Microwave Door Assembly ADC73146301

The third time getting parts with problems

Ordinarily, this would have been an easy replacement. But once again, the parts were wrong. A year ago, the handle broke on this oven. When I ordered another handle, it didn't fit - almost fit, but was slightly different. But when I disassembled the door to replace the handle, I found all kinds of broken parts. So I ordered another door. When the door arrived, it was badly packed and dented. Instead of go through all of the trouble of sending it back, I was able to swap parts between the old and somewhat damaged new door and get it working. A week ago, the handle broke again, and the door is literally coming apart, so I ordered an entire new door again. This time, the door arrived and didn't fit - it almost fit. My oven has a rotating tray that extends a little out the front and the glass on the old door accommodates it by being a bit deep. On the new door, the glass is shallow - I don't know why. Once again, instead of returning the incorrect part, I put the old glass and mesh, which are in good shape onto the new door and managed once again to fix it. In summary, this Kenmore microwave oven is the cheapest piece of junk (it came with the house) and every time I buy parts for it, I get incorrectly fitting parts, or damaged parts. Somehow I'm able to make due, but it's a very annoying experience. If the part were the correct part, the installation would have taken me 5 minutes, by the way.

Ease of Installation

Moderate

Duration of Installation

30 minutes - 1 hour