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KitchenAid KSSC42QKS

Model # KSSC42QKS

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The KSSC42QKS is a KitchenAid refrigerator. It was on KitchenAid’s US product site from February 2002 to April 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. Rather than fill the gap with a figure borrowed from a similar-looking number, this page says only what the sources actually carry.

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 KSSC42QKS00, KSSC42QKS01, KSSC42QKS02. A plate reading one of those is still a KSSC42QKS; 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 KSSC42QKS 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 February 2002 to April 2003
  • Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KSSC42QKS00, KSSC42QKS01, KSSC42QKS02
  • A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record

Most Common Issues on This Model

01

Cold control or thermistor drift, so the cabinet either runs warm or over-freezes the top shelf

02

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

03

Start relay failure, which stops a mechanically sound compressor dead

04

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

Error Codes Common to This Model

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

E2

KitchenAid Undercounter Refrigerator, Wine Cellar and Beverage Center E2 Error Code

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FAQ

KitchenAid KSSC42QKS FAQ

KitchenAid places the refrigerator plate inside the refrigerator, on the left wall, so that is where the KSSC42QKS label will be. It lists the model and the serial on the same silver sticker. Getting the KSSC42QKS number exactly right matters more on an older cabinet, where parts diverged between otherwise identical-looking siblings.

The KSSC42QKS is out of production, and whether repair beats replacement comes down to which component has gone. A seal, a fan or a control is usually straightforward economics; a sealed-system failure on a KSSC42QKS of this age rarely is, and we will tell you so.

With the refrigerator switched off at its supply, and the water line closed where one is fitted, a KSSC42QKS comes forward on its rollers once the front levelling feet are wound up clear of the floor. Taking the weight off those feet first is what prevents a scored floor and a strained door frame on a KSSC42QKS.

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