at the evaporator fan, because the door switch cuts that fan when the door is opened. A condenser fan or compressor noise on a KBRA22KMBL carries on regardless of the door, which is how the two are told apart.

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