- So you rolled your window down
and then you went to roll it up back up
and it won't roll up.
In this video, I'm gonna talk about
the most common cause and what to do about it.
Now there could be several problems
that could cause this.
I mean, it could be something electrical,
something in the switch, but most of the time
that I've ever repaired these, it's the window regulator.
And whenever it rolls down the strap,
or the cable breaks in there and it won't roll up or down.
If it is your window regulator and you hit your switch,
your up and down switch,
you're still gonna hear it in there.
Also, a lot of times if that cable breaks,
you can get your window and you can slide it up and down.
For a quick fix like today, it's cold and nasty out here.
I don't have the part.
I'm gonna have to order that.
You can raise this up to your window
and use some duct tape to go around the top
and stick to the glass just to hold it for the time being.
So if this happened to you, don't worry,
because it happened to me too.
In my rear window, I'm gonna show you the steps I took.
I'm replacing the regulator on a 2007 Nissan Titan.
This is the left rear door.
And I'm gonna be replacing it.
Now, I've already taken the door panel off
and if you need to note how to do that,
I've got another video and I'll put a link to that video
down in the description.
What I'm doing now is removing the vapor barrier.
This just helps protect it from air, moisture
and things like that getting inside your pickup.
So you wanna be careful not to tear it
and try to get it off without ruining it.
It's got adhesive that holds it on.
So if you take your time removing it,
you shouldn't rip it or anything like that
'cause you do want this back on for that protection.
But anyway, I'm taking that off.
And note, I don't have to take my speaker
and some of those other components off.
I just need to get enough access to get to the bolts
for the window regulator.
So I'm gonna take that off very carefully,
you know, get that off and show you where
the regulator's at.
Okay, I got the vapor barrier out of the way
and I'm showing you where a couple of
the regulator bolts are.
There's a couple on top there and there's a couple
on the bottom.
I'm gonna give you a closeup here in a little bit.
But we also gotta get to the glass
where the regulator holds the glass on.
We need to remove that so we can get the glass
out of the way.
And here's a closeup of the two bolts
you can get through those access holes
to be able to remove the glass from the window regulator.
There's one right there
and then there's one in that other hole.
So I may have to position the glass a little bit
to align that with the bolts and I can get
my 10 millimeter socket that takes an extension
and I can remove those two bolts
and then I can raise the glass up to get it out of the way.
Then I'll move to the other side and remove it
and there are just two bolts that hold the window on.
Then I can raise the window up once those are removed
so I can get the glass out of the way.
So I'll raise the glass and you can see
that I have a suction cup that straddles over the top
of the door and hold the glass up.
It keeps it out of the way, keeps it from falling
when you're replacing the regulator.
They come in real handy.
If you don't have that, you can use duct tape
or have someone help you.
So what I'm doing now is I'm starting
to remove the bolts that hold the regulator in.
Like I said, there's a couple down here on the bottom
and then there's a few on top.
So I'm removing those.
And get those out and then I'm gonna
disconnect the wire because the window regulator
does have a wire that runs to the motor
so you need to disconnect that from the door
so that when you put the new one in,
you know, you can reroute that wire through there
and reclip it to the door panel.
So when you put the interior trim panel on,
you know, you'll be able to clip it on real easy.
Like I said, if you need a video
showing you how to remove the door panel
and put it back on, I'll put a link down in the description
'cause I did a separate video for that.
So now I'm removing the top two
and on one of these top two bolts, it's slotted.
You don't wanna remove it all the way
because it kinda helps you align it
when you're putting it back in,
so you'll need to take that bolt out
and put it into the new regulator
before you put it back in
because it will help you align it.
So right there you can see how it kinda slid out
of that slotted area and that bolt is still in the regulator
so just loosen that one up.
Once you get it loose, you just kinda start
working it out and you may have to adjust it
and play with it just a little bit
to get it the way you want and then once you've got it
you know it comes out pretty easy.
And you can see this cable broke pretty bad on this one.
And that's usually the case, the cable breaks,
some of 'em have plastic straps or whatever.
And this is the most common problem.
But once you get it out and you've ordered you another one
and went to the part store and got another regulator,
you wanna get it out and once you get it out
you wanna make sure it's the identical, you know,
the same bolt pattern, you know, it fits the same size
of the door because you don't wanna be trying
to put it in and didn't do this part
wondering why you can't get it to fit.
This one did.
Everything fit and aligned correctly.
So I lucked out on that one.
And I did get that one bolt for that slotted hole up there
and I put it in so I'll put that slotted hole in first,
that bolt, and then that will help me
align the rest of 'em.
Once I get that in, then I can start aligning
the rest of the holes to the bolts.
So I've got that in.
And now I can kinda slide the regulator up or down
until all the bolt patterns align up.
Once they do that, I'll just hand tighten 'em all in
and then I'll come back with a ratchet
and tighten 'em down.
But I like to get everything hand tight first
to make everything's fitting up right
and the way it should before I start tightening them down.
So I'm just hand tightening this one right here.
And again, you may have to reach your hand back in there
and kinda push back and forth to get it all to align.
And there's that one bolt right there
I didn't mention at the beginning
and I kinda found it after I started,
but there is another bolt down there on the bottom.
So you could probably find these regulators on Amazon,
your parts store.
If you wanted to go with a dealer item,
I'm sure you could get one, you know,
an OEM window regulator.
This one is after market.
And don't forget to pull that wire to your motor
that's coming in.
Be sure and route it back through the hole
that it went through so that you can clip it up
and you can plug it in when you put your door panel back in.
So now I am dropping the window so that the window
can meet with the window regulator mounts.
And I will drop that down until they align
and then I'll do the same thing.
I'll kinda use the extension of the socket
to hand tighten those two 10 millimeter bolts on
and then I will come back with a ratchet
and snug 'em up tight.
And again, with any of this,
this does not take a lot of torch.
I mean, you don't wanna tighten anything up too tight.
That can cause problems.
It can cause damage and then if you strip something out
then you're in a mess.
Okay, now that we've got all the bolts tightened down,
we've got 'em hand tightened and then we ratcheted
them tight, we've got the wire for the window regulator
routed through and now we're just pulling
any of the door handle cables and anything
that needs to come through this barrier,
we're pulling those through
and then we can put this back on.
And this should stick back easily.
If you have a problem and it's not working well,
you can use something like weather strip adhesive
or something like that to stick it on.
But this one stuck back on well
and I didn't have any problems with it.
And that my friends is the most common window problem
if it won't roll up and how to repair it.
Thank for watching.
Take care and we'll see you in the next video.