Maytag repair in Los Angeles.

Shares the Whirlpool pump platform, which means the diagnosis is familiar and the part is almost always on the van.

These were built heavier than the category, so when one walks it is usually the transmission mount rather than the suspension that has gone.

The door lock assembly or a pressure switch, not the motor. Both are inexpensive and usually same-visit.

Far more often the duct run than the heater, and lint builds in the run rather than in the filter.

Worth doing on these: the cabinet and drum outlast the heating parts by years, so a new element buys a lot of life.

Drum rollers and the idler pulley. On a heavier Maytag drum they wear sooner than on a lighter machine, and they are inexpensive.

The drain pump, the filter, or the air gap at the sink — and often the last of those, which is not the dishwasher at all.

Almost never the motor. Spray arms blocked at the jets, the filter, or an inlet valve not filling to the level the cycle needs.

The cabinet panel is screwed to the door and the hinge springs were balanced for that weight once.

A cabinet that drifts a few degrees and will not come back. Read against the sensor and put it on gauges before anything is named.

The defrost heater, timer or bimetal rather than the compressor. A fraction of the cost, and the symptom people most often misread.

A blocked defrost drain backing up into the cabinet. Clearing it is usually the whole repair.