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KitchenAid KTRS20MH

Model # KTRS20MH

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KitchenAid sold the KTRS20MH as part of its US refrigerator range, recorded by its source as a top-mount refrigerator of 20.4 cu. ft. It appears on KitchenAid’s US product site in January 2000 and nowhere after that. That dates the machine to around then: discontinued, and 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.

KitchenAid printed the colour and finish numbers KTRS20MHBL, KTRS20MHBT, KTRS20MHWH on the same product page as KTRS20MH. An owner whose plate reads one of those is looking at the same cabinet in a different finish, and is on the right page here. At this age the work on a KTRS20MH 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

  • Top-mount refrigerator, freezer above the fresh food compartment
  • 20.4 cu. ft. capacity
  • KitchenAid Superba series
  • Recorded on KitchenAid's US product site in January 2000
  • Colour and finish numbers printed alongside it: KTRS20MHBL, KTRS20MHBT, KTRS20MHWH

Most Common Issues on This Model

01

An interior lamp that has failed, or a door switch that no longer tells the control the door is closed

02

Shelf and bin breakages, which on a discontinued model are worth chasing early

03

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

04

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

Error Codes Common to This Model

CL or LO

KitchenAid Undercounter Beverage Center CL or LO Error Code

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

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FAQ

KitchenAid KTRS20MH FAQ

KitchenAid gives the location for its refrigerators as inside the refrigerator, on the left wall, and that is where the KTRS20MH 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 KTRS20MH sits in a family of very similar numbers.

Production of the KTRS20MH ended long ago. That does not rule out a repair - the wear items on a refrigerator are largely shared across a generation - but it does mean the parts question on a KTRS20MH is settled before any figure is put on the work.

With the refrigerator switched off at its supply, frost behind the freezer back panel on a KTRS20MH means the defrost cycle is not completing - the heater, the defrost thermostat or the control that times it. Left alone on a KTRS20MH, that ice eventually blocks the airflow the fresh food compartment depends on.

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