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KitchenAid Refrigerator

KitchenAid KSSS42QKW

Model # KSSS42QKW

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KitchenAid sold the KSSS42QKW as part of its US refrigerator range. It was on KitchenAid’s US product site from February 2002 to June 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 — 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 KSSS42QKW00, KSSS42QKW01, KSSS42QKW02. A plate reading one of those is still a KSSS42QKW; 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 KSSS42QKW 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 June 2003
  • Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KSSS42QKW00, KSSS42QKW01, KSSS42QKW02
  • 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

E1

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

E2

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

HI or LO

KitchenAid Undercounter Refrigerator, Wine Cellar and Beverage Center HI or LO Error Code

Over Temp

KitchenAid Undercounter Wine Cellar Over Temp Alert

F8 E3

KitchenAid French Door Refrigerator F8 E3 Error Code

F8 E8

KitchenAid French Door Refrigerator F8 E8 Error Code

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FAQ

KitchenAid KSSS42QKW FAQ

KitchenAid gives the location for its refrigerators as inside the refrigerator, on the left wall, and that is where the KSSS42QKW 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 KSSS42QKW sits in a family of very similar numbers.

Sometimes, yes - a discontinued model like the KSSS42QKW can mean waiting on a specialist supplier for an obsolete part. We establish that on a KSSS42QKW 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 KSSS42QKW means the defrost cycle is not completing - the heater, the defrost thermostat or the control that times it. Left alone on a KSSS42QKW, that ice eventually blocks the airflow the fresh food compartment depends on.

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