The KDTE104ESS is a US-market KitchenAid dishwasher. No published specification for this model was recovered, and none is invented here to fill the space. The archive of KitchenAid’s US product site holds it from August 2015 through to September 2015, and no later capture carries it.
KitchenAid appends a production-revision code to the base number on the rating plate, and the codes actually observed for this model are KDTE104ESS3. A plate reading one of those is still a KDTE104ESS; the suffix identifies which production revision you have, and it occasionally decides which version of a part fits. A machine of that age has had enough cycles for the door seal, the pump and the spray system to have moved on from new, and that is where diagnosis usually starts on a KDTE104ESS. The KDTE104ESS is no longer made, so what can actually be obtained for it is the first thing looked at, not the last.
Key Features
- No published specification for this model was recovered
- Recorded on KitchenAid's US product site from August 2015 to September 2015
- Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KDTE104ESS3
- 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
Scale build-up on the heater and in the spray system where the water is hard
A diverter or wash-arm feed fault that leaves one rack washing and the other not
A drain pump that hums but moves no water, leaving standing water in the sump at the end of a cycle
Wash motor bearing wear, heard as a rising whine or grinding through the cycle