Product review (5 stars): Nice, cost-friendly replacement ice maker (some work may be required, though). Two Thumbs Up!
For the price that this cost it beats the heck out of the OEM version from Kenmore. Some aspects of this ice maker are better and some are worse than the OEM Kenmore/Sears part, so I just want to be clear. First, the actual tray/basin where the ice cubes are made appears to be (keep in mind I reserve the right to change my opinion after a year or two of usage) a better design and uses better material/coating than the Kenmore original part. The original Kenmore ice maker basin material/coating eventually wears, gets water behind it, balloons up and peels causing coating particles to freeze in the ice cubes. Plus leaves a bad taste to the ice cubes. This replacement ice maker (had for a month now) hasn't had a problem and the coating used in its basin seems stronger and the ice cubes dislodge easier - no bad taste or particles. The drawback is that the plastic (white) water funnel part that you see in the photo (where your water hose meets the ice cube maker and the shut-off bar attaches to) was very different than my model. To the extent that I had to disassemble the new replacement ice maker (and the old original one) and attach the original white plastic water funnel to the new replacement ice maker. This meant swapping out the ice cube pusher rod (the one with the fingers) as well so it matched up with the original water funnel piece. Both original pieces do fit on the replacement ice maker and work fine, it just requires some basic mechanical skill to take both the original and replacement ice makers apart and reassemble with the correct working pieces. It took me about 5-10 minutes, but I'm handy, so it may take you slightly longer. Nevertheless, it does work and works, in my opinion, better than the original ice maker. Again, we'll see how long it lasts, but the ice cubes are big, clean and don't have a bad taste or particles in them. That's what you want! Keep in mind, considering this replacement ice maker was about 75% of the cost of the original, buy it, do the work to make the water funnel fit correctly and you'll be very happy like me.