Product review (5 stars): A perfect replacement for my Kenmore ice make and half the price of the part from SEARS!
A guest in my home chomped on what she thought was ice, but turned out instead to be a piece of hard, clear plastic.  After I was convinced she wasn't badly injured (small cut in her mouth) and wasn't going to file a lawsuit, I tried to figure out where this plastic came from.

I noticed the ice wasn't dispensing very well from my Kenmore french door refrigerator freezer's in door ice maker.  I removed this part from my ice maker and dumped the ice, I then saw the problem right away.  The CLEAR plastic pusher inside the ice bucket had pieces broken off, and that meant it no longer was pushing ice towards the ice crusher or ice dispenser.  It also meant pieces of CLEAR PLASTIC were being dispensed from my ice maker into the drinks of my unsuspecting family and guests.

For whatever reason, this little plastic part isn't available all by itself, no sir.  You have to buy the ENTIRE ASSEMBLY.  Sears wants a fortune for it, and then wants to slap outrageous shipping on top of it, I can only imagine how much it would cost if I had called Sears appliance repair.  Other places sell the Sears part number for a little less money than Sears, but its often on back order with a wait time of weeks, obviously this has been a high failure part.  Well, I'm sorry, there is no way I'm going to pay that kind of money to fix a safety flaw, but I also wanted my ice maker to work again.  After a long search, I found this part, and it LOOKS just like the one that is in my Kenmore, but the part number isn't quite the same.  LG Electronics is the OEM that makes these french door refrigerators for Sears, so I took a chance and ordered it.  Months later, I can assure you if it LOOKS like the one in your fridge, it IS the one in your fridge, and it will work and function perfectly.

So if your Kenmore has a broken ice maker because it won't push the ice out anymore and you want it fixed, do two things.  Go to the Consumer Product Safety Commission's web site and report this cut and choking safety hazard, if enough of us do it we will get a recall, free replacement parts or reimbursed our out of pocket expenses for replacing it ourselves.  Then order this part and fix your icemaker yourself.

I should give if three stars because the part that broke is still clear plastic, but I'm giving it five stars because its half the price Sears wants for the same thing.