Product review (4 stars): "Just take the old one out and put the new one in!"
THE SAGA:  You can skip this part if you've already decided to install this yourself.  The ice maker in our GE Profile side-by-side was not making and/or delivering ice to the bucket. I called a local appliance repair company and told them so, and made a $70 appointment for them to come out eight days in the future, which was the soonest they could come. On the morning of the appointment, the repairman called and said he was "coming out to take a look at it" and wanted to confirm my address. I asked if he would be bringing repair parts with him. He said no. I asked whether he repaired ice makers at all or just removed and replaced them. He said he only R&Red them and would have to order a new one. I asked why he was bothering to come out then, since the thing didn't work and he wasn't going to be bringing a new one with him. He asked if I wanted to cancel the appointment. I said sure since he couldn't do anything without a new ice maker anyway. He said I should call his office and order the part, then he'd come out and install it for an estimated total of $300-$350. Instead, I looked on Amazon and found this kit. The Amazon description of the IM-6 listed my model of ice maker as one that it replaced, so I figured why not order one. If I found I couldn't install it myself, I'd get a local handyman to do it. So I bought it.

THE ICEMAKER KIT, IM-6:  It arrived in about ten days accompanied by a cubic foot of parts and a half-inch thick instruction manual with 67 pages in English. The manual had 14 sets of quite different detailed instructions depending on the model of GE frig. It said there was a label on the back of our frig that would tell me which set of instructions to use. There was no such label on the back of our frig. I called GE help line on the phone. I gave a very young-sounding woman my frig's model number. She said that it was odd that she had nothing on my model. (It's only about 6-7 years old.) She left the line to ask someone else. When she came back she said she had "very good news": I could forget the instruction manual and the box full of plastic parts that came with the new ice maker. All I had to do was "take the old one out and put the new one in." . . . Now, remember that I was calling GE to ask them for instructions as to HOW to take my old ice maker out and put a new one in. GE's answer: "Take the old one out and put the new one in." . . . And also remember that this is the company that found it necessary to create a 67-page booklet with 14 different sets of detailed instructions on HOW to take the old one out and put the new one in. . . . So, since GE had now left me entirely to my own resources, I examined the new ice maker, examined the old one, and started unscrewing things on the old one. After a good bit of trial and error, I took the old one out and put the new one in. With a side-by-side frig, the longer your arms, the smaller your hands, and the narrower your shoulders the less cussing you will do. It took me about an hour and a quarter, but it'll take me ten minutes the next time. I needed only a 1/4" socket on an 8"-long extension to a racket handle, but just a 1/4" nut driver would have been even better and would have made the job easier. I didn't do a thing with the box full of plastic parts.

DOES THE NEW IM-6 ICEMAKER WORK?: Okay. So, 12 hours after I "finished" the job, I discovered that it had been making ice for quite a while. Not ice cubes, ice. It probably would have been making ice cubes hours earlier, too, but I had failed to transfer the "fill cup" from the old ice maker onto the new one so the water inflow did not go into the ice tray. Since GE had supplied me with no instructions for my model, I wasn't really surprised at my error. (Obviously, I hadn't "examined" the old ice maker as well as I should have.) I corrected my error, and two hours later I had ice cubes. But then the auger mechanism that delivers ice through the door did not work due to the same error, i.e., ice buildup was jamming the mechanism. I thawed out the freezer compartment, and that final problem was solved, too.

NOTE THIS: Save yourself a whole lot of grief by doing a search on Youtube for "ice maker im6" and watch the five-minute video on how to install this model, which video I discovered too late.

MY RATING OF THE ITEM:  Even though the ice maker works great now--it makes ice much faster and more quietly than the original ice maker that came built into our frig--I cannot bring myself to give this item 5 stars after the GE manual and GE phone call fiascos, so it's getting 4 stars. Also, I'll come back and edit this downward if the new ice maker quits on me prematurely--and upward if it lasts a long time. (I did save a couple hundred bucks by dealing with this all myself, though.) Meanwhile, I stored all the unused plastic parts in the original box up in the attic. A lot of those parts are for other models of GE friges, but some of them I recognized as replacement parts for my own model. Many of the parts are for the water supply system, which I don't need right now. But I figured I might as well save them in case I do need them some day because they'd probably cost me $30 a piece if I had to order them separately--if I could get them at all.