Maytag Jetclean Dishwasher EQ Plus MDB7100AWB

I have exactly the same problem with a maytag mdw17,,,,,any ideas

either the control board or the control panel needs replacement. Most likely the latter. There is a possibility that both parts failed also. Usually water gets inside the touchpad, corroding and shorting the touchpad. Good luck

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I have an older dishwasher also and recently my wife also complained about it not cleaning right... so me being the man I am tried in vain to clean the things... Bought new spray arms online and installed them in minutes...now the thing works like new... However I have also found that if the heating element goes bad then that also can mess things up bad... So I would buy new spray arms, and also check out the heating element to make sure it is working... Here is a tip that will help you with the online buying...

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screens , chopper ,and spinner arm stopped up take apart and clean

make sure that the door is not hitting the surrounding cabinet or drawers. and check to make sure that the
dishwasher is not pushed to far back in the cabinet which will cause the door face of the dishwasher to hit the front of the cabinets and not seal all the way around,,

Sure is. As long as the door is same size and same button options and you can get it to latch on, then no problem. I have seen others do it. You can always check out repairclinic.com to see if they have the door.

Try pressing delay/resume then drain/off. In some cases you might need to do delay/resume then drain/off twice.

Try to touch the lower door seal, it sometimes jumps out of its place when you open the dishwasher door. You may consider replacing the seal with a new one, I have to push the seal on my dishwasher to its proper place before every cycle. It is quite annoying, but free :-)

My Maytag Jetclean Flexiload is 4 years old. Upon choosing a program the timer counts down but little action is heard. Near the end of the cycle an Error message comes up. The dishes are stiil uncleaned.

This could be due to 2 problems: not enough water or water is not being pumped hard enough through the system. The 'not enough water' is easy to check - open the door in the middle of a wash cycle. If you have enough water (about 1" or more) then that is probably ok. The 'not pumping hard enough' could be as simple as plugged up filters and holes in the spray arms. Remove the racks and disassemble the lower spray arm and the filter assembly all the way down past the screen. Clean the arm holes, throughly clean the screen, clean everything. Pull the top spray arm and throughly clean the spray holes there. Put it all together and run a cycle. You should see a pronounced increase in the sound of the water spraying around. This should fix your problem - it did for me.