KitchenAid Refrigerator

KitchenAid KSBS25FKWH

Model # KSBS25FKWH

The KSBS25FKWH is one of the KitchenAid refrigerators. It was on KitchenAid’s US product site from June 2002 to October 2003 and gone after that. That places the machine inside that window: discontinued, and now roughly twenty years old. 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.

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 KSBS25FKWH00, KSBS25FKWH01, KSBS25FKWH02. A plate reading one of those is still a KSBS25FKWH; the suffix identifies which production revision you have, and it occasionally decides which version of a part fits. At this age the work on a KSBS25FKWH is mostly mechanical and electrical rather than electronic — seals, fans, defrost components, switches and the start device. Those are the parts still in circulation for cabinets of this generation, and they are what we check availability on before any figure is put on a repair.

Key Features

  • No published specification for this model was recovered
  • Recorded on KitchenAid's US product site from June 2002 to October 2003
  • Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KSBS25FKWH00, KSBS25FKWH01, KSBS25FKWH02
  • A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record

Most Common Issues on This Model

01

Sealed-system faults, which we identify plainly rather than repair around

02

Defrost faults - heater, thermostat or timer - leaving the evaporator packed with frost and the cabinet slowly warming

03

An ice maker that fills but will not eject, or a bin that has frozen into one solid block

04

Lighting and door-switch problems, worth ruling out before anything is assumed about the cooling side

Error Codes Common to This Model

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FAQ

KitchenAid KSBS25FKWH FAQ

Inside the refrigerator, on the left wall is where KitchenAid says the label is, and that holds for the KSBS25FKWH. The adhesive label there gives model and serial. Copying the KSBS25FKWH string character by character is worth the extra minute, since one letter separates several different cabinets.

The KSBS25FKWH is discontinued, but age alone does not decide it. Most of what fails on a KSBS25FKWH 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, leaving the KSBS25FKWH propped open to the air is sensible if it is no longer holding temperature, because a closed cabinet that is not cooling grows mould quickly. Food safety comes first on a KSBS25FKWH as on anything else, and anything that has sat above a safe temperature for hours should go in the bin.

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