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KitchenAid KSSP42QFB

Model # KSSP42QFB

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The KSSP42QFB is a KitchenAid refrigerator, recorded by its source as a 42″ built-in side-by-side refrigerator in the Superba series. It appears on KitchenAid’s US product site in March 2000 and nowhere after that. That dates the machine to around then: discontinued, and now around a quarter of a century old. Nothing beyond what that source states is claimed here, and no figure has been carried across from a neighbouring model number.

KSSP42QFB is one of the colour and finish numbers KitchenAid printed on the same archived product page as KSSP42QF. If the plate in your kitchen reads KSSP42QFB, this is the right page; if it reads KSSP42QF or one of its siblings (KSSP42QFS, KSSP42QFW), the machine underneath is the same cabinet in a different finish. At this age the work on a KSSP42QFB 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

  • 42" built-in side-by-side refrigerator
  • KitchenAid Superba series
  • Built-in cabinet, made to sit flush with surrounding joinery
  • Recorded on KitchenAid's US product site in March 2000
  • Printed by KitchenAid as a colour or finish variant of KSSP42QF

Most Common Issues on This Model

01

Sealed-system problems - a refrigerant leak or a restriction - the one fault worth weighing carefully against the value of the cabinet

02

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

03

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

04

Door switch and interior lighting faults, including a lamp that stays lit with the door 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 KSSP42QFB FAQ

KitchenAid places the refrigerator plate inside the refrigerator, on the left wall, so that is where the KSSP42QFB label will be. It lists the model and the serial on the same silver sticker. Getting the KSSP42QFB 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 KSSP42QFB 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 KSSP42QFB 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 KSSP42QFB produces exactly the same symptom, so both are checked together.

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