GE Monogram vs Maytag dishwashers: an incident-report comparison

What this GE Monogram vs Maytag comparison is based on#

The interesting thing about this pair is how little separates the two records, given how differently sized they are. Maytag contributes 228 CPSC SaferProducts incident reports filed between 2011 and 2026. GE Monogram contributes 38, filed between 2011 and 2021 — a sixth as many, over a shorter window. And their top two rows land in nearly the same place.

The heating element takes 29% of the Monogram filings and 23% of the Maytag ones. The control board takes 26% and 25%. The second of those gaps is a single point, which the table marks as noise; the first is six points, which on a 38-report column is about two filings' worth.

Why an agreement across unequal records is worth something#

Two records of similar size agreeing is expected if the underlying machines behave similarly. Two records of very different size agreeing is a slightly stronger signal, because the smaller column had every opportunity to land somewhere else. Thirty-eight filings distributed at random across the components in this table would rarely reproduce another brand's top two rows to within a few points.

That is a modest claim and it should stay modest. It says the two sets of reports are about the same things in roughly the same proportion. It does not say the machines fail at the same rate, because rates need a denominator of machines and neither column has one.

The row where they do part#

Wiring or the power cord is the exception, and it is the only one. Maytag's record names it in 13% of filings — 29 reports — while Monogram's contains a single filing at 3%. That 10-point gap is the widest on the page, and it is asymmetrically evidenced: firm on the Maytag side, a single report on the other.

The honest reading is that Maytag's record contains a substantial wiring component and Monogram's does not contain one at all. Whether that reflects the machines, the wiring, the owners or simply the shortage of Monogram filings is not answerable here.

What is left below the top three#

Very little, on either side. The motor appears in 3% of both columns, which is six Maytag filings and one Monogram filing — the table records no measured difference. Maytag's thermostat or sensor and water valve or line rows are 1% each, three filings apiece. Monogram has no rows at all beyond the four it lists, which is what a 38-report corpus looks like once its two leading components are accounted for.

For anyone using this to anticipate a repair rather than to choose a brand, the two records point the same way: heat and the control board are what has been filed about for both machines, in comparable proportions, with a wiring complaint a realistic addition for a Maytag and unattested for a Monogram. None of it says how often either machine gets there.

GE Monogram vs Maytag dishwashers: what the reports mention#

Both columns are shares of their own corpus, and the corpora differ in size. GE Monogram: CPSC SaferProducts incident reports for GE Monogram dishwashers, 2011-2021, n=38. Maytag: CPSC SaferProducts incident reports for Maytag dishwashers, 2011-2026, n=228. A difference no larger than one report on either side is marked "within one-report noise".

About the corpus: these are CPSC SaferProducts reports — incidents someone chose to report, not units sold — so the shares on this page are shares of the reports and never a failure rate. The corpus is weighted toward safety events: 12,007 of its 20,581 records (58%) are fire, smoke, burn or melt reports, which over-represents the components that burn and under-represents the ones that merely stop working.

GE Monogram dishwashers: the reported component split#

GE Monogram dishwashers — every share in this table is a share of: CPSC SaferProducts incident reports for GE Monogram dishwashers, 2011-2021, n=38.

Shares of reports, not failure rates — see the corpus note above.

Maytag dishwashers: the reported component split#

Maytag dishwashers — every share in this table is a share of: CPSC SaferProducts incident reports for Maytag dishwashers, 2011-2026, n=228.

Shares of reports, not failure rates — see the corpus note above.

How to use these numbers#

What this comparison can settle: which components the reported incidents of each brand actually concentrate on, for this appliance. What it cannot settle: which brand fails more often. That would need units sold, and no public source states it. Use the component split to plan for the repair each brand is most reported for, not to rank the two.