Ikea Dishwasher Heating Element

• Not drying dishes properly
• Not cleaning dishes properly

My Whirlpool dishwasher (wdf520padm3) started leaving food on dishes and not drying dishes as well as it used to, even when I ran the 'high temp' and 'heavy' cleaning options. This started happening after about 3 years of operation. To try to diagnose the issue, I started the diagnostics cycle (see below for instructions on how to do this). However, the 'Clean' LED is also not working on my dishwasher, so I was unable to read the error code after the service cycle finished. I decided to... Read more

Followed the Appliance Parts Pros video and it took me about an hour from start to finish. I felt like the job was easy to accomplish. Read more

• Not drying dishes properly

My very handy husband replaced the part and now I have a working dishwasher again. Thank goodness we were able to find the part-otherwise we would have been out of pocket for a lot more cash! Read more