The KTRC22KMBL is a KitchenAid refrigerator. It was on KitchenAid’s US product site from June 2004 to August 2004 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 KTRC22KMBL01, KTRC22KMBL03, KTRC22KMBL04, KTRC22KMBL05. A plate reading one of those is still a KTRC22KMBL; 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 KTRC22KMBL 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 August 2004
- Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KTRC22KMBL01, KTRC22KMBL03, KTRC22KMBL04, KTRC22KMBL05
- A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record
Most Common Issues on This Model
Handle, hinge and door-closer wear from years of daily use
Blocked defrost drain leaving water under the crispers or running out onto the floor
Loss of refrigerant charge, the fault that decides whether an old cabinet is worth keeping
Defrost drain freezing solid, which puts meltwater under the crisper drawers instead of down the drain