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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Figured this out. On the back of the large top rack there is a rectangular molded plastic piece with circular openings in it. This molded plastic piece slides up and down in a bracket located on the back of the upper rack. The sliding up and down feature allows for alignment with the water supply circular openings on the back of the dishwasher (which are not adjustable). I found a small orange zip tie in the bottom of my dishwasher right when this started happening.  The adjustable rectangular plastic valve piece wobbles all over the place within the mounting assembly on the back of the rack. The two valve pieces are smashing into each other and do not allow the rack to push in all the way and therefore the door does not  close. It appears that the center circular opening on this adjustable valve piece has a cone shape piece on the top that should help it align and slide together with the supply piece. Well, without the zip tie, it seems that the adjustable piece doesn't stay aligned. Seems as though there should be some other retainer piece or something that better secures the rectangular piece in proper alignment with the supply valves. Zip ties, really? [/quote]

Hey man, thanks for the fix! I have same thing and understand the misalignment....however, I don't see anywhere that I could install a zip tie and fix it....can you share that? BYW your explanation is perfect and easy to understand, articulate! You must be a scientist &lt;grin&gt;[/quote]

Follow up: Turned out that there was some caked-up deposit around the mating surfaces that, when I used 6 ounces of full strength CLR solution in a no-load run, the mating pieces no longer needed jiggling or a hard press to close the upper rack - works like a charm now, although the zup-tie seems not to be a part of my model.[/quote]

Oh, and respectful Remembrance Day in Canada, same to you folks in USA for Veteran's Day.[/quote]

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