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KitchenAid KBFC42FTS

Model # KBFC42FTS

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The KBFC42FTS is a KitchenAid refrigerator. It was on KitchenAid’s US product site from October 2010 to February 2017 and gone after that. That places the machine inside that window: discontinued, and now getting on for fifteen years old. No published specification for this model was recovered. What survives is the model number and a dated record of when KitchenAid was showing it, and that is what is set out here.

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 KBFC42FTS00, KBFC42FTS02, KBFC42FTS03, KBFC42FTS04, KBFC42FTS05, KBFC42FTS06, KBFC42FTS08. A plate reading one of those is still a KBFC42FTS; 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 KBFC42FTS 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 from October 2010 to February 2017
  • Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KBFC42FTS00, KBFC42FTS02, KBFC42FTS03, KBFC42FTS04, KBFC42FTS05, KBFC42FTS06, KBFC42FTS08
  • A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record

Most Common Issues on This Model

01

Ice maker fill or harvest faults, where an ice maker is fitted

02

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

03

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

04

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

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 KBFC42FTS FAQ

KitchenAid places the refrigerator plate inside the refrigerator, on the left wall, so that is where the KBFC42FTS label will be. It lists the model and the serial on the same silver sticker. Getting the KBFC42FTS number exactly right matters more on an older cabinet, where parts diverged between otherwise identical-looking siblings.

It is discontinued, so parts availability is the question that decides everything else. We look up what can still be supplied for a KBFC42FTS at the outset, and if the part that has failed cannot be had we say so plainly instead of charging for a diagnosis that leads nowhere.

With the refrigerator switched off at its supply, the condenser coils and condenser fan on a KBFC42FTS are the first place to look, because a coil packed with dust makes the compressor work far longer to shed the same heat. A perished door seal on a KBFC42FTS produces exactly the same symptom, so both are checked together.

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