I own two Maytag dishwashers because they have a third rack for cookie sheets and pan lids and great little clips for baby bottle tops, lids, and such stuff, and a piece you can lower to hold down things that try to fly around.
Another plus for us is the hidden wash controls that small children cannot learn to operate.
I suspect that all models have similar profiles of performance, but take this as you will considering whether it will apply to the model you want. I have had Maytag dishwashers in black and almond. (And have owned GE and Kitchen Aid also.)
As another reviewer has said the control panel goes belly up sooner or later-- in my experience, it's 3-5 years from purchase that one thing or the other is going to go.
The cost to replace the control panel, which can have one function go out or the whole panel go completely nuts overnight, is a good chunk of what it costs to replace the unit.
For the last 2-3 months, it was leaving grit on the dishes and inside the cups. Rewashing by hand, trying to diagnose the source of the grit . . . . . .
Somewhere on the internet, there are all positive reviews of some model of Maytag dishwasher. I don't think these correlate with the best sources for reviews, and I would guess that some of those are canned or from people who are still on the honeymoon with the Maytag.
Also have found their repair line to be no help.
I replaced my dead Maytag with a Whirlpool, whose trays absolutely suck. The won't hold a dinner plate up right or a large salad bowl at all. Good grief. What a stupid design. It makes me appreciate the pluses of the Maytag sooooooooo much more.
We retrofitted our new Whirlpool to take our lower tray from the Maytag and put some of those dandy features from the Maytag trays (that would unclip) into the Whirlpool.
Maybe now that Whirlpool and Maytag come from the same people (robots, etc.), they will make the perfect dishwasher. Not yet, though. Not yet.
