Maytag Refrigerator Parts Guides — Complete Parts Guide

Eleven parts guides, and this set carries both a thermistor and a thermostat, which is worth noticing because they are not two names for one part. A thermistor reports temperature to a control that decides; a thermostat decides by itself. The rest of the hub is the door gasket, the door latch, the fan, the fan motor, the door switch, the water filter, the water inlet valve, the control board and the compressor.

Knowing which sensing part your refrigerator uses tells you what a wrong temperature means, and the door group tells you whether temperature is even the right question. A latch that no longer pulls the door square and a gasket that has stopped gripping both leave a gap that runs the cabinet warm without anything having failed inside it. Check those, then the fan, then the sensing part. Water complaints are a separate branch: filter, then inlet valve.

The compressor sits inside the sealed refrigerant circuit, and opening that circuit is federally restricted work rather than a question of confidence. Every other part here is outside it and reasonable to take on. Reading the compressor guide to understand the repair is useful, performing it is not. EasyBear services Maytag refrigerators in Sacramento and across the Bay Area.