Baef

My window on the driver side will not respond (2001 Cobra), the passenger side works fine.

I need to be able to get the window up to lock it up at work tomorrow, what is the simplest way to get the window up quickly?

Thanks for any help.

Baef

After a bunch of searching, and reading. I was able to get the window back up by wacking the area near the motor.

Hope that does not happen too much, glad it was an easy cheap fix though

Evenexchange

Yeah, lol.. your gonna want a new motor for that baby unfortunately.

fastbackford351

Crap. My '02 did the same thing this last week. My wife comes home and says, "The window won't go up". I check it and of course she is right. It doesn't go up.

I don't do a thing to it and check it again a couple hours later and voila', it works.

So do you think it is the motor going south or just a weak connection?

Evenexchange

Motor is deff going south.

cliffyk

As the brushes in the motor wear they often get bound up in the holders, from accumulated crap--including powder from the brushes wearing. A good whack can cause then to seat against the commutator for a while, until they once again are not making contact with sufficient force.

The real fix is to remove the motor, clean the brushes and holders with alcohol and put it all back together. Do not lubricate the brushes with anything, the carbon brushes will slide quite nicely in the cleaned holders and any sort of lubricant will just trap powder as the brushes wear and bind them up again.

Evenexchange

Cliffy I want you to work on my car someday, that is my dream.

blackstallion666

+1 ^ but sadly most of the window motor these days are never made to be taken apart. Just the way that they are made. So your gonna have to get a new one to fix your problem.

cliffyk

This is unfortunately true. However sometimes, if you have more time than money (as the current economy is doing to my semi-retirement), and there's nothing to lose (as in the only other option is to buy a new motor), you can get creative--worst thing is you'll have to buy a new motor anyway.

I have in my life ground off rivets holding motors together and reassembled with long bolts or new rivets, drilled inspection holes so that I could clean things with various spray can stuff and/or compressed air, and scoured junk yards looking for cars from the same manufacturer with different regulator assemblies but the same motor.

Desperation is the illegitimate father of invention...

StriderTacticaL

lol cliffyk is there anything you don't know