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KitchenAid KBRP20ERSS

Model # KBRP20ERSS

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The KBRP20ERSS belongs to KitchenAid’s US refrigerator catalogue. It was on KitchenAid’s US product site from December 2005 to June 2016 and gone after that. That places the machine inside that window: discontinued, and now roughly twenty years 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 KBRP20ERSS00, KBRP20ERSS01. A plate reading one of those is still a KBRP20ERSS; 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 KBRP20ERSS 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 December 2005 to June 2016
  • Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KBRP20ERSS00, KBRP20ERSS01
  • 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

01

Start relay failure, which stops a mechanically sound compressor dead

02

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

03

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

04

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

Error Codes Common to This Model

E1

KitchenAid Undercounter Refrigerator, Wine Cellar and Beverage Center E1 Error Code

E2

KitchenAid Undercounter Refrigerator, Wine Cellar and Beverage Center E2 Error Code

HI or LO

KitchenAid Undercounter Refrigerator, Wine Cellar and Beverage Center HI or LO Error Code

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

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FAQ

KitchenAid KBRP20ERSS FAQ

Inside the refrigerator, on the left wall is where KitchenAid says the label is, and that holds for the KBRP20ERSS. The adhesive label there gives model and serial. Copying the KBRP20ERSS string character by character is worth the extra minute, since one letter separates several different cabinets.

The KBRP20ERSS is discontinued, but age alone does not decide it. Most of what fails on a KBRP20ERSS is a wear component priced in tens of dollars rather than hundreds, and those repairs stay worthwhile. The exception is the sealed system, where the cost sits close to what the cabinet is worth, and we check the parts position before quoting either way.

With the refrigerator switched off at its supply, leaving the KBRP20ERSS propped open to the air is sensible if it is no longer holding temperature, because a closed cabinet that is not cooling grows mould quickly. Food safety comes first on a KBRP20ERSS as on anything else, and anything that has sat above a safe temperature for hours should go in the bin.

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