Product review (5 stars): More economical and environmental alternative to calling the Maytag man
My dishwasher is on an uninsulated (and uninsulatable, if that's a word) outside wall of my kitchen, and unfortunately, my dishwasher pump motor has frozen several times (when the weather has been extremely cold) since I bought it in 2002, causing the dishwasher pump motor to fail. While it's annoying that the only permanent answer to this problem would be to remodel my kitchen, I am extremely grateful that in the meantime, this part is available and it's something that many homeowners can replace themselves. I believe that. for environmental reasons, major appliances should last for decades and be repaired (instead of replaced) whenever possible. Unfortunately, in my area at least, calling someone to repair a major appliance costs half as much as the replacing the appliance, and in some cases costs the same as replacing the appliance with a low-end model. For this reason, most people just replace their appliances when anything goes wrong, and I don't blame them. However, repairing an appliance saves money, energy (the energy to manufacture a replace, the energy to ship to the point of sale, and the energy to transport it to the place where it will be installed, the energy to cart away the old appliance, and the energy to to recycle the old appliance), and greenhouse gases.

As for the part, it was easily installed in my KitchenAid dishwasher (the hard part was pulling out the dishwasher), and has been working like a charm for over two years,