KitchenAid Refrigerator

KitchenAid KRSC503ESS

Model # KRSC503ESS

The KRSC503ESS belongs to KitchenAid’s US refrigerator catalogue. It was on KitchenAid’s US product site from July 2015 to September 2015 and gone after that. That places the machine inside that window: discontinued, and now about a decade into service. No published specification for this model was recovered. What survives is the model number and a dated record of when KitchenAid was showing it, and that is what is set out here.

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 KRSC503ESS 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 from July 2015 to September 2015
  • 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

Temperature sensing wandered out of calibration with age, giving a cabinet that never settles

02

Water supply faults - valve, line or filter housing - on machines plumbed for water

03

Compressor start relay and overload faults, heard as a click every few minutes with no cooling following it

04

Electronic control failure, where the machine runs but no longer answers the panel

Error Codes Common to This Model

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FAQ

KitchenAid KRSC503ESS FAQ

The KRSC503ESS plate is inside the refrigerator, on the left wall, in KitchenAid's own words. It is the adhesive label used across their major appliances, typically silver, and it carries both numbers. A photograph of the KRSC503ESS label is the most reliable thing you can send us.

The KRSC503ESS is discontinued, but age alone does not decide it. Most of what fails on a KRSC503ESS is a wear component priced in tens of dollars rather than hundreds, and those repairs stay worthwhile. The exception is the sealed system, where the cost sits close to what the cabinet is worth, and we check the parts position before quoting either way.

With the refrigerator switched off at its supply, the fill valve, the fill tube and the ice maker module on a KRSC503ESS are checked in that order, because a fill tube frozen shut imitates a dead module exactly. The sealed system on a KRSC503ESS is very rarely the reason ice production stops.

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