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KitchenAid KBFA20ER

Model # KBFA20ER

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The KBFA20ER is a KitchenAid refrigerator. It appears on KitchenAid’s US product site in December 2005 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 KBFA20ER 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 December 2005
  • A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record

Most Common Issues on This Model

01

An interior lamp that has failed, or a door switch that no longer tells the control the door is closed

02

Shelf and bin breakages, which on a discontinued model are worth chasing early

03

Door gasket hardened with age, so the seal no longer pulls the door tight against the cabinet

04

Temperature sensing wandered out of calibration with age, giving a cabinet that never settles

Error Codes Common to This Model

F8 E3

KitchenAid French Door Refrigerator F8 E3 Error Code

F8 E8

KitchenAid French Door Refrigerator F8 E8 Error Code

F8 EC

KitchenAid French Door Refrigerator F8 EC Error Code

H2O Light

KitchenAid Refrigerator H2O Filter Status Light

CL or LO

KitchenAid Undercounter Beverage Center CL or LO Error Code

E1

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

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FAQ

KitchenAid KBFA20ER FAQ

KitchenAid gives the location for its refrigerators as inside the refrigerator, on the left wall, and that is where the KBFA20ER 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 KBFA20ER sits in a family of very similar numbers.

If a part for the KBFA20ER 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 KBFA20ER, not last.

With the refrigerator switched off at its supply, a sudden and total loss of cooling on a KBFA20ER points at the compressor start device or the control rather than gradual wear, since wear-related faults arrive slowly. The distinction matters on a KBFA20ER, because one is an inexpensive component and the other decides whether the cabinet is worth keeping.

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