Unusual Maytag/Whirlpool/Jenn-Air Model

[bwoods]

Can anyone tell me if this JennAir/Maytag was made shortly after the Maytag buyout by Whirlpool?

I don't recognize the washarm/tower mechanism. Could it be a disguised Whirlpool PowerClean module, with a tower??

The upper rack looks like a Maytag designed rack, but the lower has a saucer rack, almost like GE's, to allow room for the tower to slide under.

Any of you seen this model or own one?

http://chattanooga.craigslist.org/app/2699088366.html

 

[eronie]

???

Looks like GE WashTower on a Maytag PowerModule !!! Very odd.

 

[coldspot66]

That is the Magic Chef style d/w....much like a GE with the shaded pole motor. An ok d/w at an outragous jenn-Air price when new. The biggest problem with these is the drain valve linkage can get stuck in the drain position so that the water enters and drains right out without any circulation.

 

[combo52]

MT, JA, MAGIC CHEF DWs

This is an all MT designed machine that came out in the early 1990s as a economy line. It featured a side ways 1/6 HP motor a small disposer blade, a smaller micro-mesh self-cleaning filter. This was a one directional motor that used a drain solenoid to trip a drain valve. These machines were fair performers, but had a lot of pump problems and was one of the many stupid things that MT did that drove the company into such bad condition. Why they ever put the Jenn-Air name on it and why did they ever make such a hi-end model I sure never knew. This fairly crappey machine should have only had the MC, Norge and maybe the Crosley name on it. This DW was also often seen with the MT Peforma name on it, it will soon be a forgotten design, I haven't even seen one still working in a few years in a customers home.

 

[appnut]

I'm going to disagree with everyone who has said something about this dishwasher.  This is what a typical Maytag (and JennAire) dishwasher looked like for the very first generation of dishwashers that were the new design after the last reverse rack dishwasher.  Friends from church had the Maytag version.  Yes, it had the pop up tower and the saucer rack in the lower rack.  When they opened it for the first time I thought it was a GE.  These were made by Maytag. (IAnd I knew it the very first time I heard it operating) .  Has the almost full-size spray arm in the top of the tank that showers down from the top.  I"m not sure how long these were on the market before they did the next generation which got rid of the saucer rack in the bottom rack and also got rid of the pop up tower and was replaced with the stationary tower in the bottom rack.  Now, there was a time when GE also was sourced for some very low- JennAire models, but they were pure GE/Hotpoint. 

 

[gansky1]

My parents had this side-mounted motor design in a Maytag branded machine when they bought their house. Within little more than a year, the racks started to degrade and rust. They looked like the Maytag racking of the Jetclean series but under the skirt, they were junk. Noisy and only fair at dishwashing, they replaced it after 3 years with my Asko 1585. I remember these economy line appliances with the Jenn-Air name on them, those Admiral/Norge washers also branded Jenn-Air positioned as high-end machines. Such junk.

 

[bajaespuma]

I disagree with everyone on this thread (except for Bob, I think). This is simply a Jenn-Air badge on the Maytag dishwasher that was, in fact, the first generation of Tag's after the reverse-rack run. One of these, a DWU9200 (which has no digital crap to it whatsoever) is my daily driver and it is one of the best performers I have every had, hands down. It has, as you can see, a 1/3 hp motor and pretty much all the same parts as the RR's except the tub is plastic (which, although I prefer SS and porcelain-on-steel, has been durable and is quiet). The racks are capacious and well-designed, the cycles are versatile and I especially like the Quick Wash choice: a wash and three rinses in less than 12 minutes. At this point, my machine is over 16 years old and is performing like a champ. Here's the catalogue for these machines:

 

[bajaespuma]

That Jenn-Air that began this thread is most like the model DWU9200 here on page 1:

 

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[appnut]

Thanks Ken, nice to know Ihaven't lost my mind yet.

 

[combo52]

DIFFERENT DW

Sorry to here but both Bob and Ken have lost thier minds LOL. This is not the same DW that you posted the brochure for Ken.

 

[swillis]

Those First Maytags are NOT the same as the Jenn Aire

I used to sell them and if you look closely at the spec sheet you will notice it says REVERSIBLE 1/3 hp motor. The Jenn Air dishwasher in question did not have a reversible motor only a solenoid system with the motor mounted on the side. The first Maytags after the RR dishwashers used the 1/3 hp reversible motor that was below the module not to the side.

 

[appnut]

So John, is this JennAire a model that was found in the Performa budget priced line?  And a GE motor?

 

[combo52]

DIFFERENT DW

Bob it used a small Emerson motor built only for this cheap model.

 

[appnut]

thank you sir John!!

 

[whitetub]

The fisrt time I saw an ad in a newspaper for the new Maytag Jet Clean dishwashers, with the door slightly open, and I could see glasses in the top rack, I freaked out. I said it can't be. That's not a Maytag. And in those days, no internet to confirm this. So I went to an appliance store, and I saw that they flipped the racks, glasses on top, plates at the bottom. I was so disappointed. I thought that day, that Maytag gave up what made their dishwashers so great and unique.