My sister has one of these Maytags, a model MZD2665HEW that by now must be several years old. She called earlier this week to advise that in trying to replace the water filter, which is inside the refrigerator at top right, something snapped off when she was attempting to remove the old filter.
Since she has American Home Shield coverage on all of her appliances, she placed a service call. The guy came out, easily removed the filter and installed the new one, and told her the broken piece didn't matter. The whole assembly went back together without any trouble. He gave her instructions on removing and replacing the filter that require two hands, pushing the receptacle and the filter toward each other.
The broken piece shown in the picture below appears to be a common type of clip that's been in use on refrigerators for decades. I can't figure out where it came from, though. She has changed out the filter a number of times before and apparently had difficulty, but never broke anything in the process.
Is there any other trick to this operation? I don't know if the owner's manual provides detailed instructions about it.
Oh, and the guy also echoed my advice, which was to wait at least a year between filter changes. My test is to smell a glass of tap water and compare it to a glass of filtered. If the filtered stuff doesn't smell bad like that from the tap, I don't see any reason to change it.
Since she has American Home Shield coverage on all of her appliances, she placed a service call. The guy came out, easily removed the filter and installed the new one, and told her the broken piece didn't matter. The whole assembly went back together without any trouble. He gave her instructions on removing and replacing the filter that require two hands, pushing the receptacle and the filter toward each other.
The broken piece shown in the picture below appears to be a common type of clip that's been in use on refrigerators for decades. I can't figure out where it came from, though. She has changed out the filter a number of times before and apparently had difficulty, but never broke anything in the process.
Is there any other trick to this operation? I don't know if the owner's manual provides detailed instructions about it.
Oh, and the guy also echoed my advice, which was to wait at least a year between filter changes. My test is to smell a glass of tap water and compare it to a glass of filtered. If the filtered stuff doesn't smell bad like that from the tap, I don't see any reason to change it.
