KitchenAid Refrigerator

KitchenAid KSSP36QKS

Model # KSSP36QKS

The KSSP36QKS is a KitchenAid refrigerator. It was on KitchenAid’s US product site from February 2002 to August 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, so there is no capacity or dimension quoted on this page. A number lifted from a sibling model would be worse than silence.

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 KSSP36QKS00, KSSP36QKS01. A plate reading one of those is still a KSSP36QKS; 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 KSSP36QKS 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 August 2003
  • Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KSSP36QKS00, KSSP36QKS01
  • A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record

Most Common Issues on This Model

01

A defrost cycle that has stopped running, so ice builds behind the freezer back panel until airflow chokes

02

Ice production tailing off - usually the fill valve, a fill tube frozen shut, or the module itself

03

Door switch and interior lighting faults, including a lamp that stays lit with the door shut

04

Broken crisper runners and door bin lugs - cosmetic, but worth sourcing while parts last

Error Codes Common to This Model

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FAQ

KitchenAid KSSP36QKS FAQ

KitchenAid gives the location for its refrigerators as inside the refrigerator, on the left wall, and that is where the KSSP36QKS 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 KSSP36QKS sits in a family of very similar numbers.

If a part for the KSSP36QKS cannot be sourced, we tell you at the point we find out and you are not billed for work that cannot be completed. That check comes first on a discontinued model like the KSSP36QKS, not last.

With the refrigerator switched off at its supply, a sudden and total loss of cooling on a KSSP36QKS points at the compressor start device or the control rather than gradual wear, since wear-related faults arrive slowly. The distinction matters on a KSSP36QKS, because one is an inexpensive component and the other decides whether the cabinet is worth keeping.

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