KitchenAid Cooktop

KitchenAid KGCP487JSS

Model # KGCP487JSS

KGCP487JSS is one of the cooktop model numbers KitchenAid carried in the United States. No published specification for this model was recovered, and none is invented here to fill the space. It sat in KitchenAid’s US catalogue from June 2001 until August 2005, which is the window the archive records.

KitchenAid appends a production-revision code to the base number on the rating plate, and the codes actually observed for this model are KGCP487JSS0, KGCP487JSS07, KGCP487JSS08. A plate reading one of those is still a KGCP487JSS; the suffix identifies which production revision you have, and it occasionally decides which version of a part fits. A KGCP487JSS still in a kitchen today has twenty-odd years behind it, and that age shows first in the switches, the element or burner connections and the control knobs. The KGCP487JSS 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 June 2001 to August 2005
  • Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KGCP487JSS0, KGCP487JSS07, KGCP487JSS08
  • A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record

Most Common Issues on This Model

01

Touch controls that respond intermittently or not at all, where a touch panel is fitted

02

Continuous ignition clicking on a gas configuration, usually moisture or debris at the igniter

03

Blocked burner ports on a gas configuration, giving a yellow, uneven or lifting flame

04

A burner cap sitting out of position, which changes the flame pattern and the heat delivered

Error Codes Common to This Model

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FAQ

KitchenAid KGCP487JSS FAQ

The plate on the cooktop's liner, beneath the burners carries everything needed: the full KGCP487JSS model string and the serial number beside it. With those two, a part for a KGCP487JSS can be identified before anyone travels out, which saves a wasted visit.

The KGCP487JSS is out of production, and whether repair beats replacement comes down to which component has gone. A seal, a switch or a control is usually straightforward economics on a KGCP487JSS; a major assembly on a machine of this age often is not, and we will say which one you are looking at.

Where a downdraft system is fitted it is, and it has its own motor and damper. With the cooktop switched off at its supply, the motor and the damper flap on a KGCP487JSS are checked, and a blocked duct run is ruled out before either is condemned on a KGCP487JSS.

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