Maytag refrigerator repair in Kansas City
Maytag refrigeration ran through the Amana plant in the years before the Whirlpool deal, then moved onto Whirlpool's bottom-mount and French-door platforms. The design detail that drives most calls is the ice maker Maytag put up in the fresh-food door rather than in the freezer.
What goes wrong with Maytag refrigerators
- In-door ice maker stops while the freezer is fine
- The ice box in the door is fed cold air through a duct that runs up the hinge side. When that duct or its fan ices up, the freezer holds temperature and the ice maker slowly quits. We check the duct and fan before touching the ice maker module.
- Left door sagging and sweating
- The in-door ice compartment adds real weight to one door. Over time the hinge cam wears, the door drops a fraction, and the gasket stops sealing at the top corner. You see condensation on the liner and the compressor running longer than it should.
- Water under the crisper drawers
- The defrost drain in the floor of the freezer section ices closed, so melt water backs up and runs forward. Clearing the trough and fitting the drain clip that keeps the tube warm is the actual repair, not just mopping it out.
Before you call
If a Maytag with a door ice maker slows down, pull the ice box and look at the air duct at the hinge before buying an ice maker. Post-2006 units take Whirlpool part numbers, which keeps that repair cheap.
Pricing
$225 to $375 for fan, defrost and control work; $450 to $900 for compressor or sealed-system repairs. The $109 diagnostic is credited to the repair when you approve the written quote.
General symptoms and what each usually means are in our refrigerator repair guide. More on the brand: Maytag appliance repair.
Book a repair
Call before noon on a weekday and a technician can usually be at your home the same afternoon, anywhere in the 83 communities we cover.