Is your oven taking longer than it should to cook your meals? Have you been following all cooking instructions to the letter - selecting the right temperature and leaving your food in for exactly as long as you're told - only to find that, when you open the door, everything is still lukewarm and half-raw? If so, the problem may be that your oven isn't getting hot enough. Just because you're turning the knob to 200°C, doesn't mean that the oven is actually reaching that temperature. Most common reason is the temperature sensor on an electric wall oven. Today we will help you to replace the temperature sensor on KitchenAid koce500ess. It’s a simple guide.
- Shut off electricity, disconnect all cords from the oven. You can even use a circuit breaker.
- Remove the oven racks. Find the temperature sensor probe in the top left corner of the back wall of the oven interior. Using a 1/4-inch nut driver, remove the 2 hex head screws from the base of the temperature sensor probe.
- Carefully pull the oven temperature sensor probe forward into the oven interior. The wires connected to the probe have enough slack that you can pull it a just few inches—far enough to disconnect the wires. As you pull, use needle-nose pliers to guide the wire harness connector through the hole in the oven wall.
- Holding the connector with needle-nose pliers, depress the locking tab on the plug and disconnect the plug from the sensor probe. Don't let the connector slip back through the hole, or you must remove the back panel of the oven to retrieve it.
- While holding the connector with a pair of needle-nose pliers, snap it into the plug of the new probe. Push the wire into the back wall of the oven. Position the new sensor probe and line up the holes for the mounting screws. Insert the mounting screws and tighten firmly using a nut driver.
- Turn on the electricity to the wall oven.
Done! If you still have a problem with the heating oven, don’t hesitate to contact our customer support and arrange a meeting!
