Window noises
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Window noises
When I roll my pass side window up or down when it gets to the stop point it sounds like the motor is still running and there is a clicking noise. Maybe like gears stripping?
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
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Joined: Oct 2003
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From: Miami FL
I would check your window regulator. Pay special attention to the plastic grommets that are near the motor that guide the steel cables.
years ago I went over a large speed bump and smacked the underside of the car. It made my aftermarket speakers break their wooden mounts in the doors and the driver side speaker actually fell into the door. When it fell it landed on the cable that manipulated the window. This stress broke the plastic near the motor where the cables meet. The regulator looks like a spider or crab in such that it has a center that all the cables spools into and threads out the cables to four different arms IIRC. When I would lower and raise my window I would hear a click click click noise as it went to max up or max down. This was the plastic grommet popping around and the slack in the system being sucked up. Eventually it stripped the cable causing it to get twisted inside the regulator and the window no longer would move.
I think the plastic grommets on the regulator are a teal color.
years ago I went over a large speed bump and smacked the underside of the car. It made my aftermarket speakers break their wooden mounts in the doors and the driver side speaker actually fell into the door. When it fell it landed on the cable that manipulated the window. This stress broke the plastic near the motor where the cables meet. The regulator looks like a spider or crab in such that it has a center that all the cables spools into and threads out the cables to four different arms IIRC. When I would lower and raise my window I would hear a click click click noise as it went to max up or max down. This was the plastic grommet popping around and the slack in the system being sucked up. Eventually it stripped the cable causing it to get twisted inside the regulator and the window no longer would move.
I think the plastic grommets on the regulator are a teal color.
