The KDTE404DBL is a KitchenAid dishwasher. 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. It appears on KitchenAid’s US product site in July 2014 and nowhere after that.
KitchenAid appends a production-revision code to the base number on the rating plate, and the codes actually observed for this model are KDTE404DBL0. A plate reading one of those is still a KDTE404DBL; the suffix identifies which production revision you have, and it occasionally decides which version of a part fits. That puts a KDTE404DBL roughly ten to fifteen years into service, the point at which the door seal, the pump and the spray system tend to need attention. Discontinued does not mean unrepairable, but it does mean availability of the specific part for a KDTE404DBL is established before any figure is put on the job.
Key Features
- No published specification for this model was recovered
- Recorded on KitchenAid's US product site in July 2014
- Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KDTE404DBL0
- A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record
Most Common Issues on This Model
Wash motor bearing wear, heard as a rising whine or grinding through the cycle
A door latch or latch switch that no longer tells the control the door is shut, so the cycle will not start
A perished door seal, showing as damp on the floor in front of the machine rather than an obvious flood
A heating element that has lost continuity, so the load comes out clean but cold and wet