We have a 17 year old Kitchenaid superba double oven. We learned long ago not to use the self clean feature. Last night we tried to broil something. The oven stopped working and -FE- showed up on the screen, just those letters, no numbers. I could not find what that stood for, so I decided to reboot, and cut off the oven at the circuit breaker, waited a minute and clicked the breaker back. Now the oven is just plain dead, no sign of power anywhere. We are going to replace it anyway, but would prefer to fix this, if possible, so we can take our time. Where is the most likely place to start looking?
I’d try to open it up to get to the controller circuit board, and undo and reconnect all the connectors I could find. Might get lucky and it’s just a little corrosion in a connector.
It could also be solder joints that have failed. Re-flowing the solder can fix that, again if you can get to the circuit board.
Or it could be the components on the board, and neither of the above will help.
Kitchenaid fault codes. I don’t see a FE code.
There is a known issue with the self cleaning cycle overheating and frying the control panel. I’d suggest checking the parts places and see what a new panel would cost. Service manuals, and support forums are available at the online parts places. Appliancepartspros.com is one that I’ve used. It doesn’t cost you anything to at least check prices and decide if it’s worth it. There’s a ribbon cable that connects the control panel.
Go to the web site, enter your Kitchenaid model number and see what parts are available. You can probably find the service manual by google kitchenaid model #
Unfortunately labor costs make hiring someone for a repair like this done prohibitive. But if you’re comfortable with following directions in a service manual it’s certainly a repair you can make yourself.
Well, this video is exactly what the OP asked for. Kitchenaid Superba oven that failed to come on after a clean cycle. Worth a look. He’s got some good suggestions on getting it apart.
On one of the appliance message boards I visit (that has a let of repair pros on it) they’re constantly saying to NEVER use the self cleaning on an oven because it’ll eventually malfunction and ruin something.
Also, never, ever, ever self clean the oven less then two days before a major holiday when you have people coming over. The shop owners on that board say they bring on a few extra employees just to ruin around they day before and the day of Thanksgiving and Christmas and pry open ovens the had the lock mechanism get stuck during a self clean cycle.
Anyways, the message board you can ask around on, if you need the help is, http://appliantology.org/, specifically Appliance Repair Tech Forum - Appliantology.org - A Master Samurai Tech Appliance Repair Dojo
Make sure you have your exact model number, they get weird about that.
The OP may luck out and it’s just one of the thermal fuses. Which is what the guy fixed in the youtube video I posted. The Kitchenaid Superba had three thermal fuses and he had to replace two of them to get the oven working.
It would be worth calling a repairman for a cheap fix like that. It all depends on how comfortable the OP feels about doing it themselves.
The repair guy in the video had a very good point about the oven door gasket. I hadn’t considered that before. But he’s correct that the worn door gasket could be letting hot air escape directly into the air vents. <shrug> makes sense to me anyway. 
That could be why his oven overheated and blew those thermal fuses.
Yes, we had had the oven die after the first two times we ran the self clean cycle (under warranty) and never tried to do it again. We almost never broil but did last night, and it died. Since we have never liked this oven, I won’t pay to have someone come in, but did order the thermal fuse, and will see if I can do that myself. If not, we will live without one until we replace.
Thanks for the youtube link. This will make things lots easier.
Huh. I just bought a house and yesterday the Kitchen Aid oven died as well (annoying). Got an F02 error, which apparently is a dead key pad.
Thing is 20 years old, so may as well replace it. Annoying, as we haven’t even moved in yet.
I may try opening it up and seeing if there is a connection to the keypad that came loose. If not, I don’t think its repairable, as from what I can find the part is no longer available.
Maybe an Iron deficiency.
My double oven is dying bit by bit, and at about 25 years old, replacement parts are no longer available.
I’d replace the whole thing, but of course ovens no longer come in that width, so there’s going to have to be some cabinet work involved.
I believe it stands for “Fooked, Ennit?”
I wonder if th display is cooked and it’s really trying to show F8, which is a control board failure.
I interpreted it as fatal error. I must admit that FE and F8 are very similar in the old fashioned readout that it has. I might have even misread it.
I closed on my house and when I went into paint the furnace went out. Two weeks later the microwave went on the fritz and six month later there was corrosion in the electrical box. All of which were taken care of by the home warranty that they gave me for free with the house. I never would have gotten a home warranty on my own but after having it free for a year I decided to renew it just for the piece of mind.
That’s a really, really despicable thing to do on a thread like this, and I’m sickened that you beat me to it.