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KitchenAid KBLS36MHW

Model # KBLS36MHW

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The KBLS36MHW belongs to KitchenAid’s US refrigerator catalogue. It was on KitchenAid’s US product site from April 2001 to July 2001 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. 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 KBLS36MHW00. A plate reading one of those is still a KBLS36MHW; the suffix identifies which production revision you have, and it occasionally decides which version of a part fits. At this age the work on a KBLS36MHW 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 April 2001 to July 2001
  • Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KBLS36MHW00
  • A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record

Most Common Issues on This Model

01

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

02

A drain tube silted up with debris, which puts water where it should not be

03

Sealed-system faults, which we identify plainly rather than repair around

04

Defrost faults - heater, thermostat or timer - leaving the evaporator packed with frost and the cabinet slowly warming

Error Codes Common to This Model

Over Temp

KitchenAid Undercounter Wine Cellar Over Temp Alert

F8 E3

KitchenAid French Door Refrigerator F8 E3 Error Code

F8 E8

KitchenAid French Door Refrigerator F8 E8 Error Code

F8 EC

KitchenAid French Door Refrigerator F8 EC Error Code

H2O Light

KitchenAid Refrigerator H2O Filter Status Light

CL or LO

KitchenAid Undercounter Beverage Center CL or LO Error Code

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FAQ

KitchenAid KBLS36MHW FAQ

KitchenAid places the refrigerator plate inside the refrigerator, on the left wall, so that is where the KBLS36MHW label will be. It lists the model and the serial on the same silver sticker. Getting the KBLS36MHW number exactly right matters more on an older cabinet, where parts diverged between otherwise identical-looking siblings.

It is discontinued, so parts availability is the question that decides everything else. We look up what can still be supplied for a KBLS36MHW 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, the condenser coils and condenser fan on a KBLS36MHW are the first place to look, because a coil packed with dust makes the compressor work far longer to shed the same heat. A perished door seal on a KBLS36MHW produces exactly the same symptom, so both are checked together.

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