
The KBFN506ESS belongs to KitchenAid’s US refrigerator catalogue. 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 KBFN506ESS 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
A control reading the cabinet wrongly, so the compressor runs far longer or far shorter than it should
Water inlet valve or supply line leaks, where a water feed is plumbed in
A start device that has failed, so the compressor hums briefly and drops out on overload
A control board aged out of service, the part most worth checking availability on first
