Product review (1 stars): Horrible Loud Grinding and Rattling Noises
The Cooling Fan Assembly is defective and cannot be fixed because all the replacement assemblies have the same problem.

Maytag Service Department is not accessible by phone unless you play the game and call around to circumvent the system and are somehow able to get through.  The (800) number leads you through a series of prompts and then the system hangs up on you (during stated business hours).

The CSR and Manager pretend that this is the first ever problem they have heard while service technicians who come to your home explain that there is nothing they can do to fix the problem and that dozens of other people are experiencing the same annoying experience with this model.

Don't get stuck with this giant lemon and embarassment.  The noise is a loud grinding and rattling noise that you can hear from another room and it keeps getting worse and worse until you are calling to have another part installed and then the whole 2-month cycle starts all over again.

*** 1/09/2010 ***

UPDATED

Still frequent loud grinding noises even after Whirlpool took Maytag's service responsibilities over and finally came up with a redesign on the cursed fan assembly. I swear to the god of all coolant, I am going to blow this heap of annoying plastic and metal to smitherines any day now!

*grrrrrrrrr!