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Thread Number: 46017
more like a whirlpool dishwasher than a maytag dishwasher |
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| Post# 672678 4/14/2013 at 09:27 (4,029 days old) by pierreandreply4 (St-Bruno de montarville (province of quebec) canada) | ||
Hello to all aw members,
do you think that ever since maytag was bough by whirlpool that the maytag name has lost its prestige if you look at this portable dishwasher it looks more whirlpool than maytag has if the maytag brand name was stamp on the dishwasher when it looks more like a whirlpool here is a picture to show what i am saying. This is the portable version idk if the built in models looks the same. 
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Post# 672684 , Reply# 1 4/14/2013 at 10:09 (4,029 days old) by whirlykenmore78  (Prior Lake MN (GMT-0500 CDT.)) |
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Pierre | ||
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Post# 672688 , Reply# 2 4/14/2013 at 11:10 (4,029 days old) by chetlaham (United States) |
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Sadly today all machines with the Maytag name are Whirlpool engineered. The factories that built Maytag style parts have since closed and everything in a Maytag can be found in a Whirlpool. The prestige is Gone. Maytag isnt even Whirlpool's top of the line brand.
That machine is not worth the money, it has PVC coated racks (I think)instead of the gray Nylon ones and there is no soil sensor either. The good thing about Whirlpool's Maytag line is the it uses the older point Voyager wash mechanism that has the built in Chopper instead of the newer low power wash system with filter strainer. | ||
| Post# 672856 , Reply# 3 4/15/2013 at 06:34 (4,028 days old) by mark_wpduet (Lexington KY) | ||
Point voyager wash mechanism? | ||
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Post# 672878 , Reply# 4 4/15/2013 at 08:54 (4,028 days old) by logixx (Germany) |
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low water wash | ||
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Post# 673182 , Reply# 5 4/16/2013 at 13:01 (4,027 days old) by chetlaham (United States) |
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All Maytag machines today use the older chopper design. If you look at the manuals they do use more water than the newer low power system. The low power system is found on all Whirlpool, Amana, most Kitchen-aid,Kenmore and so forth brands. When the point voyager came out a decade ago I remeber comparing it to the power clean filter module and being stuned at how limited it was in pressure, water volume and food particle round up. Today the point voyager has stellar performance over the newer low water system. Keep in mind on this newer system on has to pull out a plastic filter to wash after a cycle. The filter is small and course, so you really have to wash the dishes before putting them inside the machine. The Power clean and point voyager at least have that self clean fine filter and chopper.
The time is another story on the low water system to. The main wash alone is an hour excluding thermal holds for the normal wash. | ||
| Post# 673288 , Reply# 7 4/16/2013 at 21:57 (4,026 days old) by mark_wpduet (Lexington KY) | ||
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Post# 673680 , Reply# 9 4/18/2013 at 07:01 (4,025 days old) by maytagmike (Burlington, Vt) |
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maytag dishwasher | ||
| Post# 681194 , Reply# 10 5/27/2013 at 05:47 (3,986 days old) by zippyjet (Baltimore) | ||
Maytag Jumped The Shark
The beginning of the end for Maytag came when they bought or merged with Norge. Suddenly, their washers and dryers took on the fugly (in my opinion) Norge design ques such as out of round openings for both their washers and dryers. The classic Newton Maytags had a clean symmetrical design where the doors opened to perfectly round tubs. They were simplistic yet classy clean design. I for one always thought Norge Washers and Dryers were basically funny ugly ducklings of the laundry world. I also always thought of Norge as mediocre at best quality.
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| Post# 737414 , Reply# 11 2/24/2014 at 15:17 (3,712 days old) by murando531 (Augusta, Georgia - US) | ||
Higher End Maytag dishwashers
The portable Maytag dishwashers are basically the lowest-end models on their lineup. They're closely compared to WP's portable, except without the "resource-efficient" wash-system. I have the higher end MDB4709PAB model, and it's literally identical to the older Whirlpools before they changed. The only difference is that the chopper is a 4-blade vs. 2, and the lower wash arm has a different shape, but the spray-jets are in the exact same location as the stainless steel arm of the Point Voyager and PowerClean models. I love mine to death. I've put dishes in just as filthy as I did with my aunt's old 2001 PowerClean (which still runs like new), and so far I haven't found a speck leftover. This machine was a relief to find/purchase because I wanted a Whirlpool but everything has changed to the alternating arm system/manual filter, which I find ridiculous. If you're looking for any hope of finding a dishwasher nowadays with the qualities of the PowerClean, this will be the closest you'll get.
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| Post# 737415 , Reply# 12 2/24/2014 at 15:24 (3,712 days old) by murando531 (Augusta, Georgia - US) | ||
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Easter egg..
You'll also notice at the back on the bracket holding the top-rack wash arm supply tube, the original Maytag logo is molded into the plastic. I thought it was a cool Easter egg that no one else would probably notice. Although Maytag's parent company is now Whirlpool, it seems that the people that work under the Maytag side of the brand are at least attempting to hold on to aspects of the older machines that we miss so much today.
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| Post# 737754 , Reply# 13 2/26/2014 at 05:34 (3,711 days old) by volsboy1 (East Tenn Smoky mountains ) | ||
 I have some friends that bought them both when they asked my the most powerful dishwasher that was out there.I told them Viking dishwasher's have 1/2 H.p. but have horrid reviews.Maytag dishwashers are selling like crazy though and they get good reviews and they use water the most important thing to clean dishes.They love them and the one that I have used at my families rental in North-Carolina worked really good.It passed my cat food test and had no problems 1 quart of hard cat food dumped in the dishwasher and it was gone by the end of the wash period.I can't wait to move cause I hate this L.G. here. | ||
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