KitchenAid Microwave

KitchenAid KEMS308GSS

Model # KEMS308GSS

KEMS308GSS is one of the microwave oven model numbers KitchenAid carried in the United States. KitchenAid’s own product material describes it as a Superba® 30″ Microwave Convection Upper/Convection Lower Oven, and that description is the whole of the published specification recovered for the KEMS308GSS. The only dated record of it is a capture of KitchenAid’s US product site from January 2000.

That puts the KEMS308GSS two decades or more into use, which is where the door latch, the interlock switches and the turntable drive start to decide how the machine behaves. Since the model is out of production, we settle what can still be supplied for it before the work is quoted.

Key Features

  • Superba® 30" Microwave Convection Upper/Convection Lower Oven
  • Recorded on KitchenAid's US product site in January 2000
  • No rating-plate revision code was observed for this model

Most Common Issues on This Model

01

Exhaust fan noise or failure, where the unit is installed over a range

02

Grease and charcoal filters left unchanged, which shows as poor extraction and a labouring fan

03

High-voltage component failure, which is bench work for a technician rather than anything an owner can inspect

04

Control board faults after years of heat and grease

Error Codes Common to This Model

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FAQ

KitchenAid KEMS308GSS FAQ

KitchenAid places the plate inside the door, so that is where the KEMS308GSS label will be. Model and serial are printed on the same sticker. Getting the KEMS308GSS number exactly right matters most on an older machine, where parts diverged between otherwise identical-looking siblings.

Then the job stops there and you are told. The KEMS308GSS has been out of production for long enough that this is a real possibility on some components, which is why availability for a KEMS308GSS is checked before a diagnosis is charged for rather than after.

That is typically a thermal protector reacting to a blocked cooling path. With the KEMS308GSS unplugged at the wall, the external vents and filters of a KEMS308GSS can be cleared, which sometimes settles it. If a KEMS308GSS keeps stopping after that, the fault is internal and is a technician's job.

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