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as some of u know my window wont roll up and the buttons were held in with napkins and superglue. Well anyway my dad made me take it to a dealership and pay 100$ for them to look at what was wrong..,YES! 100 freakin dollars to look..and than they call me back and say ur window motor is dead and ur button tabs are broken it will be 450$ to fix..i basically said screw off and put my car back together..so now i need a window motor and i need to know how hard it is to install one? please help

 
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They arnt terrible, but definately not fun.

If it has never been replaced before, buy you an aftermarket (DONT GO OEM) window motor, and get a switch from a junkyard. Drill out some rivets, rivet the new motor in, plug it up, stick the new switch in, and you should be as good as new for about as much as they charged you to look at it.

 
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Was your window motor shot that you know of? You were saying that you putting door speakers in. If it worked before it probobly still works you just have some jacked up buttons. Dealerships would say that just to make more money off you. And If it is shot you could get one a a local auto parts store. I know advance auto usually has it on stock because I used to work at one and Had to replace one on my formula. Its not that hard of a job. A lil pita because of the tight space but it is easily done.

 
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I'd go ahead and spend the $40 on a new motor while I had it out though, with the frequency of them dying OEM. Just my 2 cents.

 
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idk how hard the motor is but changing my window was a PITFA. it took about 3 hours and i cant get it lined up the right way for some reason

 
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switches are easy to replace just unplug and replug

 
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Replacing window motors isnt that hard, It LOOKS hard but if your carefull and know what your doing its fairly easy. Just takes time to do. Motors are fairly cheap at auto zone I got mine there and its still fine as dandy that was probably almost a year ago.

 
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yeah guys its cake. drilling the hole in the door is the hardest part, only cuz youre kinda shooting in the dark. once you get holes drilled drilling out the rivets is easy, removing the motor is easy, and putting the new one in is easy.

with all the problems ive had with my passenger motor and as many times as ive done it, now i can R/R it in about 20 minutes while taking my time.

the first time i did it i had shoebox's walkthrough. saved me mucho tiempo.

http://shbox.com/page/windowmotor.html

 
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ya i think the motor is bad becuz u can hear it try to raise thankyou alot guys ya. is there any writeup anywhere ? and can someone give me a link to the motor or shud i buy it at the dealer help pls

 
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wow 100 to look at it... rediculous.

 
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Id say them dealerships aint cheep

 
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again...

http://shbox.com/page/windowmotor.html

 
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I would of looked at it for you for 50 bucks, next time you know who to come see

 
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where should i buy the motor and panel around the buttons

 
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