Service
Maytag washer drain pump replacement
The commonest laundry repair on this make, and one of the cheapest parts behind one of the longer jobs. A machine that stops mid-cycle with a drum of water is usually reporting the pump, the filter in front of it or the hose behind it, and this maker publishes more numbered conditions for washers than for anything else it builds — so there is often something on the panel worth photographing before the power is cut.
- From $89 diagnostic, credited to the repair
- 59 cities and neighborhoods covered
- OEM parts available on order
- In writing the price, before anything is opened
Before you read on
What this job costs and how it is agreed
A starting figure, not a quote. What moves it is the model, how the unit is built in and which part it needs — settled after the on-site diagnostic.
Starts at
from $175
After a diagnostic from $89, which comes off the bill when you go ahead.
or call (305) 853-8839
Diagnostic
From $89, credited to the repair
The price
In writing, before anything is opened
Warranty
On the labor we performed
On the visit
How this visit actually goes
The same order every time, so nothing is opened and nothing is charged before you have seen the figure and said yes.
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Whatever the panel is showing
Eighty-six numbered pages on the top-load machine and sixty-two on the front-load mean the washer usually names the subsystem before anybody opens it.
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02
The filter at the bottom front
With a towel and a shallow dish. What comes out of it is frequently the whole answer, and it is free.
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03
The hose, the standpipe and the sink
Height, kinks and whether the machine shares a waste with something slow. A sink can defeat a perfectly good pump.
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04
Then the pump itself
Measured and turned by hand. A pump moves water or it does not, and by now the path is known clear.
Applies to
The Maytag units we carry this work out on
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Top load · front load · commercial-grade residential Maytag washer repair in Miami
This is the deepest branch of Maytag's own support base and the oldest thing the badge does — the company has been building washing machines since 1907. 479 pages, and 158 of them are code pages: 86 on the top-load machine, 62 on the front-load. That is more numbered diagnosis than the whole refrigeration half of the catalog gets, and it changes how a washer call starts. On most makes we ask what the machine is doing; here we ask what it is showing, because it will usually be showing something. The top-loader is the one Maytag is bought for and the one that outlives its kitchen — which is also why so many of the machines we open here are older than the room around them.
- Top-load, front-load and commercial-grade residential machines
- 86 code pages on top load, 62 on front load — the make's most documented appliance
- Older machines are normal here: the badge is bought to be kept
In more detail
About Maytag washer drain pump replacement
The one appliance here that usually names its own problem
Eighty-six numbered pages on the top-load machine and sixty-two on the front-load make this the most documented appliance the maker builds, and a washer that has stopped with a full drum has almost certainly put something on the panel. Photograph it. After that the order is the same every time and it starts free: the filter at the bottom front on a front-loader, the hose behind, the standpipe height, and the sink beside it — which in an older laundry closet shares a waste and can defeat a perfectly good pump on its own.
This article is based on:
- Official manufacturer documentation
- Internal repair procedures
- Technician repair history
- Company quality standards
Before you book
Questions about Maytag washer drain pump replacement
What usually comes out of the filter?
Coins, hair grips, underwires, the corner of a tissue that dissolved and packed. There is also far more water in there than anybody expects, which is why a towel and a shallow dish come first.
How long does this take?
Under an hour on most machines once the diagnosis is done, and the diagnosis is short when the panel has already named the subsystem. It is the water and the access that take the time, not the part.
Where we do it
Across Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach
Same terms everywhere we go: an on-site diagnostic first, the price agreed in writing, and the exact figure confirmed once we have seen the unit.
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