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title: "Where Viking Hides the Model Number, Appliance by Appliance"
description: "How to find Viking range model number, and where the plate sits on an oven, cooktop, refrigerator, dishwasher and grill — and why the number decides the codes."
url: "https://vikingmiami.support/blog/how-to-find-viking-model-number/"
date_modified: "2026-08-21"
Category: "Common Problems"
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# Where Viking Hides the Model Number, Appliance by Appliance

## How to find Viking range model number, and why we ask first

On most makes the model number tells a technician which part to bring. On this one it also tells us **what the appliance is saying**.

This maker bought and built its controls in different decades and on different continents, and the result is that the same characters mean different things on different machines:

- **E1** is a compressor condition on a single-zone undercounter unit, and is published against a compartment sensor on some two-zone wine cellars.- **E2** is a condenser fan motor on refrigeration and an overheated cooktop on the integrated downdraft top.- **EE** is a controller memory failure on an older beverage center and a technical error on a steam oven.- **FC** in capitals is a key error on a cooktop; **Fc** with a small c is over-temperature.

Without the model number, none of those questions has one answer.

## Where it is, by appliance

| Appliance | Where the plate is |
| --- | --- |
| Range, rangetop | Behind the kickplate at the bottom |
| Undercounter refrigeration, wine, ice | Behind the kickplate, with the condenser |
| Wall oven, microwave, speed oven | Inside the door frame, usually left side |
| Dishwasher | Inside the door frame — carries the date code too |
| Refrigeration column | Upper left interior wall, above the top shelf |
| Cooktop | Under the front lip, or on the underside |
| Range hood | Inside, behind the filters |
| Grill | Inside the cabinet below |

## The date code, and why it is not a detail

A dishwasher's serial plate carries a **date code**, and on this appliance it decides which of two incompatible tables applies. Built before 26 May 2010, the machine marks an X under a row of cycle lights. Built after, it flashes a count on each of two lamps. Reading the wrong table gives a confident, wrong answer.

## Photograph it, do not copy it

Model and serial in one shot, with a torch if the plate is in shadow. These numbers run to nine or ten characters and a single transposed digit sends the wrong part to your house — which costs a second visit rather than a phone call.

On outdoor equipment take that photograph now rather than when something goes wrong. Salt air fades a plate in a few seasons here, and a grill that has been in an island for six years frequently has nothing legible left on it.

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