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title: "Oven temperature sensor service"
description: "Maytag oven temperature sensor service: the cheapest of the oven rows and the correct answer to an oven that is out by a consistent amount."
url: "https://maytagmiami.support/services/oven-temperature-sensor-service/"
date_modified: "2026-09-07"
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# Maytag oven temperature sensor service

### A part that drifts rather than fails

Which is why the complaint arrives as baking that has gone wrong rather than as an appliance that has stopped. A sensor reads a little low for a year and then a lot, and the oven follows it faithfully the whole time. So it is measured cold against the maker's published resistance figure rather than replaced on suspicion — and the connector behind the cavity wall is measured with it, because a sensor reading open is as often the plug as the probe, and one of those two is free.

What this involves

The right answer when the oven is wrong by the same amount every time

Measured against the maker's own figure rather than swapped on suspicion

The connection behind the cavity is checked as carefully as the part

Measure the cavity against the setting

With a probe, through a full cycle, so there is a number rather than an impression.

Measure the sensor cold

Resistance against the published figure. A sensor half a value out reads as an oven that is slightly wrong and never as a breakdown.

The plug behind the cavity wall

A sensor reading open is as often the connector as the probe, and one of those is free.

Then calibrate

Where the control allows it, and confirmed with the probe rather than with a cake.

### Can I just use a thermometer and adjust the dial?

As a stopgap, and many people do. What it will not fix is an oven that is wrong by different amounts at different temperatures, which is what a drifting sensor eventually produces.

### Is calibration part of this?

Where the control allows it, yes, and it is confirmed with a probe through a full preheat rather than by baking something and judging the result.

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