KitchenAid Cooktop

KitchenAid KGCU482VSS

Model # KGCU482VSS

The KGCU482VSS belongs to KitchenAid’s US cooktop catalogue. No published specification for this model was recovered, and none is invented here to fill the space. KitchenAid’s US product site carried it from December 2010 to September 2015, and nothing was captured for it afterwards.

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 KGCU482VSS00, KGCU482VSS01. A plate reading one of those is still a KGCU482VSS; the suffix identifies which production revision you have, and it occasionally decides which version of a part fits. A KGCU482VSS in use today is about a decade old, and the switches, the element or burner connections and the control knobs account for most of what it gets called out for. The KGCU482VSS 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 December 2010 to September 2015
  • Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KGCU482VSS00, KGCU482VSS01
  • 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 KGCU482VSS FAQ

KitchenAid places the plate on the cooktop's liner, beneath the burners, so that is where the KGCU482VSS label will be. Model and serial are printed on the same sticker. Getting the KGCU482VSS 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 KGCU482VSS has been out of production for long enough that this is a real possibility on some components, which is why availability for a KGCU482VSS is checked before a diagnosis is charged for rather than after.

Heat at the terminal, almost always. With the cooktop switched off at its supply, the receptacle and its wiring on a KGCU482VSS are inspected, because a loose connection there burns slowly and eventually takes the element with it on a KGCU482VSS.

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