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KitchenAid KBFC42FSS

Model # KBFC42FSS

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The KBFC42FSS is one of the KitchenAid refrigerators. It was on KitchenAid’s US product site from May 2006 to April 2013 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 KBFC42FSS00. A plate reading one of those is still a KBFC42FSS; 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 KBFC42FSS 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 May 2006 to April 2013
  • Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KBFC42FSS00
  • A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record

Most Common Issues on This Model

01

Perished door gasket, showing as condensation round the door frame and a compressor that rarely stops

02

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

03

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

04

Start relay failure, which stops a mechanically sound compressor dead

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 KBFC42FSS FAQ

For a KBFC42FSS, 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 KBFC42FSS cabinet.

The KBFC42FSS is no longer in production. Fans, thermostats, door seals, switches and drain components are generally still obtainable for a cabinet of this generation; cabinet-specific trim and control boards are the ones that dry up. We check sourcing for the KBFC42FSS first and quote second.

With the refrigerator switched off at its supply, a noise on a KBFC42FSS 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 KBFC42FSS carries on regardless of the door, which is how the two are told apart.

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