The KSSS48FTX is a US-market KitchenAid refrigerator. It appears on KitchenAid’s US product site in May 2011 and nowhere after that. That dates the machine to around then: discontinued, and now getting on for fifteen 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 KSSS48FTX00, KSSS48FTX02. A plate reading one of those is still a KSSS48FTX; the suffix identifies which production revision you have, and it occasionally decides which version of a part fits. A cabinet of this vintage is past the point where the door seal, the evaporator fan and the defrost components are as-new, and those account for most of what a KSSS48FTX is called out for. Since the model is discontinued, we settle what can still be supplied for it before the work is quoted.
Key Features
- No published specification for this model was recovered
- Recorded on KitchenAid's US product site in May 2011
- Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KSSS48FTX00, KSSS48FTX02
- A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record
Most Common Issues on This Model
Lighting and door-switch problems, worth ruling out before anything is assumed about the cooling side
Cracked door bins and shelf trim, ordinary wear on a cabinet of this age
A door seal gone stiff, letting warm room air track in along one edge
A control reading the cabinet wrongly, so the compressor runs far longer or far shorter than it should