
The KBLO36FTX is a US-market KitchenAid refrigerator. It was on KitchenAid’s US product site from November 2013 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.
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 KBLO36FTX00, KBLO36FTX02, KBLO36FTX03, KBLO36FTX04, KBLO36FTX05, KBLO36FTX06, KBLO36FTX08. A plate reading one of those is still a KBLO36FTX; 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 KBLO36FTX 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 November 2013 to September 2015
- Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KBLO36FTX00, KBLO36FTX02, KBLO36FTX03, KBLO36FTX04, KBLO36FTX05, KBLO36FTX06, KBLO36FTX08
- 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
Cold control or thermistor drift, so the cabinet either runs warm or over-freezes the top shelf
A weeping inlet valve leaving a slow puddle behind the cabinet that is easy to miss
Start relay failure, which stops a mechanically sound compressor dead
Control board faults after many years of service, showing as a cabinet that ignores its settings
