hey friends it's Len here from 1a auto I
don't know if you've ever been inside
your vehicle you're driving down the
road maybe it gets a little bit chilly
or you just want your window up so you
put it up well that's no good nobody
likes that sound so let's get into a
quick diag video so I can show you a
couple different places where I would
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ok so one of the first things we need to
do is take off the door panel obviously
once that's out of the way we'll have a
better view of what's going on here's
some of the basic tools that you're more
than likely gonna need to take off your
door panel something to pay attention to
is you may be able to see some of your
mounting screws as you come along here
maybe they may be screws they may be
bolts it could be all sorts of things
maybe even some pushpins
this one actually feels pretty good
there's one right there but something
that I wanted to point out to you is on
a lot of your goals especially up around
the little door handles here they'll
have like this little cover you just use
a small pocket screwdriver you pop that
off and you're gonna see another
mounting screw sometimes inside the the
handle here you might find one or even
if you had to take this out right here
which this one doesn't come out there
might be another bolt under there but
I'm not gonna worry about that for now
so now that I have all the mounting
screws out I'm just gonna go ahead and
give this a tug I'm gonna be very
careful because there obviously there's
gonna be wiring that goes to these
switches there's gonna be a little cable
that goes to these okay and of course
you get your speaker down here so just
be careful go ahead and lift up and out
this should come off and this one
there it is now that we have that
unbolted I'm just gonna bring this down
okay the window regulator separated from
the window that's great right there I'm
gonna go up and down you can move along
to just checking the regulator itself to
do that you're just gonna remove the
mounting bolts now that we have a clear
look at the inside of the door we can
see we have the window channels here
they should be nice and soft rubber and
they're not coming apart you want to
make sure that they're not dry and
brittle they're not cracked and of
course they aren't bent over or anything
like that this floor would one feels
great I can feel it all the way up I'm
gonna check this one as well the same
way just run my finger right along that
channel make sure there's no dirt or
crud or anything else inside there yeah
this one was great too perfect so once
you're sure that none of that's the
issue we can move along so the next
thing we're gonna do is going to be very
delicate you're gonna want to make sure
you have your safety glasses and your
hand protection we're gonna start
removing this tape and we're gonna try
to slowly slide the glass down obviously
you don't want to let it go cuz there's
nothing gonna be holding it in you don't
want it to slam down and potentially
break and the last thing I want is for
anybody to get hurt
safety first here we go hey last one I'm
putting pressure on the glass up against
the door okay so I'm just gonna go up
and down with this a couple times and
I'm just trying to see if it feels like
it binds anywhere
this actually feels fair maybe a little
bit tight but no real movement anything
that makes me feel like anything is out
of whack I'd say we can continue let's
tape it back up
okay so let's start talking about this
window regulator we've got it on the
bench so we can take a better look the
areas that you're gonna want to make
sure have lubricant generally speaking
are any of the areas that move okay if
there's any areas that move and or touch
you want to make sure that you have
lubricant between them so all up along
here you have this channel and that has
these little white grommets that are
gonna slide inside of this window
channel as you can tell it's got some
crud in there and there really isn't
very much lubricant I like to have
plenty of lubricant in there so what I
would do is I would make sure I lubed
this whole channel on the edge on the
inside there the edge on the inside of
this one and of course the inside there
okay all along there I would come right
up here this is a pivot point pivot
points you definitely want to lubricate
you can see that this has plenty of
scratches on it more than likely because
there wasn't an up lubricant and the
metals just digging right in so this is
a potential issue for that noise of
course you have this one over here I
already told you how to do the other
side but I would do the same on this one
you just Lube all those little channels
everywhere you'd Louvre this side right
here that's another pivot point it's the
opposite side okay
if you come along here you've got all
these little teeth and that's where the
motors gonna ride on I couldn't hurt to
just put a little bit of lubricant in
there as well obviously you have the
spring generally speaking that's gonna
have a ton of lubricant on it if it
doesn't just go ahead and add some more
if you see any other pivot points that I
didn't point out go ahead and put some
lubricant on them maybe in between here
that could be a good idea as well so
I'll show you what I mean grab some of
my little lubricant here I'm gonna go
right inside this channel I'm gonna try
to get right up along the top area there
I like it a lot there we go fill it
right in okay right along the channel up
inside this groove and the channel
inside that groove
and grab some more come along here the
same thing get inside that channel this
is great I'm go right up along these
those pivot okay so if you can get a
little bit of lubricant in those
couldn't hurt
see right down in there there's
literally no lubricant in between this
little ball joint area and of course
there's a minimal up here something's
gonna make sure I get plenty on those so
now that we've examined and lubricated
our regulator let's go ahead and put it
back in and give it another try now that
we have this all back in here we're just
gonna get the window back down mounted
to the regulator so we can continue
testing so now that we've got everything
back in and mounted for the window
regulator to the window I'm gonna give
it a try I'm just gonna go down all the
way and I'm watching these channels okay
I'm paying special attention to this one
because this one that I noticed had a
major issue and I can see the window
coming right up along there and it looks
great the whole way but what I had
noticed before
is that when I brought this up right
about there it would start pushing this
out as the window went up and then it
would start coming back again and it was
fine so right along here is where it was
binding as the window regulator was
trying to come up the window regulator
was kind of bending a little bit and
flexing and so it was pressing this in
the wrong direction
so what I did is I came along in here
you can see these little arms right here
you take out these bolts that hold the
glass again get that glass held so it's
up again and it's away from the window
regulator and then I just kind of pushed
on this I gave it a little push and what
that did is it just kind of flex this
arm in the opposite direction
alright and it started taking pressure
away as the window came up so I cared
that problem just by fixing it must have
just had a slight bend in this window
regulator arm right here so by pressing
on it it changed the whole geometry of
everything and it just slid it slides up
nice and perfect now alright so after I
lubricated everything I checked for
everything to make sure nothing was
loose or broken all that looked good
nice and lubed like I said I put it in
and it was still kind of heating up
along here all right
and that was worrisome to me so like I
said I came down in here I just took off
the window bolts again I gave that
window regulator just a little tweak a
little flex and it's working perfectly
now so to get to the point why I believe
that maybe this window regulator got a
little bent it's wintertime here in New
England
um and so your windows are up you get in
the vehicle you're doing your thing you
want to put the window down maybe get a
smidge of fresh air but it's frozen up
right it's stuck but you're still
pushing that button you're giving it a
little press so the window regulator and
the motor are trying to do their thing
like that but they can't because it's
frozen it's stuck so it just flexes
those plates and next thing you know
they're a little bit bent and out of
sorts so I just gave it a little tweak
it seems to be working perfect now so
I'm gonna get this all back together so
now that we've got that window all back
in here and we know it's working fine
something that you may notice is as you
put the window up it wants to come on
back down to approximately here that's
because you're gonna have to do a reset
procedure that's gonna reset the stop
points for the window motor so it knows
exactly where the top
and where the bottom is you can look up
that procedure pretty much anywhere and
I'm sure you'll find it if you liked
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