KitchenAid Refrigerator

KitchenAid KSRI22FNSS

Model # KSRI22FNSS

The KSRI22FNSS is one of the KitchenAid refrigerators. It was on KitchenAid’s US product site from June 2004 to March 2006 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 KSRI22FNSS01. A plate reading one of those is still a KSRI22FNSS; 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 KSRI22FNSS 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 2004 to March 2006
  • Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KSRI22FNSS01
  • A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record

Most Common Issues on This Model

01

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

02

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

03

Evaporator fan bearing wear, ending in a fan that will not start from cold

04

Condenser coils choked with dust and pet hair, making the compressor run longer and hotter than it was meant to

Error Codes Common to This Model

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FAQ

KitchenAid KSRI22FNSS FAQ

KitchenAid places the refrigerator plate inside the refrigerator, on the left wall, so that is where the KSRI22FNSS label will be. It lists the model and the serial on the same silver sticker. Getting the KSRI22FNSS number exactly right matters more on an older cabinet, where parts diverged between otherwise identical-looking siblings.

It is discontinued, so parts availability is the question that decides everything else. We look up what can still be supplied for a KSRI22FNSS at the outset, and if the part that has failed cannot be had we say so plainly instead of charging for a diagnosis that leads nowhere.

With the refrigerator switched off at its supply, the condenser coils and condenser fan on a KSRI22FNSS are the first place to look, because a coil packed with dust makes the compressor work far longer to shed the same heat. A perished door seal on a KSRI22FNSS produces exactly the same symptom, so both are checked together.

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