Maytag Washer MEDE500VMD

[Dr. Phil]

Thanks.

[Samurai Appliance Repair Man]

Need an accurate model number. Verify by plugging it in to http://repairclinic.com 

 

[Dr. Phil]

Oh.  I went to appliance parts pros. :-)

[Samurai Appliance Repair Man]

Okay... and you would have still seen 8 variations on the model number in the top LH column http://www.appliancepartspros.com/search.aspx?model=mede500vmd

This means the model number you supplied is ambiguous or incomplete. Cue the Tech Pep talk...

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As a professional technician, you know how important model numbers are. For a professional tech to post bad model numbers generally indicates sloppiness and laziness. I don't think you are either so let's pay attention to the important details of our trade and stop wasting each other's time by posting bad model numbers.

 

[Dr. Phil]

Well I've since found out, thanks to your response, that the LH column only comes up on my laptop, not on my phone, which I was using.  Oh well.

[Samurai Appliance Repair Man]

And that correct model number is...

[Dr. Phil]

I don't know! :-)  I asked the customer to double-check, and he said "Model number is correct.  Looked at it again.  Tried putting it into the Maytag website and didn't find it either." 

So I guess I'll just have to show up and look for myself.  *sigh*

[Budget Appliance Repair]

My bet would be MEDE500VW0

Use any site that gives list of close/similar model numbers and shorten to the base part of number MEDE500, it will show a list of possibilities and sometimes it will become obvious what it should be.

Part of this is getting to know the model number formats and what certain positions of the model number refer to,  (IE: Whirlpool built products which this Maytag now is, the last position is usually a number signifying the revision code and the position just before that is usually the color code).

From the above knowledge you see the last position can't be a "D" so the customer is seeing a number ZERO as the letter "D".  There is no color code "M" but there is "W" for white, customer most likely seeing V and W together and seeing "M".

I use the A1-Appliance site to see a good clean list of possible model numbers.  Here is what you get by entering MEDE500, (The same as you most likely see on APP).

>   MEDE500VF0		(29`` ELECTRIC DRYER)
>   MEDE500VF1		(29`` ELECTRIC DRYER)
>   MEDE500VP0		(29`` ELECTRIC DRYER)
>   MEDE500VP1		(29`` ELECTRIC DRYER)
>   MEDE500VW0		(29`` ELECTRIC DRYER)
>   MEDE500VW1		(29`` ELECTRIC DRYER)
>   MEDE500VW2		(29`` ELECTRIC DRYER)
>   MEDE500WJ0		(29`` ELECTRIC DRYER)
>   MEDE500WR0		(29`` ELECTRIC DRYER)

Edited January 17, 2016 by Budget Appliance Repair

[Dr. Phil]

It's a DRYER!  Geez...  MEDE500VW0