--- title: "Describe what it is doing. We will tell you what it is called." description: "Maytag washer problems, dryer problems and twenty-four more behaviors — what you can check free, and what the machine calls it when it says anything." url: "https://maytagmiami.support/symptoms/" date_modified: "2026-09-07" --- # Symptoms archive ## Describe what it is doing. We will tell you what it is called. Nobody calls to report a drain pump. They call because the tub is full of water at the end of a cycle, or the dryer needs two runs, or the lettuce has frozen. These pages start where you actually are, put the maker's own name on it where one exists, and are honest about the five where none does. 26 — behaviors written up 11 — reported as lights, not numbers 1 — with no published condition at all from $89 — diagnostic, credited to the repair ## Twenty-six behaviors, in the words people actually use Each page carries the free checks worth doing first, what it usually turns out to be, and how the answer changes depending on which version of the machine you have. No symptoms are published yet. ## Six on the washer, four on the dryer, one on the hood The weighting is measured rather than chosen. This maker publishes **105 numbered conditions for its washers and 48 for its dryers**, against 41 for cooktops, 50 for microwaves and exactly two for a range hood. Where the maker documents most, owners ask most, and the pages follow that rather than spreading evenly for the sake of tidiness. It also matches what gets called in. A washer bought twelve years ago and used four times a week has done tens of thousands of operations on its lid lock alone, and that is not an exotic complaint on this badge. It is the ordinary one. ## Where there is no condition to read, the page says so One of these pages links to nothing in the code archive, and that is deliberate rather than unfinished. This maker publishes no condition at all for a freezer that is not freezing or for an ice maker that has stopped — we counted across the whole library, and the number is zero. What replaces it is a thermometer left overnight, a tissue held under a fan, and a slip of paper shut in a door seal. Those are not consolation prizes; on an appliance that reports nothing they are the actual diagnosis, and each of them costs you nothing and about ten minutes. ## Three minutes that change the visit If the machine prints something - Copy it exactly — a space or a dash between the characters identifies the control generation. - Photograph it rather than trusting your memory of it. - Do it before you cut power. The display forgets and the condition does not. - Say which appliance it is on: the same characters read differently on a washer and a range. If it blinks, or says nothing - Count the flashes and the length of the pause, through two full repeats. - On a cold appliance, leave a thermometer in overnight and read it before the door opens. - Note whether the compressor is running constantly or not running at all — you can hear which. - Look for frost where there should be none. It is the clearest evidence a quiet cabinet gives. ## By appliance instead If you would rather begin from what it is than from what it is doing. ## Several of these end with us telling you not to book A burner that will not light is usually a cap sitting a fraction out of place and a blocked port, and the honest answer is a paper clip and ten minutes rather than a visit. A cooktop that has gone deaf is usually locked. A dishwasher leaking on its first cycle after somebody used hand soap is not broken. We would rather write that down than take money for showing you a padlock symbol, and the pages say so where it applies. ## The questions these pages get asked My problem is not on this list. — Call anyway and describe it. Twenty-six pages is what we have written up, not what we take on, and a behavior that is not here is a gap in our writing rather than in our work. Two things are wrong at once. — Say both when you book. A washer that leaks and will not spin is not two visits, but it is a different set of parts on the van than either one alone, and knowing that in advance is what makes it one visit. The machine cleared its own message. Have I lost anything? — Some of it. A condition that appeared once and never came back may have been a single event — a power interruption in a storm, most often. If the behavior is still there we work from what the machine does rather than from what it said. How much of this can I check myself? — More than most people expect, and every page starts with the free checks rather than burying them. None of them requires a tool beyond a flashlight, a thermometer and a paper towel, and none of them involves opening anything with power in it. ## Why these pages are written from the outside in ### You have the appliance and we do not Every one of these pages is arranged so that the things you can check for nothing come before the things we would charge to check. That is not generosity; it is the order that produces the shortest visit. An owner who has already established that the vent hood outside is barely moving air has removed the entire heating half of a dryer diagnosis before anybody set out. ### And what the machine is called matters The second half of each page is the translation — what you would say, and what this maker calls it. Those are frequently not the same words, and knowing both is what lets you search the archive on this site or read the maker’s own material without guessing. Where the maker offers no word at all, the page says that in the first paragraph rather than at the bottom. ## Describe it in one sentence. What it does, when it does it, and what the display shows. That is usually enough for us to name the likely part before anybody sets off. --- **[Read full article: Symptoms archive](https://maytagmiami.support/symptoms-archive/)**