
The KFIL27CXMS belongs to KitchenAid’s US refrigerator catalogue. It appears on KitchenAid’s US product site in January 2015 and nowhere after that. That dates the machine to around then: 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 KFIL27CXMS0, KFIL27CXMS1, KFIL27CXMS2, KFIL27CXMS3, KFIL27CXMS4, KFIL27CXMS5. A plate reading one of those is still a KFIL27CXMS; 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 KFIL27CXMS 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 in January 2015
- Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KFIL27CXMS0, KFIL27CXMS1, KFIL27CXMS2, KFIL27CXMS3, KFIL27CXMS4, KFIL27CXMS5
- A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record
Most Common Issues on This Model
Drain blockage at the back of the freezer floor - a routine clear rather than a sealed-system job
Sealed-system problems - a refrigerant leak or a restriction - the one fault worth weighing carefully against the value of the cabinet
A defrost cycle that has stopped running, so ice builds behind the freezer back panel until airflow chokes
Ice production tailing off - usually the fill valve, a fill tube frozen shut, or the module itself
