- In this video, we're gonna show you how to
change a window regulator in a 2013 Chevy Cruze.
Hey, this is Donnie with Car Addict Garage.
We're gonna show you the steps we took
to replace this window regulator.
So if your glass quit rolling up and down your door glass
and you can grab it by your hands
and move it up and down some
chances are the window regulator is broke.
What happens is that cable that drives that,
that rose that window up and down has broke
and It's not allowing window regulator
to roll that up and down.
So the first thing you're gonna need to do
is remove into your trim panel.
There's some covers here that you'll have to take off
cause behind those there's gonna be a screw
holding the door panel on
and just didn't gently pop these out.
You don't wanna break them.
So take a little bit of time, pop them out.
And then behind that will be the screw
that you need to take out.
So there's one there.
And then down in the right there, there's one.
So we pop that cover off.
Then you'll be able to see the other screws.
So there's two screws you'll need to take out
and I'll speed this up and go through this.
I don't bore you with just a taken out screws,
but I want to take those two out
and then we will be ready to remove the clips
on this door panel,
pretty simple door panel to take off.
So I've got a trim removal tool here
and it's a good idea to use one of those.
So you don't break any of the clips.
If you just try to pull it off
a lot of time you will break a clip and then, you know,
you'll have to go get another one to replace it.
So just take a little time removing that door panel,
use that tool to kind of pop that clip out
and then you can grab it by hand
and kind of remove it the rest of the way.
Once it's kind of loose
and on this door panel
you can also take that mirror cover off
on this door panel.
You kind of lift up on the bottom
and then kind of tap it on the top just a little bit
and that will release it
where you can take this door panel off
this trim panel.
And then once you get it off
you'll still have the door handle
and some wires that you have to disconnect.
So just disconnect those wires
and then also disconnect the door handle.
And you can kind of see how I'm doing it
that they're just kind of rotates out of there.
You'll be able to see what it looks like
once you get it off
and kinda get behind there and see it
and remove that.
Once you have those removed
you can completely remove the door panel
and you know then you can have access
to get inside the door to replace the regulator.
There is a barrier
a vapor barrier there that you will have to remove.
And again, it's important that this goes back on.
So be careful, don't just rip that off,
you know carefully take that off
where you can put it back on.
You may not have taken all the way off just to get access
to get to this regulator,
but get enough to where you can get inside there to get
to the bolts that hold the side glass on.
And one more bracket I'm going to take off.
Cause it's kind of in the way, it's holding this barrier on
someone will remove that.
So I can remove this a piece
of plastic just a little bit further.
And it's kind of has a
some adhesive on there that stay sticky.
So try not to get that dirty
so that you can put it back on.
Now you can see the window is just going up and down.
And so what I'm gonna do,
is I'm gonna hold it in place.
I've got these suction cups,
I hold it in place.
We had another person that'll work too
but if you're doing it by yourself, like me
these work real well.
And I'll put a link to the description down in the bottom.
If you want to learn more about that.
So there's a couple bolts,
that's holding this on
and I'm using a little impact.
I believe they're 10 millimeter
and I'm just removing these,
and once those are removed
you can take the window regulator out.
So I'm removing those.
And then you also need to unplug the window regulator.
There's a wire that goes to the motor.
So you'll need to disconnect that.
So you've got those two there,
and now I'm just gonna take
that window regulator out of there.
So,
this one was broke.
It was in two pieces.
It's normally one piece.
So I just had to take it out in a couple of pieces.
You know, normally, like I said it's one.
And it's a good ideal,
every time you replace a part to make sure you
have the correct part.
You know, a lot of times it may not be the correct part
and you got to put it in. Don't know why something's wrong
but always kind of compare them as you have one out
and you're about to put the new one back in.
So now you can see this new regulator is all connected.
It's not two different pieces
and I can put it in there
get it aligned back in there.
And the top
already has a bolt in there loose
and you can kind of fit them in those slots
and that way to kind of help you align where it should be.
So you put it in those slots
and get it aligned, you know
might take just a little bit
of twisting to get everything the way it should be
but you can see I'm getting that front one in there.
And the back one,
there we go with the back
when getting that one aligned in there.
And then,
that'll have you pretty well set up
where you needed to be.
Now the old glass are the old regulator wasn't
actually built to the glass.
It was all the way broke.
This and you will have to both the window regulator
to the glass like it should be.
So I'm getting the start-up,
bottom one started.
And again, I just wanna hand-tighten everything
at this point, until I get everything aligned
and everything started
and then I will tighten everything up.
So I'm getting it just a little bit snug right now.
And for this glass, you're gonna have to
roll it up and down to, until it sits on top
of the guides on the window regulator,
so that, you know
it attaches it where you attach that.
Now, once you have everything snugged up
now you gonna have to put the door panel on
just to hook the switch up
so that you can roll the window regulator up and down
so that you can connect it
so that it lines up to where the glass fits the regulator.
And you can see it right here.
There's a bolt and I need to roll that
up and down until it hits the glass.
And I wanna get it to that access hole.
And that's where you're gonna be able to tighten it at,
there's one on each side
and now I'm tightening everything up
you know, the window to the glass, to the regulator
and the regulator itself,
I can tighten all that up.
There's two bolts holding it to the glass.
And I want to hand-tighten these by a ratchet.
So I know how tight it's getting
and I don't wanna over-tighten it,
you know, you might bust a screw
or something like that.
And that would be bad.
Now, one more thing you want to do
before disconnecting the door panel again,
is you wanna roll it up and down
make sure everything's working correctly,
do it a couple of times
and make sure there's not a problem
cause the last thing you wanna do is get it
all back together and realize something's wrong.
So make sure that you test it
before putting it all back together.
Now get that vapor barrier
and put it back on,
re-attach that glue.
If there's some spots that's not sticking well
you can get some weatherstrip adhesive
and put back on there.
This went back on well,
then you want to be able to put
in brackets on that you had off
which I had this one bracket off,
put that back in
and then you can put the interior trim panel back on.
So I'm getting all that ready
and get the trim panel back on.
And we are almost done with this job.
These window regulators can cause a lot of problems
but they're really not that hard to replace.
You know, you just gotta get one ordered
and then,
you know, it's really something you can do yourself
at your house,
with very little tools.
Okay, I've got that on.
And now I am running, making sure all the wires
and cables are running through where they should be.
I'm going ahead and plugging that in
and be sure and put the door handle cable back on.
You know, you forget that
door handles is not gonna open the door from the inside.
So make sure that's on.
And that's another one, them things
you get it all back together
and realize you didn't do that.
Well, guess what?
You've got to take it all back apart again
or just the door panel off to re-attach those things.
Now you wanna line it up and kind of reverse what you did,
set it on the top
kind of knock it down
and make sure that lot goes
through on this one,
set it down.
And now you can make sure
that the clips align with the holes
kind of making sure that it's going in there.
And once it is, you just kind of pop it in with your hand
and then it should just pop right back in that hole.
This one is off-centered a little bit
or off from the hole
and need to adjust it just a little bit.
And you may have to do that,
but once it's in
just kind of hit it with your palm a little bit, you know
you don't have to hit it too hard.
And then the door panel be back on
and then all you have to do
is put those two screws back on.
Put the mirror cover back on
and you have replaced this window regulator yourself.
And now you can give yourself a pat on the back.
Not only did you do it yourself
you saved some money just by buying the window
regulator yourself and doing it yourself.
And I'll put some links down in the description
where you can find the window regulator
and the door trim pool and the suction cups.
It doesn't take a lot of tools to do this job,
for about 30 minutes of your time,
You can save a lot of money.
- And that my friends,
is how you change a window regulator
on a 2013
Chevy Cruze.
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