
The KBFS20EVMS is a US-market KitchenAid refrigerator. It was on KitchenAid’s US product site from February 2011 to October 2023 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 KBFS20EVMS00, KBFS20EVMS1, KBFS20EVMS11, KBFS20EVMS13, KBFS20EVMS7, KBFS20EVMS8, KBFS20EVMS9. A plate reading one of those is still a KBFS20EVMS; 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 KBFS20EVMS 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 February 2011 to October 2023
- Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KBFS20EVMS00, KBFS20EVMS1, KBFS20EVMS11, KBFS20EVMS13, KBFS20EVMS7, KBFS20EVMS8, KBFS20EVMS9
- A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record
Most Common Issues on This Model
A failing evaporator fan, heard as a rising whine or a rattle that changes when the door is held shut
A condenser fan that has seized or slowed, which shows first as poor cooling in warm weather
Door hinge and closer wear, so the door sits proud and no longer swings shut on its own
A drain tube silted up with debris, which puts water where it should not be
