Kenmore Serial Number Lookup: Appliances & Water Heaters

Kenmore/Sears appliances only when model begins with one of the documented maker prefixes 106, 110, 198, 664, 665.

The maker prefix comes from the model number, not the serial. The serial does not reveal the complete model. Week 01–53; no conversion to an exact manufacture day. Numeric year codes have historic 1970s/1980s alternatives for pre-acquisition Whirlpool systems. 2023–2026 letters are verified by AppliancePartsPros’ named technician; 2019–2022 directly corroborated by manufacturer manual. Source-prefix interpretation is not a model decoder. Water heaters, HVAC and commercial MXR washers excluded.

Kenmore/Sears appliances only when model begins with one of the documented maker prefixes 362, 363.

The maker prefix comes from the model number, not the serial. The serial does not reveal the complete model. Year codes repeat. All documented candidate years are shown; the newest year is not selected automatically. GE chart inconsistently lists 1972 under both N and R, 1973 under both P and S; both entries are retained as printed in the source chart. No factory/model inference from first two letters.

Kenmore appliances only when model starts 253, 417, 790. North American Frigidaire/Electrolux and matching documented WCI-family major appliances using the 10-character format.

The manufacturer route is identified from the MODEL prefix, never the serial. The decade is not encoded. Product letter codes may vary by era and family; they are appliance-type clues, not model identity. Excludes Frigidaire HVAC, General Motors-era Frigidaire and non-North-American systems. Factory code is shown without an invented location.

Kenmore appliances only when model starts 795, 796. LG major home appliances using the YMM-leading alphanumeric serial, including compatible historic LG/GoldStar-era layouts when verified by the appliance label.

The manufacturer route is identified from the MODEL prefix, never the serial. A one-digit year cannot establish a decade. This is not an exact model, country or capacity decoder; arbitrary remaining letters are not mapped to factories without product-specific documentation.

Kenmore appliances only when model starts 401, 402. Samsung appliance/electronics serials that follow the manufacturer warranty-document tail format: year, month, five-unit digits and optional final control letter.

The manufacturer route is identified from the MODEL prefix, never the serial. Earlier and current warranty charts reuse some year codes; both interpretations are retained. The same letter can mean 2005 or 2025. Do not assume every Samsung product has a fixed eighth-position date. Neither model nor exact factory is derived.

Water heaters only after confirmation of this manufacturer, product family, date-code layout and documented era.

YYWW: first two digits year; next two production week. The 2024 manufacturer guide permits week 53. No model, capacity, fuel or installation date is encoded by these four digits. 2008 is a conservative supported-range limit, not an asserted universal changeover. The October 2016 SAP change uses a 13-character printed date-plus-serial. A bare nine-digit barcode/SAP serial has NO date code and is deliberately not decoded. The supplied historical inspection chart lists additional names, but that relationship does not prove the manufacturer of every product bearing the same brand. This option requires independent confirmation from the unit label or model-specific documentation.

Confirm that this is a water heater and that its rating plate or model-specific manufacturer documentation uses this exact numbering family. A historical brand list or a matching serial shape alone is insufficient.

Water heaters only after confirmation of this manufacturer, product family, date-code layout and documented era.

Manufacturer/CPSC notices document the A-L/M month series with I omitted: L 07 is November 2007; M 07 December 2007. This rule is intentionally limited to the observed 2004-2007 family. The supplied historical inspection chart lists additional names, but that relationship does not prove the manufacturer of every product bearing the same brand. This option requires independent confirmation from the unit label or model-specific documentation.

Confirm that this is a water heater and that its rating plate or model-specific manufacturer documentation uses this exact numbering family. A historical brand list or a matching serial shape alone is insufficient.

Water heaters only after confirmation of this manufacturer, product family, date-code layout and documented era.

The January-June 2004 recall serial-prefix table includes a leading plant character before the month. Do not strip an arbitrary leading letter from every later serial. The supplied historical inspection chart lists additional names, but that relationship does not prove the manufacturer of every product bearing the same brand. This option requires independent confirmation from the unit label or model-specific documentation.

Confirm that this is a water heater and that its rating plate or model-specific manufacturer documentation uses this exact numbering family. A historical brand list or a matching serial shape alone is insufficient.

Water heaters only after confirmation of this manufacturer, product family, date-code layout and documented era.

Archived State manufacturer FAQ lists 1991-2002 and A-L with I included, I=September. This differs from later skip-I formats; do not combine the month tables. The supplied historical inspection chart lists additional names, but that relationship does not prove the manufacturer of every product bearing the same brand. This option requires independent confirmation from the unit label or model-specific documentation.

Confirm that this is a water heater and that its rating plate or model-specific manufacturer documentation uses this exact numbering family. A historical brand list or a matching serial shape alone is insufficient.