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(More customer reviews)DON'T BUY IT! I was smitten with the concept and when Home Depot had a floor model on sale for half price, I jumped on it. Well, pretty as it is, it did NOT clean dishes! I had had a Maytag DW for 17 years (very small household) and for 16 years it worked perfectly. I went again for the Maytag name. Didn't work!
Maytag sent 3 different technicians to check it out, and none of them could find anything "wrong" with it. They replaced the rotors just to make sure. I was told maybe my water was too hard (same place as previous 17-year success record with previous DW). I was told to run a vinegar wash (strange to have to do this after only 2 months but I did it anyway). I was told to try a different detergent (Cascade gel wasn't good enough?) I was told to try more detergent, less detergent, blah blah blah. Whatever I tried, I loaded it sparsely and on average, 2/3 to 3/4 of the dishes came out clean and the remainder were dirty: spots, dried food, detergent film on dishes and utensils and glasses, coffee stains on mugs, etc. Even running a second time didn't help - I had to re-wash them by hand! I have a collapsible vegetable steamer that had dried food stains on it from the Maytag after running it through 2 cycles, and just for fun, I put it in the F-P and it came out sparkling clean!
Also, there are no indicators to tell you where you are in the cycle, which took 4+ hours to complete - no heated drying so the fan blows forever. Even so, I'd take mugs & glasses out and water dripped from the bottoms onto me and my other "clean" dishes. You could not program a delayed start any less or more than 6 hours. The dish racks are not collapsible, the glasses & mugs racks are not adjustible, the overall configuration was very difficult to deal with. Large bowls and pots? Fuhgeddaboutit! Wash them by hand!
Finally I got the store to refund my money and pick it up. I bought a Fisher & Paykel similar model (DD24DCHTX6) online from Home Everything. It has the following superior features:
1) It cleans the dishes!
2) It's really quiet
3) It has LED display with easy on/off/start/pause and progress indicator icons and timer countdown. I selected the model with built-in water softener, just in case...
4) The tines of the dish racks are collapsible, the glassware racks are adjustible up & down & out of the way, the utensil rack is more intelligently placed
5) The upper drawer seems to be deeper than the Maytag, so you can truly actually fit your large plates
6) The dish racks are angled so easier to load & secure the dishes, and water can more easily reach everything you've loaded
7) (This really impressed me) There are no little pools of questionable water in the upside-down bottom wells of mugs and stemware that normally drench your nice clean dishes (and you) when you try to remove them.
8) The list price is actually cheaper than the Maytag!
Note, the F-P user guide is very comprehensive, while the Maytag was bare-bones. Note, the F-P clearly indicates that you must use powdered detergent, not liquid. Nowhere in the Maytag literature did it mention this. I used liquid gel, I tried dropping a pressed powder cube in the bottom and neither worked well. (The F-P also states that you should not use the pressed powder cubes in it).
All in all, I love the F-P which I've had installed and used every other day for about a week now. I am so relieved and impressed with its relative performance I pray it continues to do its good job for years to come. The mfr.'s "August delivery & installation allowance" gave me a $50 rebate. So far, I highly recommend the F-P, and don't waste your money on this Maytag!
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