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if you have a broken electric power window, held up by a piece of cardboard, then stay tuned,
because today I'm going to show you how to take the door apart and fix a power
window that's broken, you can hear stuff, so you know something's broken inside, if
you didn't hear any noises, it could be a bad switch, or a fuse, or relay, but in
this case, it's getting power, we just know something's broken inside, so we'll
take the door apart, so we'll get a screwdriver and start popping off the
panels, these door panels are often like Chinese jigsaw puzzles, you get enough little screwdrivers and pry and pop the secret parts off it'll come apart
you'll see, where the door handle is, you pop this little cover off and there's a
screw inside you take off, and under the armrest there's another
little secret part, you take that off, and take that bolt off, then you reach under
and just pull real hard, it starts to pop out, and then in this, the speakers in
the way, so you got to unplug it and get it out of the way, so you can get the
panel off, and on this Honda, you got to pull the handle out, and you see there's a
little clip, you just pop that off and the handle falls off, then the whole assembly
just lifts off, you got to do a little wiggling but it comes off, just keep
pulling until you got it off, then you just pull it out of the way, know I've been
working on it for years, so I can tell just by looking here, this is part of the
motor regulator assembly the cable it's broken and hanging loose, so we're going to
have to take the whole unit out, so you just go to all these shiny bolts and take
them off, they hold it in, there all over the place,
you just get a ten millimeter socket and take them all off, then when you're done,
the whole thing starts to get loose, then with some wiggling you can get it out, here it is, I've taken a window out here to
show you how it was supposed to be, this is supposed to bolt onto the glass and
you have to bolt it off, to get it off, but in this case, somebody's worked on
the car before me, and they've removed the bolt, so they could jam the window
back up with some tape, so it didn't fall down, so now we got to get two little
bolts to hold it in, because they're missing, now some guys try to fix these
and buy either a motor or regulator, but me, I just buy the whole assembly,
because it's easier and then it's going to last, if you fix one or the other, then
suddenly the other one breaks, you're back to square one, so now we got an all brand new
assembly in a bag, and it goes in this way, so we'll slide it in here, then we
line up the bolt holes, and put the bolts in, then go to where the motor bolts on
and line those bolts, and bolt them in, make sure they're nice and snug, then we'll get the
glass, and we'll slide that back inside, so that it sits on top of the window
regulator, and inside here, we see the little holes that we put the bolts in,
that were missing because somebody left them out when they took it apart before,
there's one on the front, and there's also one in the back side, and then of
course, we'll get the connector for the motor, and snap it back in place and test
it before we put it all back together, well here goes nothing, it works,
because you wouldn't believe the amount of times that you put them together, then
find out when you work that something's binding, always tested before you put it
all back together, then you just get the panel and you slide it all on its places,
push it in hard, then snap the pieces back in, then get the handle and
put its rode back on, snap it in place, and put the screws back in, and then get
your last trim piece and snap that on, and there you have it, a power window
that works now, so the next time your power windows go out, don't scream at them, fix them yourself, and remember if you have any car
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