KitchenAid undercounter ice maker Replace Filter light flashing
KitchenAid's freestanding ice makers turn on Replace Filter at 9 months or 2,000 gallons, and flash it when the filter is not correctly installed.
Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm
- Water supply and fill
- Ice maker water inlet valve repair
- Source: KitchenAid
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What Replace Filter light flashing
actually means.
KitchenAid's freestanding ice makers turn on Replace Filter at 9 months or 2,000 gallons, and flash it when the filter is not correctly installed. A cracked filter or missing O-rings also lead to low ice or thin cubes.
KitchenAid ice maker display
What to do when Replace Filter light flashing shows on the ice makerKind of codeWater supply and fill
The ice maker asked for water and got too little, too slowly or none at all, or water kept arriving after the fill should have ended. A closed shutoff, a kinked line, a clogged filter and low house pressure are ruled out before the water inlet valve is replaced or the fill tube is thawed. If water is on the floor, close the supply valve before reading anything on the display.
Usually leads toIce maker water inlet valve repair
The electric valve that lets water into the ice maker, tested and replaced when it will not open, opens only partway, or keeps dripping after it should have closed.
Shows up asIce Maker Making Small or Hollow Cubes
The ice maker making small cubes, thin crescents, hollow shells with water inside or fragments that break apart in the bin tells you the mold is not getting a full fill.
MakeKitchenAid
KitchenAid ice maker service for the door, the freezer drawer and the water supply that feeds them.
SourceKitchenAid Product Help: Filter Light Blinking - Freestanding Ice Maker
KitchenAid freestanding (built-in or undercounter) ice makers covered by its Product Help pages.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from KitchenAid's own guidance for Replace Filter light flashing on its ice makers. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Turn the filter to the locked position.
Remove it and check it for cracks and missing O-rings; replace it if either is found.
Fit a new filter if it is at 9 months or 2,000 gallons.
If the indicator stays on after a restart, book a visit.
Still there?
It usually turns into ice maker water inlet valve repair. Book with the code and the model number.
What not to do
This light does not measure water quality. An old filter and a loose one look the same on the panel.
What you may
notice with it.
The ice maker problems Replace Filter light flashing tends to arrive with. Answer these at the ice maker before anyone is booked.
All problems
Where Replace Filter light flashing usually leads
Ice maker water inlet valve repair.
KitchenAid
ice makers.
KitchenAid ice maker service for the door, the freezer drawer and the water supply that feeds them.
KitchenAid ice maker repairMore KitchenAid codes
Water supply and fill on other makes
Door ice maker
The ice maker that feeds the dispenser on the outside of a door: tucked into an insulated box in the left door of a French door model, or at the top of the freezer side of a side-by-side, with a chute and an auger carrying cubes to your glass.
Freezer ice maker
The ice maker that sits inside the freezer compartment itself, a tray that twists or a mold with a heater and an ejector, dropping cubes into a bin or drawer you open by hand, with no dispenser on the door.
Undercounter ice maker
A built-in residential ice maker that lives under a kitchen, bar or basement counter, making clear cubes or chewable nugget ice on its own cooling system, with a water line in and a gravity drain or a small drain pump out.
In KitchenAid's own words
The "Replace Filter" light will continue to flash if the filter is not installed correctly.
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. KitchenAid freestanding (built-in or undercounter) ice makers covered by its Product Help pages.
KitchenAid Replace Filter light flashing ice maker 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.
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Miami / South FloridaFL · 47 areas
New York MetroNY · 75 areas
HoustonTX · 36 areas
ChicagoIL · 50 areas
Los AngelesCA · 95 areas
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Questions
about Replace Filter light flashing.
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My KitchenAid ice maker filter is new; why is Replace Filter still flashing?
Can a KitchenAid undercounter unit make ice with a cracked filter?
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Back to your everyday
Still showing Replace Filter light flashing?
Book with the code or the blink pattern written exactly as the ice maker shows it, the full model number, and whether there is any water on the floor — when there is a code, that is where the diagnosis starts.