Product review (1 stars): 99.9% chance you do not need this to fix a broken striker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am rating this a 1 star to get peoples attention. If your striker is broke and you replaced it with a new one and the door will not close you DO NOT NEED A NEW LATCH!

What is wrong is that when the striker broke the latch was in the closed position when you opened the door. So when you replace the broken striker with a new one you are trying to close the door with the latch already in the closed position! It's just like a car door if you open it and click the latch closed with your finger then try to shut the car door and it will not latch. You have to unlatch it to make it close!

I just went though this on my whirlpool washer and i took the machine apart and took the latch out to see how it worked and if it could be fixed and i discovered this and saved myself $60. You could probably stick a flat blade screwdriver in there and push up to unlatch it, i did not try this method but it would probably work.

If you take the latch out of the machine and open it up there is a plastic plunger and spring that may fall out. It is the rod that operates the switch telling the machine if the door is open or closed and is very easy to put back in once you realize what it goes too.