Our dishwasher is one of the ones recalled by Maytag for a potential fire hazard. They’ve sent us the parts kit (which has a lot of parts), and now I’m supposed to call a local repair outfit and make an appointment to have a repairman install the parts.
But I’m a fairly handy guy, and I hate having to wait around for a repairman to show up. Is there anyone else out there whose dishwasher is part of this recall, and did you have the work done or did you do it yourself? And if you did do it yourself, were there any tricky parts to watch out for?
I don’t have a Maytag, but I would strongly suggest that you let the pro do it. If you do, and for some weird ass reason there is a fire later, Maytag has the perfect defense, you obviously screwed up the recall.
If the pro does it your ass is covered.*
*Yeah, I know the local guy will probably be a mouth breather, and you do better work. We are talking about covering your ass here, not workmanship.
Just curious, are the parts part of the control board?
The reason I’m asking is, I have a Maytag dishwasher story that is worthy of the Pit, but it happened about 7-8 years ago, so a lot of the vitriol has faded.
The shocker was that I had to make an appointment and wait a week and a half for the repair guy. It was a brand new dishwasher. Mouthbreather is a fair description. Then he had to order parts. Which took another week and a half. I called the Maytag hotline at that point and asked is they had heard of Fedex or UPS. In short, they had not.
The new parts did not solve the problem, which was that water was getting into the circuit board of the main controller. Thankfully, Home Depot replaced the whole dishwasher.
The parts kit has a new door liner (biiiiiiggggg piece of plastic), a wiring harness, an insulation blanket, and a few seals and foam gaskets. No sign of an electronics board.
That sounds like the same problem. The root cause was that the door liner and it’s gaskets weren’t keeping the water out of the controller. I could see the water drops on the seven-segment LEDs and all of the LEDs would faintly flicker at the same time like someone was pushing all of the buttons. That’s why the second controller did not solve the problem; the water got in it, too. It only took them 7-8 years to figure it out and issue a recall. I guess someone had to wake up Gordon Jump first. Oh, wait, he died. That’s why it took so long.
I’m going to second the CYA and use the repairman recommendation. If it was incorrectly designed the first time, what are the chances that the fix isn’t 100% right, and that you will end up voiding your warrenty?
We had the same recall. I was actually pretty pleased with how fast the repairs went and how easy it was to schedule it. What annoyed me the most about the whole process was trying to use Maytags phone system. After saying or entering all kinds of info, from address to model to ID number, I ended up repeating the whole thing when I finally got through to a real person. Bleck.