Product review (4 stars): Replaced my Start Button
Bought this because my start button broke (like most people's reason for buying a 200 dollars console).  The buttons all work but strangely enough the start and cancel buttons are much, much harder to push than all the other buttons on the display.  I'm not sure if this is their way to correct the design flaw from the older version or if it's something to do with the alignment of those two buttons.  I did not inspect it when I received it because I assumed it was new and in full working order.  My panel was manufactured Sept 2008 for production and my original unit is from Sept 2006.  Everything is an exact match.  It is made in the USA.  Comes shipped in a Whirlpool box all wrapped up and shipped in an Amazon box.  It's well packaged.  I spent over an hour on a chat with a rep at a big named store that offers these through their parts direct department.  We went round and round as to whether the gray plastic panel holding the start button came with the console or the control board.  It appears to come attached to both.  I was told the gray plastic panel could be removed from this console by prying on 6 tabs but had no luck; like everyone else that posted about it.  If you can remove the gray plastic panel, then you would be smart to just spend the money on the control board since its the top piece attached to the control board and it's just as expensive as the console to replace but you get a whole new interface not just a pretty new console.  Follow the youtube video of the kid replacing the one for the washer and you can swap this out yourself in 10-15 mins.