KitchenAid Refrigerator

KitchenAid KBFS25ETSS

Model # KBFS25ETSS

The KBFS25ETSS is a US-market KitchenAid refrigerator. It was on KitchenAid’s US product site from March 2011 to May 2012 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 — no capacity, no width, no feature list — so none is stated here, and no figure has been taken from a neighbouring model number.

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 KBFS25ETSS00, KBFS25ETSS01. A plate reading one of those is still a KBFS25ETSS; 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 KBFS25ETSS 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 2011 to May 2012
  • Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KBFS25ETSS00, KBFS25ETSS01
  • A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record

Most Common Issues on This Model

01

Control board faults after many years of service, showing as a cabinet that ignores its settings

02

A failing evaporator fan, heard as a rising whine or a rattle that changes when the door is held shut

03

A condenser fan that has seized or slowed, which shows first as poor cooling in warm weather

04

Door hinge and closer wear, so the door sits proud and no longer swings shut on its own

Error Codes Common to This Model

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FAQ

KitchenAid KBFS25ETSS FAQ

Open the fresh food door and look at the left wall - KitchenAid puts the refrigerator model and serial plate inside the refrigerator, on the left wall, and the KBFS25ETSS is no exception. Having the full KBFS25ETSS number and the serial to hand is what lets a part be identified before anyone travels out.

Sometimes, yes - a discontinued model like the KBFS25ETSS can mean waiting on a specialist supplier for an obsolete part. We establish that on a KBFS25ETSS before the job starts, so the choice between waiting, substituting where a substitute genuinely exists, and replacing the machine is yours to make with the facts in front of you.

With the refrigerator switched off at its supply, the first things checked on a KBFS25ETSS are the airflow path from the freezer and the evaporator fan that drives it. A fan that has stopped, or an evaporator frosted over, starves the fresh food side while the freezer carries on as normal. On a KBFS25ETSS that is component-level work rather than anything to do with the sealed system.

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