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Hi, I'm Mike Green. I'm one of the owners of 1A Auto. I want to help you save time and money repairing or maintaining your vehicle. I'm going to use my 20-plus years experience restoring and repairing cars and trucks like this to show you the correct way to install parts from 1AAuto.com. The right parts installed correctly: that's going to save you time and money. Thank you and enjoy the video.
In this video, we show you how to remove and reinstall a rear-window regulator on this 2004 Dodge Stratus. It's the same as any 2001 to 2006. On our vehicle, there's nothing wrong with our regulators. We just take them out and put them back just to show you how it's done. Tools you'll need include a small flat blade screwdriver, Phillips screwdriver, putty knife or a door panel clip tool, and a 10mm socket with a ratchet and extension.
To remove the rear door panel, you'll look inside the cup here and you'll see a little trapdoor. Use a small flat screwdriver, pull that up, and you can see there's a Phillips screw in there. Same thing here another Phillips screw and then there's two Phillips screws on the bottom. One there and one there.
Once the screws are out, put your hand underneath, and you want to kind of go around the edge of the door panel, and you'll get towards the clips. Pull them out, and sometimes they can be very difficult to release. There's also a couple up top here. Lift the door panel up. Behind, there's a little clip here. Put your thumb, pull that clip off. Pull that off. Then, your harness for your windows is down here. There's a little tab. Push that tab. Disconnect it. You may find a couple of your clips don't come with the door panel. Just pull them out. Then, re-install them back into their spots on the door panel. Then, you're ready to go to the next round.
The easiest way to get apart is when the window's in the up position. Right through these holes there's 10mm bolts. You want to remove those. Those bolts hold the regulator to the window, and if your window is not all the way in the up position, then you should be able to get to those bolts. It might take a wrench or something, but that'll be a little more difficult. But, you want to remove those. Then, you're going to remove these three bolts here. Then loosen these three knots, and that allows you to pull your window motor up. Use the 10mm socket with a ratchet and an extension.
I'll fast-forward here as I remove the two bolts that hold the regulator to the window, and then, accidentally drop one down, reach down, and grab it. Now the three bolts that hold the regulator rail onto the door. I loosened the top one, and then removed the two bottom ones. Now I removed the three nuts that hold the window motor, and pull that out of its mounting holes. Okay, and now remove the last bolt for that window regulator rail the rest of the way. Now, there's a locking tab, then I'm going to push one side, then the other side out. Then, press the tab and disconnect the window motor. Pull this clip off, and there's your regulator out.
What happens often is these cables break and that results in that kind of grinding and crunching noise and your window won't work. Actually, when the cable breaks, you can use your hand and put it up and down. If the motor goes out, usually your window just stops and it won't go up and down. This one's in fine shape, so I am going to reinstall it.
What I'm doing here, since I'm re-installing that regulator, I'm just plugging it back in and running it down just a little bit so that it's not pre-tensioned when I'm trying to connect it to the window. Okay, now, push this down in. Put that through there, leave that in, and reconnect our harness. It's important you connect the harness correctly and put the kind of holding pin back on so that the harness doesn't interfere with the window. Put this little safety latch back in. Leave that pin on. Get your regulator into place.
Then you put the motor, there's the nuts, and the motor, come right up through. The regulator, make sure that this cable runs to the inside of the window. Now put our regulator in place. I'll speed it up here as I put the three bolts that hold the regulator rail to the door in, and then use my 10mm socket ratchet and extension and tighten up those three bolts, as well as the three nuts that hold the motor onto the door. Now, you can see through here. You can bring your window down. Okay, and now the holes are lined up.
Okay, so here I'm starting those bolts that hold the regulator rail to the window. What you want to do is put those in, and you want to tighten them so they'll still move a little bit. Move the window up and down a couple of times. Then tighten them up all the way. That just kind of lets the window get into the right spot and the regulator.
Okay, once you get the regulator reinstalled and tightened up, put your water shield back on. Reinstall the door panel. Take your power window harness and plug it in. Okay, take the rod and put it into the door handle. Put the clip around. Put your hand gear panel up over your lock knob there. There's a large pin here that lines it up. You kind of cheat and look back here and make sure the pins are going in. Reinstall your screws.
Okay, and we'll fast-forward here as we reinstall the four screws, one in the door pull cup, one behind the door, and then the two at the bottom. Then, make sure you put the little trim pieces back, and the one for the pull cup, and the one for the door handle.
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Hi, I'm Don from 1A Auto. I hope this how-to video helps you out, and next time you need parts for your vehicle, think of 1AAuto.com. Thanks.
In this video, we're going to show you how to replace a rear window regulator on this 2004 Chrysler Sebring. It's the same part and process on the Dodge Stratuses and the Chrysler Sebring's from 2001 to 2006. The items you'll need for this are a new rear window regulator from 1AAuto.com, a Phillips screwdriver, a 10mm socket and ratchet, and a flat blade screwdriver.
To start off, use your flat blade screwdriver and just pry up these two little trap doors here. You'll see there's one Phillips screw in there. There's one in there. If you come down here, there's two more. We'll just fast-forward as Don removes those four Phillips screws. You want to just pry out the panel to release the clips and we'll do this on the other side. Then your door panel will just lift up and off. On the back side of the door panel, you'll see this little clip here on your door handle rod. You just want to pry this off with your flat blade screwdriver. Then you want to just push the tab on this harness and disconnect it and your door panel is free. You want to just carefully remove your water shield here. Use a razor blade to just separate the adhesive from the shield. You want to do this carefully. We're going to just fast forward through this process.
This car has a cable style regulator so mostly what happened is you were using the window and you heard a popping noise and some grinding and you can hear the window motor trying to work, but the window doesn't go up and down. In that case, you can usually grab hold of the window and just slide it up and down and what you want to do is try and get it into the full up position, and then you can go right through these two holes here to get to the 10mm bolts that hold the regulator or hold the window to the regulator and remove those bolts. Now, you want to tape your window into place. For these three 10mm bolts right here, you want to just go ahead and remove each of these. There are three 10mm nuts down here. Again, just remove those. Now you can just pull your window regular slightly out of the door. You can see this harness here. Push in the red tab. Push in the tab at the top there and just disconnect the harness. Then you can pull it out a little bit more, but you'll see that this wire harness is actually clipped on right here. You just want to disconnect that and then your window regulator will pull right out of the door.
The old window regulator is in the front; the new one from 1A Auto is in the back. You can see they're identical, with the same mounting points, same connectors. You just want to plug in your new window regulator and feed it into the door. You want to start off by just lining up the studs on your window regulator motor. Push that into place and then we're going to fast forward as Don just replaces those three 10mm nuts, just by hand for now. Then, you want to line up the top part of the window regulator and just replace those three 10mm bolts. Again we're just going to fast forward as Don does this. Then once you got all of them in by hand, you can go around and tighten them up with the socket and ratchet. You're going to want to do the same thing to the nuts on the window motor. You can remove the tape from your window, and lower it down into the regulator. You can see the hole in the regulator right there, that's what you want to line up with the hole in the window. You can access the other bolt through that square hole to the right. You want to go ahead and replace those two 10mm bolts. Now you want to replace your water shield, you want to just make sure you pull the harness through, the door handle cable, and the door lock knob. Then just push it into place on the adhesive. Now to re-install your door panel, you just want to push that harness back into place. Then take your door handle rod and put the clip back onto it. Then you just want to line your door panel up over the block and put the clips in around the edges. We're going to fast forward as Don replaces those four Phillips screws and closes the two trap doors. You're all set.
We hope this video helps you out. Brought to you by www.1AAuto.com, your source for quality replacement parts and the best service on the Internet. Please feel free to call us toll-free, 888-844-3393. We're the company that's here for you on the Internet and in person.
