KitchenAid Cooktop

KitchenAid KGCU484VSS

Model # KGCU484VSS

The KGCU484VSS is a US-market KitchenAid cooktop. No published specification for this model was recovered. Rather than fill the gap with a figure borrowed from a similar-looking number, this page says only what the sources actually carry. The archive of KitchenAid’s US product site holds it from September 2013 through to September 2015, and no later capture carries it.

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 KGCU484VSS00, KGCU484VSS01. A plate reading one of those is still a KGCU484VSS; the suffix identifies which production revision you have, and it occasionally decides which version of a part fits. A machine of that age has had enough cycles for the switches, the element or burner connections and the control knobs to have moved on from new, and that is where diagnosis usually starts on a KGCU484VSS. The KGCU484VSS is discontinued, so the parts question gets answered first and the price second.

Key Features

  • No published specification for this model was recovered
  • Recorded on KitchenAid's US product site from September 2013 to September 2015
  • Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KGCU484VSS00, KGCU484VSS01
  • A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record
  • KitchenAid published an installation dimension guide for it

Most Common Issues on This Model

01

Cracked or chipped ceramic glass, which takes the cooktop out of service until the glass is dealt with

02

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

03

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

04

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

Error Codes Common to This Model

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FAQ

KitchenAid KGCU484VSS FAQ

On the cooktop's liner, beneath the burners is where KitchenAid says the label is, and that holds for the KGCU484VSS. The label there gives the model and the serial. Copying the KGCU484VSS string character by character is worth the extra minute, since one letter separates several different machines.

On a discontinued machine like the KGCU484VSS there is a reasonable case for it: clearing filters, checking seals and confirming the electrical connections are sound is cheap, and it catches the wear items on a KGCU484VSS while they are still ordinary parts rather than emergencies.

Not necessarily, but it needs testing rather than assuming. With the cooktop switched off at its supply, the indicator circuit and the limiter that drives it on a KGCU484VSS are checked. An indicator stuck on with the KGCU484VSS cold points at that circuit rather than at a live element.

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