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KitchenAid KBFN406ESS

Model # KBFN406ESS

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The KBFN406ESS is one of the KitchenAid refrigerators. It was on KitchenAid’s US product site from March 2015 to September 2015 and gone after that. That places the machine inside that window: discontinued, and now about a decade into service. 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.

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 KBFN406ESS 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 March 2015 to September 2015
  • A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record
  • KitchenAid published an installation dimension guide for it

Most Common Issues on This Model

01

Broken crisper runners and door bin lugs - cosmetic, but worth sourcing while parts last

02

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

03

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

04

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

Error Codes Common to This Model

CL or LO

KitchenAid Undercounter Beverage Center CL or LO Error Code

E1

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

E2

KitchenAid Undercounter Refrigerator, Wine Cellar and Beverage Center E2 Error Code

HI or LO

KitchenAid Undercounter Refrigerator, Wine Cellar and Beverage Center HI or LO Error Code

Over Temp

KitchenAid Undercounter Wine Cellar Over Temp Alert

F8 E3

KitchenAid French Door Refrigerator F8 E3 Error Code

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FAQ

KitchenAid KBFN406ESS FAQ

The KBFN406ESS plate is inside the refrigerator, on the left wall, in KitchenAid's own words. It is the adhesive label used across their major appliances, typically silver, and it carries both numbers. A photograph of the KBFN406ESS label is the most reliable thing you can send us.

The KBFN406ESS is discontinued, but age alone does not decide it. Most of what fails on a KBFN406ESS is a wear component priced in tens of dollars rather than hundreds, and those repairs stay worthwhile. The exception is the sealed system, where the cost sits close to what the cabinet is worth, and we check the parts position before quoting either way.

With the refrigerator switched off at its supply, the fill valve, the fill tube and the ice maker module on a KBFN406ESS are checked in that order, because a fill tube frozen shut imitates a dead module exactly. The sealed system on a KBFN406ESS is very rarely the reason ice production stops.

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