KitchenAid Refrigerator

KitchenAid KBRO36FTX

Model # KBRO36FTX

The KBRO36FTX is a KitchenAid refrigerator. It was on KitchenAid’s US product site from February 2014 to June 2016 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 — 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 KBRO36FTX00, KBRO36FTX02, KBRO36FTX03, KBRO36FTX04, KBRO36FTX05, KBRO36FTX06, KBRO36FTX07, KBRO36FTX08. A plate reading one of those is still a KBRO36FTX; 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 KBRO36FTX 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 2014 to June 2016
  • Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KBRO36FTX00, KBRO36FTX02, KBRO36FTX03, KBRO36FTX04, KBRO36FTX05, KBRO36FTX06, KBRO36FTX07, KBRO36FTX08
  • A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record

Most Common Issues on This Model

01

Lighting and door-switch problems, worth ruling out before anything is assumed about the cooling side

02

Cracked door bins and shelf trim, ordinary wear on a cabinet of this age

03

A door seal gone stiff, letting warm room air track in along one edge

04

A control reading the cabinet wrongly, so the compressor runs far longer or far shorter than it should

Error Codes Common to This Model

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FAQ

KitchenAid KBRO36FTX FAQ

For a KBRO36FTX, look inside the refrigerator, on the left wall. That is the location KitchenAid publishes for its refrigerators, and the label there is the authoritative source for the number - front-panel badging and box labels often differ from what is actually on the KBRO36FTX cabinet.

Production of the KBRO36FTX ended long ago. That does not rule out a repair - the wear items on a refrigerator are largely shared across a generation - but it does mean the parts question on a KBRO36FTX is settled before any figure is put on the work.

With the refrigerator switched off at its supply, a lamp on a KBRO36FTX that stays lit behind a closed door means the door switch has failed. It is worth dealing with, because a lamp burning continuously inside a sealed cabinet puts out enough heat to upset the temperature. On a KBRO36FTX it is a small part and a short job.

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