Weird window problem
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Drifting
Joined: Sep 2006
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From: Henderson Nevada
Weird window problem
So, my driver side window started grinding and look it up here and found out that it's the motor might be going bad. I figured I'll keep it up and try to fix it during my spring vacation. A few weeks later, the passenger side began to grind also. Now both windows are up. After a couple of months, the driver side won't go down and did the hit it a few times trick and it worked. Yesterday, I accidentally hit the express button by mistake and the window lowered all the way down. Dreading the grinding noise, I push the up button and guess what? No grinding noise. Tried it a few more times and it seems the driver side fixed itself unless the corvette gnomes came over last night and fixed it! Sadly, the passenger side still grinds. Did the pounding fixed it?
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The grinding you hear is the frayed window lifting/lowering cable trying to go through the window motor. At some point this will cause your window to get stuck. You will need to replace the entire regulator assembly which includes:
Motor
Track
Cable Connections.
The swap takes about 30 min to 1 hour per door including window adjustment on the new tracks.
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From: ramona california
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So, my driver side window started grinding and look it up here and found out that it's the motor might be going bad. I figured I'll keep it up and try to fix it during my spring vacation. A few weeks later, the passenger side began to grind also. Now both windows are up. After a couple of months, the driver side won't go down and did the hit it a few times trick and it worked. Yesterday, I accidentally hit the express button by mistake and the window lowered all the way down. Dreading the grinding noise, I push the up button and guess what? No grinding noise. Tried it a few more times and it seems the driver side fixed itself unless the corvette gnomes came over last night and fixed it! Sadly, the passenger side still grinds. Did the pounding fixed it?
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From: Van Buren Arkansas
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The window regulator is an assembly which includes the motor. Most likely you've got a steel cable strand had broken off and hitting something along the path of travel. From what I saw when I replaced mine, it would be a difficult job to manually replace the cable in the regulator itself. I just replaced the whole assembly and adjusted within minutes.
