KitchenAid Refrigerator

KitchenAid KBLP36FKS

Model # KBLP36FKS

KitchenAid sold the KBLP36FKS as part of its US refrigerator range. It was on KitchenAid’s US product site from October 2001 to August 2003 and gone after that. That places the machine inside that window: discontinued, and now around a quarter of a century 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.

At this age the work on a KBLP36FKS is mostly mechanical and electrical rather than electronic — seals, fans, defrost components, switches and the start device. Those are the parts still in circulation for cabinets of this generation, and they are what we check availability on before any figure is put on a repair.

Key Features

  • No published specification for this model was recovered
  • Recorded on KitchenAid's US product site from October 2001 to August 2003

Most Common Issues on This Model

01

An interior lamp that has failed, or a door switch that no longer tells the control the door is closed

02

Shelf and bin breakages, which on a discontinued model are worth chasing early

03

Door gasket hardened with age, so the seal no longer pulls the door tight against the cabinet

04

Temperature sensing wandered out of calibration with age, giving a cabinet that never settles

Error Codes Common to This Model

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FAQ

KitchenAid KBLP36FKS FAQ

KitchenAid gives the location for its refrigerators as inside the refrigerator, on the left wall, and that is where the KBLP36FKS plate sits. It is an adhesive label, typically silver on major appliances, carrying the model number and the serial number together. Read the whole string off the label rather than from memory, because a KBLP36FKS sits in a family of very similar numbers.

Sometimes, yes - a discontinued model like the KBLP36FKS can mean waiting on a specialist supplier for an obsolete part. We establish that on a KBLP36FKS 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, frost behind the freezer back panel on a KBLP36FKS means the defrost cycle is not completing - the heater, the defrost thermostat or the control that times it. Left alone on a KBLP36FKS, that ice eventually blocks the airflow the fresh food compartment depends on.

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