KitchenAid refrigerator
showing Temperature Alarm
This alarm goes off when the refrigerator has been warmer than 48°F, or the freezer warmer than 15°F, for longer than 90 minutes.
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- Service indication
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What Temperature Alarm
actually means.
This alarm goes off when the refrigerator has been warmer than 48°F, or the freezer warmer than 15°F, for longer than 90 minutes. The sound stops once temperatures recover, yet the light keeps flashing until it is acknowledged, so it can be reporting a warm spell that is already over, such as a power outage. If temperatures do not recover, cooling is falling behind and the food is at risk.
KitchenAid refrigerator display · also shown as Over Temperature
What to do when Temperature Alarm shows on the refrigeratorKind of codeService indication
A light or a message asking for a visit. It says that something wants attention, not what, so the visit starts with a diagnosis.
Usually leads toDiagnostic visit
The visit that decides what the repair actually is, before any part is ordered.
Shows up asRefrigerator Showing an Error Code
A code narrows the search, but only the manufacturer's own table gives it meaning.
MakeKitchenAid
French door and built-in refrigeration from the Whirlpool family, with dispensers on most models.
SourceKitchenAid Product Help (producthelp.kitchenaid.com): Temperature Alarm - Refrigerator
Freestanding models label it Temperature Alarm; built-in models use an Over Temperature light and reset button with the same thresholds.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from KitchenAid's own guidance for Temperature Alarm on its refrigerators. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Check the food: perishables that sat warm for hours need a look before they are used.
Ask whether there was an outage, a door left open or a large load of warm groceries recently.
Press the Alarm (or Over Temperature Reset) button, then watch the temperatures over the next few hours.
If the compartments stay warm or the alarm keeps returning, arrange a visit.
What not to do
It is not a sensor or filter reminder. It says the cabinet really was warm, not what made it warm.
What you may
notice with it.
The refrigerator problem Temperature Alarm tends to arrive with. Answer these at the refrigerator before anyone is booked.
All problems
Read these
before the visit.
Short guides that make the call quicker and the diagnosis cheaper.
All guidesKitchenAid
refrigerators.
French door and built-in refrigeration from the Whirlpool family, with dispensers on most models.
KitchenAid refrigerator repairMore KitchenAid codes
Service indication on other makes
Built-in refrigerator
Flush with the cabinets, serviced from the front, and almost always repaired rather than replaced.
French door refrigerator
Two fresh-food doors over a freezer drawer — the most common premium layout, and the one with the most to go wrong at the door line.
Side-by-side refrigerator
Full-height freezer beside full-height fresh food, with the ice maker and dispenser built into the freezer door.
In KitchenAid's own words
… the refrigerator temperature rises above 48°F (9°C) or the freezer temperature rises above 15°F (-9°C) for more than 1¹⁄₂ hours.
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Freestanding models label it Temperature Alarm; built-in models use an Over Temperature light and reset button with the same thresholds.
KitchenAid Temperature Alarm refrigerator repair,
where we come out.
The same visit in every metro below: the code, the model number, and a diagnosis before any part is ordered.
All service areasTampa BayFL · 31 areas
Miami / South FloridaFL · 47 areas
New York MetroNY · 75 areas
HoustonTX · 36 areas
ChicagoIL · 50 areas
Los AngelesCA · 95 areas
San DiegoCA · 31 areas
Questions
about Temperature Alarm.
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Back to your everyday
Still showing Temperature Alarm?
Book with the exact characters, the full model number, and whether it is still cooling — on a code, that is the whole starting point.