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title: "Where the Rating Plate Hides on a Built-In Dacor"
description: "Dacor model number location: where to find the Dacor rating plate on a column, a French door, a dishwasher, a wall oven, a rangetop and a hood — and how"
url: "https://dacormiami.support/blog/reading-a-dacor-rating-plate/"
date_modified: "2026-09-12"
Category: "Common Problems"
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# Where the Rating Plate Hides on a Built-In Dacor

On most makes the model number tells a parts supplier what to send. On this one it tells a technician what language the appliance speaks.

## Dacor model number location: why it matters more here

Dacor changed hands in September 2016 and the electronics changed underneath. Before it, Dacor's own boards and F-codes. After it, the Samsung platform, C-## strings on ovens and ranges and letter pairs ending in C on dishwashers.

The cabinet shape frequently did not change. So two appliances that look identical across a showroom can need different tables, different boards and different part numbers — and the only thing that separates them is the plate.

## Where to look, appliance by appliance

Refrigeration: inside the cabinet, upper left wall, usually on the liner beside the top shelf. On a column it may be behind the base grille instead.

Dishwasher: along the frame the door closes against, visible the moment the door is open.

Wall oven: along the edge of the door, or on the frame behind it.

Range: behind the kick panel at the base, or under the control panel.

Rangetop: underneath at the front edge. A torch and a mirror, or a phone camera held under the lip.

Hood: inside the canopy with the filters down — which is another reason to take the filters out occasionally.

## Photograph it, do not copy it

These numbers are long, they mix letters and digits, and the characters are small on a plate that has spent ten years in a warm kitchen. A mistyped model number produces a confidently wrong parts order.

A photograph also captures the serial, which is worth having: it narrows the build date on an appliance whose platform changed mid-life.

## When the plate is genuinely unreachable

On a panel-ready column scribed tight into joinery, it sometimes is, and nobody should take a kitchen apart to find it. The original invoice, the kitchen designer's specification, or the appliance registration will carry the model.

Failing all of that, the year the kitchen was fitted places the era closely enough to begin, and the code table can be confirmed from what the display actually shows.

## What we do with it

Two things before anything else. We confirm which code table applies, so the code on your display means what we say it means. And we confirm which parts are correct — and on a legacy machine, whether they still exist at all, which is a conversation worth having before a visit rather than after one.

## What we do with the serial number

The model says what the appliance is. The serial narrows when it was built, and on a make whose platform changed in the middle of several products' lives that is the difference between a confident answer and a careful one.

It matters most on the appliances that straddle the acquisition — a range or a dishwasher bought in 2016 or 2017 could be either generation depending on when it left the factory and how long it sat in a showroom. Photograph both, always. It costs one extra second and it removes the only remaining ambiguity.

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