
KitchenAid sold the KTLA22EMSS as part of its US refrigerator range. It was on KitchenAid’s US product site from June 2004 to December 2005 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. 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 KTLA22EMSS00. A plate reading one of those is still a KTLA22EMSS; 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 KTLA22EMSS 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 June 2004 to December 2005
- Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KTLA22EMSS00
- A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record
Most Common Issues on This Model
Sagging doors and worn hinge cams, which stop the seal meeting the cabinet squarely
Drain blockage at the back of the freezer floor - a routine clear rather than a sealed-system job
Sealed-system problems - a refrigerant leak or a restriction - the one fault worth weighing carefully against the value of the cabinet
A defrost cycle that has stopped running, so ice builds behind the freezer back panel until airflow chokes
