KitchenAid Refrigerator

KitchenAid KBFN506ESS

Model # KBFN506ESS

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

01

A control reading the cabinet wrongly, so the compressor runs far longer or far shorter than it should

02

Water inlet valve or supply line leaks, where a water feed is plumbed in

03

A start device that has failed, so the compressor hums briefly and drops out on overload

04

A control board aged out of service, the part most worth checking availability on first

Error Codes Common to This Model

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FAQ

KitchenAid KBFN506ESS FAQ

Inside the refrigerator, on the left wall is where KitchenAid says the label is, and that holds for the KBFN506ESS. The adhesive label there gives model and serial. Copying the KBFN506ESS string character by character is worth the extra minute, since one letter separates several different cabinets.

It is discontinued, so parts availability is the question that decides everything else. We look up what can still be supplied for a KBFN506ESS 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, leaving the KBFN506ESS propped open to the air is sensible if it is no longer holding temperature, because a closed cabinet that is not cooling grows mould quickly. Food safety comes first on a KBFN506ESS as on anything else, and anything that has sat above a safe temperature for hours should go in the bin.

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