From: richgr@panix.com (Rich Greenberg)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: Amana BR22 Inner Door Problem.
Date: 8 Dec 2004 09:24:49 -0500

In article <1102480356.392633.141080@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
  wrote:
>As a follow-up to this, I found out that the original part number for
>the inner door panel is 10994539 and the replacement part that
>Amana/Maytag sells you is 10462101 ($65).  Problem is that the shelves
>on the doors fall out of the 10462101 when you open the door!
>Solution: buy new shelves ($150)!  My bottom freezer refrigerator is
>about 5 yrs old and just out of warranty.  Golly, I wonder what other
>perfectly good part that I will have to replace after we get the new
>shelves.

This is just a WAG, but I would guess that Amana discovered that the
original door panel/shelf combination was poorly designed.  I.e. it
would break.  The redesigned both to eliminate the problem, and you just
had the bad luck that it didn't break earlier while the warantee was
still in force.

Why don't you invest $0.37 in a letter to the president of Amana/Maytag
asking if this was the case and asking for an extension of the warantee
if so.  The worst that can happen is they say no.

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