Whirlpool 8182634 Latch for Washer

Perfect Replacement Part for our Maytag Neptune MAH8700AWW We have a Maytag Neptune front-loader, model no. MAH8700AWW, that we bought in mid-2006. About a year ago, I must have been hurrying while putting things in the washer and caught something on the door switch, snapping it off. (What I refer to as the door switch is that little thing that pushes in to let the washer know the door is closed so that it can lock.) At that time I was able to use a little Krazy Glue to fix it, but last Saturday it broke off again and wouldn’t go back on with Krazy…

Be careful from reviews that say it works great the first week it’s installed Bought in on December 15, 2015 and on May 08/2016 STOPPED WORKING Only 5 Months later [I’m getting the door lock issue again!]. If I would have bought the more expensive brand name, it would still be under warranty. Be careful from reviews that say it works great the first week it’s installed! The original one worked for over 6 years! Open inside to look at “motherboard” connections like someone here had suggest. All connections inside washer were in good shape, no soldering needed…

So far so good with the doorlatch replacement.The good: very easy replacement and it is a much quieter clocking mechanism.The bad: it didn’t fix my door lock failure error code during wash cycles or the initial failure to lock the door at the beginning of a cycle. This is likely not the door locks problem, but elsewhere.Summary: so far it performs as it should but it’s early. For many years we have had a door lock error occurring every other time the…