Product review (5 stars): Prevents fires
Ours had a large tear for years where your fingers might touch the upper part of the screen, eventually the lint dangerously built up so bad the old filter wouldn't go back in without force which then caused it to break. This was fortunate as it made me to spend 3 hours taking apart and cleaning out the whole dryer of all the accumulated lint. Most maytag dryers are very similar to my model dg8000 and youtube videos will literally have you becoming an expert at disassembling and reassembling your dryer. I was lucky it never caught on fire, this fit my model perfectly for $10 and is so much cheaper than the amount of work required to clean out accumulated lint, let alone risking a fire for a $10 part.