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Originally Posted by Pturner
Hey Boomer,
My less-than-year-old Maytag Quiet Series 400 dishwasher is starting to offend me too. Sometimes, it just won't turn on. I called Maytag and was told to unplug it for a few minutes and plug it back in. That worked, but now I have to do that every time I use it. Imagine having to reboot your dishwasher. Did Bill Gates buy Maytag?
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Ohhhhh, Pturner,
Be really careful. The door latch mechanism might be plotting against you, if there was no redesign since the 300 Series.
My offensive dishwasher, that started this whole thread -- and more, is a Maytag Quiet Series 300. My daughter Boomette has one, too, and the latch is behaving badly. Also in this thread there are other mentions of that same series of Maytag.
Bosch almost won the replacement dishwasher competition. But then the $150 latch repair somehow morphed into an, "Oh what the heck, might as well redo the kitchen."
The kitchen in our perfect-size-for-geezers ranch style house, that we downsized to 6 years ago, is a small kitchen, only 12X12. It was trapped in an older design and the space dictated by the old cabinets left room only for a too-small refrigerator.
And so, suddenly, I am picking out cabinets for Mr. Boomer to install and we find ourselves shopping for a stove and refrigerator, too. (The Amana refrigerator that is too small, but still works fine, will get a new home in the basement.)
So away we went on our appliances recon mission. (Ain't retirement grand. We could dedicate entire mornings to looking for appliances and then go out to lunch.)
Electrolux won because all the appliances hit the features we liked. And also it won on appearance, which is a personal choice I know. That French door refrigerator sure looked purdy to me. I hope it lives up to its looks.
One of the things I was after was the Electrolux stove which has two ovens in the stove with the smaller one on the bottom. It is an actual oven and not a warming drawer. I think the top temp is 400 degrees, might be 450 - it's not here yet. Because the kitchen is small, a stove like this can help a lot. No room for a wall-oven. We also have an OTR (Over-the-Range) microwave due to space limitations.
So that is how Electrolux won. All of the appliances worked together best for redoing the whole kitchen. There is also some attention to detail on the look of them that lured us into thinking maybe the insides had been given attention to detail, too. But who knows? Only time will tell on that one. And Electrolux pricing is annoying, to say the least. Marketing strategy? They do a little smoke and mirrors rebating if you can catch it just right. But that is pretty much it. For two months, I walked away from Electrolux, but kept coming back to it.
And now a little more digressing about kitchen stuff.....Somewhere here there is a thread where somebody is asking about how they can repaint those cream colored cabinets that are in a lot of the homes on the historic side of TV. Welllll, I wanted to leap into that thread and say, "STOP! Embrace your light cabinets! They are in again! Guess what I just ordered!"
We stayed on the historic side recently (which I like for a lot of reasons) and I know the cabinets. Only now the finish is called things like "Biscotti with Cocoa Glaze."
And that, for anybody who read this far, is the latest episode in the continuing saga of the broken Maytag dishwasher latch.
Boomer