KitchenAid Order Filter: time to buy the next ice machine filter
KitchenAid's filter status display has two stages.
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- Water supply
- Ice machine water valve and filter repair
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What Order Filter
actually means.
KitchenAid's filter status display has two stages. Order Filter comes first and simply says a replacement should be bought now; Replace Filter follows when the cartridge should actually be changed.
KitchenAid ice machine display · also shown as Order Filter light
What to do when Order Filter shows on the ice machineKind of codeWater supply
The water side came up short: the trough did not fill in the time allowed, the float or level probe never saw water, or water kept flowing when the inlet valve should have closed. A supply valve left partly shut, a clogged filter cartridge, low building pressure or a sticking inlet valve are the usual causes. Opening the valve fully and fitting a fresh filter clears the simple cases; a valve that hums without passing water is a visit.
Usually leads toIce machine water valve and filter repair
The inlet valve, filter, sump float or level probe and supply line, tested and replaced when water arrives short, dirty or nonstop.
Shows up asIce Machine Error Code or Flashing Light: What It Is Telling You
An ice machine error code may show as a number on a small display, a pattern of blinking lights on the control board, a colored light on the front, or a machine that stops with one indicator flashing.
MakeKitchenAid
In a home with a KitchenAid ice machine under the counter, the visit covers the drain path and the water line as closely as the cabinet itself.
SourceKitchenAid ice maker User Guide W11246207A (Wayback copy)
KitchenAid clear-ice machines with a filter status display, per User Guide W11246207A. Some panels show only Replace Filter.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from KitchenAid's own guidance for Order Filter on its ice machines. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Order a filter that matches your model; KitchenAid names F2WC9I1 for current ice machines.
Keep using the machine as normal until the Replace Filter light comes on.
If output is already dropping, change the filter early, as KitchenAid advises.
Still there?
It usually turns into ice machine water valve and filter repair. Book with the code and the model number.
What not to do
Order Filter is not a water supply problem and does not slow the machine. If ice production has fallen sharply at the same time, look at the filter seating, the supply valve and scale, not at this light.
What you may
notice with it.
The ice machine problems Order Filter tends to arrive with. Answer these at the ice machine before anyone is booked.
All problems
Where Order Filter usually leads
Ice machine water valve and filter repair.
KitchenAid
ice machines.
In a home with a KitchenAid ice machine under the counter, the visit covers the drain path and the water line as closely as the cabinet itself.
KitchenAid ice machine repairMore KitchenAid codes
Water supply on other makes
In KitchenAid's own words
The “Order Filter” status light will be illuminated when it is time to order a replacement filter.
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. KitchenAid clear-ice machines with a filter status display, per User Guide W11246207A. Some panels show only Replace Filter.
KitchenAid Order Filter ice machine 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 Order Filter.
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Back to your everyday
Still showing Order Filter?
A booking with a code goes further when it carries the light or code copied as it appeared, the model and serial off the data plate, and a word on whether cubes still fall into the bin. With those three in hand, our office can match the probable part to your machine the same afternoon.