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KitchenAid KSSS42QJW

Model # KSSS42QJW

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The KSSS42QJW is a US-market 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. 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 KSSS42QJW00. A plate reading one of those is still a KSSS42QJW; 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 KSSS42QJW 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: KSSS42QJW00
  • A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record

Most Common Issues on This Model

01

Cracked door bins and shelf trim, ordinary wear on a cabinet of this age

02

A door seal gone stiff, letting warm room air track in along one edge

03

A control reading the cabinet wrongly, so the compressor runs far longer or far shorter than it should

04

Water inlet valve or supply line leaks, where a water feed is plumbed in

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 KSSS42QJW FAQ

KitchenAid places the refrigerator plate inside the refrigerator, on the left wall, so that is where the KSSS42QJW label will be. It lists the model and the serial on the same silver sticker. Getting the KSSS42QJW number exactly right matters more on an older cabinet, where parts diverged between otherwise identical-looking siblings.

The KSSS42QJW is discontinued, but age alone does not decide it. Most of what fails on a KSSS42QJW is a wear component priced in tens of dollars rather than hundreds, and those repairs stay worthwhile. The exception is the sealed system, where the cost sits close to what the cabinet is worth, and we check the parts position before quoting either way.

With the refrigerator switched off at its supply, the condenser coils and condenser fan on a KSSS42QJW 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 KSSS42QJW produces exactly the same symptom, so both are checked together.

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