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KitchenAid KSSC42FJW

Model # KSSC42FJW

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The KSSC42FJW is a KitchenAid refrigerator. It appears on KitchenAid’s US product site in April 2001 and nowhere after that. That dates the machine to around then: discontinued, and now around a quarter of a century old. No published specification for this model was recovered — no capacity, no width, no feature list — so none is stated here, and no figure has been taken from a neighbouring model number.

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 KSSC42FJW00. A plate reading one of those is still a KSSC42FJW; 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 KSSC42FJW 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 in April 2001
  • Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KSSC42FJW00
  • A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record

Most Common Issues on This Model

01

A weeping inlet valve leaving a slow puddle behind the cabinet that is easy to miss

02

Start relay failure, which stops a mechanically sound compressor dead

03

Control board faults after many years of service, showing as a cabinet that ignores its settings

04

A failing evaporator fan, heard as a rising whine or a rattle that changes when the door is held shut

Error Codes Common to This Model

F8 E3

KitchenAid French Door Refrigerator F8 E3 Error Code

F8 E8

KitchenAid French Door Refrigerator F8 E8 Error Code

F8 EC

KitchenAid French Door Refrigerator F8 EC Error Code

H2O Light

KitchenAid Refrigerator H2O Filter Status Light

CL or LO

KitchenAid Undercounter Beverage Center CL or LO Error Code

E1

KitchenAid Undercounter Refrigerator, Wine Cellar and Beverage Center E1 Error Code

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FAQ

KitchenAid KSSC42FJW FAQ

KitchenAid gives the location for its refrigerators as inside the refrigerator, on the left wall, and that is where the KSSC42FJW plate sits. It is an adhesive label, typically silver on major appliances, carrying the model number and the serial number together. Read the whole string off the label rather than from memory, because a KSSC42FJW sits in a family of very similar numbers.

Sometimes, yes - a discontinued model like the KSSC42FJW can mean waiting on a specialist supplier for an obsolete part. We establish that on a KSSC42FJW before the job starts, so the choice between waiting, substituting where a substitute genuinely exists, and replacing the machine is yours to make with the facts in front of you.

With the refrigerator switched off at its supply, frost behind the freezer back panel on a KSSC42FJW means the defrost cycle is not completing - the heater, the defrost thermostat or the control that times it. Left alone on a KSSC42FJW, that ice eventually blocks the airflow the fresh food compartment depends on.

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