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KitchenAid KSSS48QDW03

Model # KSSS48QDW03

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The KSSS48QDW03 is a KitchenAid refrigerator, recorded by its source as a 48″ built-in side-by-side refrigerator in the Superba series. KitchenAid’s own US product site was showing it in November 1999, and no later listing for it was recovered. That makes it a long-discontinued cabinet, 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.

KSSS48QDW03 is published here exactly as KitchenAid printed it, with the two-digit production-revision code on the end. The bare base KSSS48QDW was never itself observed in any source, so it is not offered as a model number — the form on your rating plate will be the full KSSS48QDW03 string. At this age the work on a KSSS48QDW03 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

  • 48" 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 November 1999
  • Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KSSS48QDW04, KSSS48QDW05
  • A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record

Most Common Issues on This Model

01

Door gasket hardened with age, so the seal no longer pulls the door tight against the cabinet

02

Temperature sensing wandered out of calibration with age, giving a cabinet that never settles

03

Water supply faults - valve, line or filter housing - on machines plumbed for water

04

Compressor start relay and overload faults, heard as a click every few minutes with no cooling following it

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 KSSS48QDW03 FAQ

Open the fresh food door and look at the left wall - KitchenAid puts the refrigerator model and serial plate inside the refrigerator, on the left wall, and the KSSS48QDW03 is no exception. Having the full KSSS48QDW03 number and the serial to hand is what lets a part be identified before anyone travels out.

Sometimes, yes - a discontinued model like the KSSS48QDW03 can mean waiting on a specialist supplier for an obsolete part. We establish that on a KSSS48QDW03 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, the first things checked on a KSSS48QDW03 are the airflow path from the freezer and the evaporator fan that drives it. A fan that has stopped, or an evaporator frosted over, starves the fresh food side while the freezer carries on as normal. On a KSSS48QDW03 that is component-level work rather than anything to do with the sealed system.

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