--- title: "Find your number, then find out what it is allowed to tell you." description: "A Maytag serial number lookup starts with the plate. Where it hides on each appliance, and what this badge publishes for the number you have." url: "https://maytagmiami.support/models/" date_modified: "2026-09-07" --- # Models archive ## Find your number, then find out what it is allowed to tell you. A Maytag serial number lookup begins with a metal or foil plate somewhere on the machine, and half the calls we take start with somebody unable to find it. This page says where it is on each appliance, and then what this badge actually publishes for the number once you have it — which on the cooking and laundry side is a great deal and on the cold side is almost nothing. 53 — models written up 533 — conditions in the archive from $89 — diagnostic, credited to the repair ## The machines, and what each one reports Every number here came out of the maker's own US catalog. Colors are collapsed — one page per machine rather than one per finish, because five pages for one refrigerator are five pages competing with each other. No models are published yet. ## A serial number lookup starts with finding the plate It is a foil or metal label carrying both the model number and the serial number, and on every Maytag it is somewhere you have to open a door to see. Under the lid on a top-load washer; inside the door opening on a front-load washer or a dryer; on the inside wall of the fresh food compartment near the crisper on a refrigerator; on the frame behind the storage drawer on a range; on the edge of the door on a dishwasher, readable only when it is open. Photograph it rather than copying it out. Model numbers on this badge run to ten or eleven characters with a color letter on the end, and a digit misread from a plate behind a laundry basket sends everybody looking at the wrong machine. ## More on some machines than on others The number identifies the platform, and the platform decides whether there is anything published to read. On the cooking and laundry side there is a great deal — this archive carries the conditions for those machines and they are searchable by both halves of the code. On the cold side there is next to nothing, and a model page here says so rather than implying a table that does not exist. That is not a shorter page by accident. It is the difference between telling you what your machine reports and telling you what you can measure instead, and on a freezer the second one is the whole diagnosis. ## Reading a Maytag plate What to write down - The model number — the longer of the two, usually beginning with M and ending in a color letter. - The serial number, which is what dates the machine when the model has run for years. - Both from a photograph rather than from memory. The characters are small and the light is bad. - Which appliance it came off, if there is more than one Maytag in the building. Where to look on each - Washer: under the lid on a top-loader; in the door opening on a front-loader. - Dryer: inside the door opening, or on the back panel near the top. - Refrigerator and freezer: on the inside wall, or on the back of an upright cabinet. - Range, wall oven, dishwasher: behind the storage drawer, on the opening frame, or on the door edge. ## By appliance instead If you cannot get to the plate, the appliance pages are the next best starting point. ## Your number not being listed here means nothing This is a selection out of a catalog of several hundred machines, chosen so that every appliance and every platform is represented rather than every finish. If your exact number is not on the list we still work on it — the platform behind it is almost certainly one of these, and the conditions it publishes are the same ones. Call with the number and we will tell you which family it belongs to. ## The questions the number gets asked I cannot find the plate anywhere. — Tell us the appliance and roughly how old it is and we will talk you to it — there are only three or four places it can be on any given machine. On a built-in unit it is sometimes only visible with the door fully open and a flashlight held at an angle. My model is not on this list. — That is expected. The catalog runs to several hundred numbers and this is a selection across the platforms rather than a copy of it. The number still tells us what we need. Does the last letter matter? — Almost never for a repair — on this badge it is usually the color. It matters for ordering a visible part such as a door or a panel, which is one reason we ask for the whole number rather than the useful-looking part of it. How old is my machine? — The serial number dates it, and it is worth knowing before a large repair is quoted. Give us both numbers and we will tell you what we can, along with an honest view of whether the repair is the right call at that age. ## Why a repair site publishes model numbers at all ### Because that is what people search Somebody standing in front of a machine that has stopped does not search for a symptom first. They search for the number on the plate, because it is the one fact they are certain of. A page that meets them there and then tells them what this badge publishes for that machine is more use than a page that makes them describe the problem before it will say anything. ### And because the number sets expectations Two machines can have the same symptom and completely different prospects. The number is what separates them — it says which platform, which generation, and whether there is anything published to read at all. That is worth a page each rather than a line in a table. ## Photograph the plate and send us the number. The model number and one sentence about the behavior is usually enough for us to name the likely part before anybody sets off. --- **[Read full article: Models archive](https://maytagmiami.support/models-archive/)**