The KUDS03FSSS is a US-market KitchenAid dishwasher. No published specification for this model was recovered, and none is invented here to fill the space. A single dated capture, August 2007, places it on KitchenAid’s US product site, and nothing after that does.
KitchenAid appends a production-revision code to the base number on the rating plate, and the codes actually observed for this model are KUDS03FSSS1, KUDS03FSSS2, KUDS03FSSS3, KUDS03FSSS4. A plate reading one of those is still a KUDS03FSSS; the suffix identifies which production revision you have, and it occasionally decides which version of a part fits. A machine of that age has had enough cycles for the door seal, the pump and the spray system to have moved on from new, and that is where diagnosis usually starts on a KUDS03FSSS. The KUDS03FSSS is no longer made, so what can actually be obtained for it is the first thing looked at, not the last.
Key Features
- No published specification for this model was recovered
- Recorded on KitchenAid's US product site in August 2007
- Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KUDS03FSSS1, KUDS03FSSS2, KUDS03FSSS3, KUDS03FSSS4
- A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record
Most Common Issues on This Model
A perished door seal, showing as damp on the floor in front of the machine rather than an obvious flood
A heating element that has lost continuity, so the load comes out clean but cold and wet
Spray arm jets and bearings blocked with debris, giving a patchy wash on the upper rack
An inlet valve stuck part open or failed shut, so the machine either overfills or never fills