Product review (5 stars): So easy to replace, even a Banker can do it.
This is a replacement for the ice maker in an approximately 5-year-old Kenmore Elite refrigerator. It took only a little digging to find the part and I was more than a little surprised to find out that the 'fridge was an LG. The salesman at Sears insisted that it was a Whirlpool manufacture when I replaced ALL of my wife's appliances in one shot. I'm not kidding when I say that I didn't want to replace any of them. They were all Kenmore and were ALL approximately 23 years old (not lying) with the exception of the over the range microwave. I bought them all right after I bought the house. Fridge, stove, microwave, washer and dryer ... and all were perfectly fine except that Momma WANTED new appliances - OK, I'm done gurgling about that. Anyway, the sales guy thought I was lying to him about their age and said "Yeah, well you might 7 or 8 years out of these. They're not built like that anymore." I don't want to hear about efficiency because I'll tell ya, it'll take a lifetime to make of the difference is usage costs after what these new pieces of excrement cost on the showroom floor.

First of all, the appliance repair place was going to charge $175 for the part (that's quite a mark up there, Bubzie), $50 for the drive to my house and then hourly to replace. Thing is, these quotes were pretty consistent from one place to the next. They all said "It might not be the ice maker itself..and I need to diagnose the problem first". Well, there was ice made in the cuber and it appeared it was ready to drop the cubes into the ice cube tray... appeared that it just stopped working at some point in the process ... and ... it appeared that one way or the other, I was going to put someone's kids through Harvard.

Found the part for $97 on Amazon. Hit Google for installation video.... and BINGO ... replaced the ice maker in  10 minutes. It took me more time to clean out the freezer and remove the slide out trays from the freezer itself to get at the failed unit. If you can work a screwdriver, you can replace this unit for the cost of the unit only - which is still stupid-high for plastic.