Finding the age of your appliance
Find the age of your appliance by brand:
How to find the age of your Amana appliance
You will need to find your serial/model tag and record the numbers and letters on this, then looking at the first four numbers you should be able to work out the manufacture date. The format is yyww For example:
You might be interestedIf the first four numbers were 9912, this translates as the 12th week of 99 (March 1999)
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If it is a newer model and starts with two letters instead of numbers it may follow the Maytag serial format.
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How to find the age of your GE appliance
You will need to find your serial/model tag and record the numbers and letters on this to find your appliance age from the lists below. `GE USA
The date code is in the letters on your serial number. The first two letters on the serial tag give you Month, Year.
Example serial number: LT221102
LT221102 – L = month – June
LT221102 – T = year 1986 or 1998
LT was built June 1998 or June 1986
Date codes – First letter is the month and the second letter is the year.
Letter Month Letter Year A January G 1980 & 1992 D February H* 1981 & 1993 F March L 1982 & 1994 G April M 1983 & 1995 H May R 1984 & 1996 L June S 1985 & 1997 M July T 1986 & 1998 R August V 1987 & 1999 S September Z 1988 & 2000 T October A 1989 & 2001 V November D 1990 & 2002 Z December F 2003 G 2004 H* 2005
* The same twelve easily distinguishable letters of the alphabet will be used and repeated in a twelve year cycle
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GE Canadian
The date code is in the letters on your serial number. The first two letters on the serial tag give you Month, Year.
Example serial number: MS731902A
The first 2 letters show the manufacturing date.
MS731902A shows the month made – July
MS731902A shows the year made – 1997
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The above appliance with serial # MS731902A was made in July 1997.
Month Letter Year May H 1993 June L 1994 July M 1995 August R 1996 September S 1997 October T 1998 November V 1999 December Z 2000 January A 2001 February D 2002 March F 2003 April G 2004 May H 2005
* The same twelve easily distinguishable letters of the alphabet will be used and repeated in a twelve year cycle
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How to find the age of your Frigidaire appliance
Frigidaire makes White/Westinghouse, Tappan, Frigidaire, Kelvinator.
You will need to find your serial/model tag and record the numbers and letters on this, then look at your serial number and work out the age like so.
Example serial number:
NF11910958 = NF( where the product was made)
NF11910958 – 1 = made in 2001
NF11910958 – 19 = 19th week in that year
This washer looks to be made in April of 2001
Example #2 serial number:
LA84501552
LA84501552 = year, this could be 1988 or 1998. If the appliance looks 10 years old it is probably 1988. If the appliance only looks to be a couple of years old, probably 1998 is more likely.
LA84501552 – 45 = 45th week of either 1998 or 1988
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How to find which manufacturer made your Kenmore or Sears appliance.
Kenmore (Sears), being a department store brand do not make their own appliances. Instead they contract the work out, so their appliances are made by many different manufacturers, and you will need to check your model number to see which manufacturer made your model. Choose from the lists below, to match the first three digits of your model number.
Amana Caloric D&M Fedders GE Gibson, Frigidaire 596 174 960 587 484 363 362 253 Jenn-air Kelvinator, Frigidaire Litton Maycor Roper Speed Queen 629 417 662 628 747 925 103 647 835 911 155 278* 651 Tappan, Frigidaire Toshiba WCI, Frigidaire Whirlpool 791 562 790 106 110 562 665 198
*278 is a Roper built range, but parts are available from GE
The list below is a fuller list in numeric order, with part numbers starting with C being the Canadian models.
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Prefix Manufacturer Prefix Manufacturer 103. Roper 586. Panasonic 106. Whirlpool 587. DM (Frigidaire) C106. Inglis 596. Amana 110. Whirlpool 622. Kelvinator (Frigidaire) C110. Inglis 628. Kelvinator (Frigidaire) 119. Frigidaire 629. Jenn Air 143. SFS Corp. (Sanyo/Fisher) C646. Admiral (Inglis) 144. Trane 647. Roper 155. Preway 651. Speed Queen 174. Caloric 664. Whirlpool 175. In-Sink-Erator 665. Whirlpool 198. Whirlpool 666. KitchenAid 233. Broan C675. Woods 253. Gibson (Frigidaire) 683. Philco Italy? 274. RCA 719. Tappan (Frigidaire) 278. Roper 721. Goldstar (LGÂ Electronics) 292. Lennox 747. Litton 335. Amana 757. Marvel, Imperial 336. Electrolux 789. Defiance 342. York 790. WCI (Frigidaire) 362. GE 791. Tappan (Frigidaire) C362. Camco 835. Roper 363. GE 840. Friedrich C363. Camco 850. Whirlpool (Chambers?) 401. Samsung 867. Keeprite 416. Carrier 879. Rheem/Ruud 417. Kelvinator (Frigidaire) C880. Admiral (Inglis) 464. GE 911. Roper 473. Hoover 917. Roper (Whirlpool) 484. Fedders, Whirlpool 925. Maycor (Maytag) 562. Toshiba C933. Kelvinator (Before 1970) 564. Sanyo 934. Hitachi 565. Sanyo C938. Keeprite 566. Sanyo 960. Caloric 568. Panasonic 970. Frigidaire 575. Sharp C970. Kelvinator (1970+) 580. Goldstar (LG Electronics) C978. Camco
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How to find the age of your KitchenAid appliance
You will need to find your serial/model tag and record the numbers and letters on this, then looking at the first four digits you should be able to work out the manufacture date.
Serial example – XL1601009 Break this up to take the first 4 digits i.e. XL16
2001, the 16th week
X is factory where the product was made. L is the year ( J = 1999, K = 2000, L = 2001, M = 2002, N =2003, etc) 16 = week produced.
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How to find the age of your Maytag appliance
Maytag owns Maytag, Jenn-Air, MagicChef.
You will need to find your serial/model tag and record the numbers and letters on this.
Example serial number: 15114672UY
15114672UY – UY is the date code. The first letter is the year – U = 1998. The second letter is the month – Y = November. This appliance was made November of 1998.
First letter is the year, second letter is the month.
Year Letter Month
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How to find the age of your Whirlpool appliance
You will need to find your serial/model tag and record the numbers and letters on this.
The date code is the 3rd to last on your model number.
Example model numbers: LRS6233BW1= 1994 , SF367PEYW1= 1992 , LE6685XPW1= 1985 or 2004 , ET22PKXXW0= 1991 , EV150CXKW0 = 1982 or 2001
Letter Year K 1982 or 2001 L 1983 or 2002 M 1984 or 2003 P 1985 or 2004 R 1986 or 2005 S 1987 or 2006 T 1988 or 2007 V 1989 or 2008 W 1990 or 2009 X 1991 or 2010 Y 1992 or 2011 A 1993 or 2012 B 1994 or 2013 D 1995 or 2014 E 1996 or 2015 F 1997 or 2016 G 1998 or 2017 H 1999 or 2018 J 2000 or 2019
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David B. February 22nd, 2010
Posted In: Appliance Age and Manufacturer
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