I have a 5 quart mixer so smaller. I got it on Christmas Eve in 2020. $199, it looks like they’ve gone up in price quite a bit. Or it was on deep discount that late in the season.
LOVE this look!
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There is a beautiful BOYSENBERRY colored KA for sale on my local marketplace page right now - $200. Says it’s a couple of years old and lightly used.
When I bought mine on marketplace (see post a couple above) I was lucky to be on FB right when it got posted. The seller told me she could have sold it 10x in the next 15 minutes after I claimed it!
Thought of this thread today; after almost 2 years, they’re almost finished with our kitchen rebuild from the water damage. I decided to tackle the grease on the mixer today. Just a reminder it may be time to redo the grease 
All pretty again
Still haven’t painted it, but I’m thinking about giving it to DD when she graduates, so I’ll let her pick the color when she gets her 1st post college apartment. At least it’s all cleaned, polished and ready for the holidays.
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Lol I didn’t even know my mixer has grease. Something to look into.
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I somehow have an unused 22 yo one in my closet
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I didn’t either and have never done any kind of maintenance on mine. I received it 35 years ago and it still works perfectly.
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I only looked into it because it was in the hot garage last summer when they gutted the floors, and I noticed some grease leaking. Apparently you’re supposed to change it regularly; mine is 41 years old,and it had never been done. I will say it was pretty easy, just time consuming. I ordered the grease from Amazon. It sounds soooo much better than it has over the last several holiday seasons. I’m excited to start baking. I need to make a Halloween birthday cake next week, so 
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I have never heard this!!
@ChoatieMom i believe has cleaned up her kitchen aid…don’t know about the grease part but definitely has painted!
Here is the YT series I used; it’s 3, 15 minute videos, and the link to the subsequent video is at the end of each. I think I went through a roll of paper towels. I’m OCD, so I thoroughly cleaned out all the old stuff with toothpicks, q tips and a soft toothbrush.
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I didn’t even know you could open it up.
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I had no idea.
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Oops…wrong thread!
I also changed out the grease in my Kitchenaid recently. It had run hot while mixing a particularly dense batch of dough and after that some grease had been coming down the mounting post.
The job for me was a little fussier and more difficult than the videos, probably b/c mine hadn’t been disassembled for 30 years and some parts required a lot of force to remove. I had to buy some nail punches and apply penetrating oil and a lot of healthy whacks with a hammer to get one friction-fit post out.
The grease on mine turned out to be in decent shape once I got it open. Honestly it looks like @Tigerwife92 mixer was in pretty good shape too. Don’t be too fooled by the color - the grease used to be brown, but KA switched to white because apparently consumers were getting freaked out by the color when it would leak (possibly apocryphal).
Oh, and that round stainless steel band just above where the mixing arm mounts is actually designed to catch melted, dripping grease from inside. It should be cleaned regularly (who knew?). Mine had filled up, which is why a little grease was coming down the post.
Anyway, I haven’t used it since but it did seem to run quieter during testing afterwards. Here’s the grease I used:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08BDG1B3C/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Mine definitely took some muscle to disassemble; luckily I had tools. Overall it took about 3-4 hours to get it apart and clean it thoroughly. If I wasn’t OCD, I could’ve been finished in under 2 
since my mixer had never been serviced in 41 years, the packing grease had solidified. Luckily it leaked and I checked it, or it probably would’ve burned out the motor. I know kitchenaid will service them for a hefty fee, so it was definitely worth the $10 jar of grease and some time and elbow grease.
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Well done! Your daughter is lucky. DS did this to refurbish a KA mixer for his GF. With no expertise, he followed youtube directions and had great results. I also knew nothing about this process until he described it.
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I upgraded to the one with the bowl lift last Xmas but y’all are inspiring me to give a new life (and color?) to my original one!
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Wirecutter did a summary of Prime Day sales that continue, including various colors of the KitchenAid Artisan Series 5 Quart Tilt Head Stand Mixer with Pouring Shield
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005PMEHBG/
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Mine is probably 20 years old and I have used it maybe 5-6 times.
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