How to Replace Window Regulator 2004-07 Chrysler Town Country

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In this video we are going to show you how to remove and reinstall the front window regulator on this 2005 Town and Country. This is the same for any 2004 to 2008 Town and Country Caravan or Voyager. We show you the driver's side door and the passenger side door as basically the same procedure. The tools you'll need for the job are Phillips screwdriver, medium and small flat blade screwdrivers, T30 Torx driver with a ratchet extension and some painters tape.

On the driver's side of your engine compartment, use a 12 mm wrench and disconnect your negative battery cable here. Start carefully with a screwdriver right up underneath and pry up. This panel comes off and then use the screwdriver, pry out this little red tab here a little bit, and once we get that out, disconnect here and that comes off.

Now there are two Phillips screws, one right down in the door pull and one right behind your door handle. Once you have those screws out, use either a torque pound clip tool or a putty knife and pull out on your door panel a little bit, fish this in behind, pull out and pry at the same time and the clips pretty much release. Firmly pull out on this and then lift your door panel up, bring your door panel off, take your lock rod, it's just a little clip, pull the clip off and the lock rod down and then your door lock. Switch and just pull back on it a couple of tabs and then pull it off. The door panel comes off.

Next use a Philips screwdriver and there are four screws that hold your speaker in. Remove the four screws. Remove your speaker and unplug it and set it aside, and even though I am going through this fast forward, you do want to slowly and carefully pull back your water shield so you can access the inside of the door.

Your window motor is held in by plastic rivets. These rivets were great on the assembly line because they allowed for easy assembly of the regulator to the door, but they are very difficult to release easily when you want to take it apart.

See this one that I pulled out. If you look back in there, you'll see two teeth. What I was actually doing is you pull out with a larger screwdriver, and then you have to take a smaller screwdriver and come in behind and release these teeth here. The best way to do that is you can actually reach in behind and you can feel the teeth and get them on each side, so you can turn the rivet.

If you look at this one, it's kind of hard to see probably. Push this back in. With all the rivets are engaged, you can actually turn them. I don't know if you can see. I'm turning that one there and you want to get all the rivets to a position. This one I have, the teeth are kind of this way, this one teeth is this way, and this one down here I'm going to turn. The teeth are kind of like they're lined up this way.

Here I'm just using the small screwdriver and the larger screwdriver and each one of the teeth in the rivet is on an opposite side, so I am just using that small screwdriver to go in behind the apron of that rivet and unlock the teeth, while I'm pulling out on the motor with my other hand.

It honestly took me almost 10 minutes to do this. You are seeing an edited version. It is one of those things where it's really difficult at first, but once you understand it and once you get one of them, then the next one becomes easier and the third one, you kind of laugh at yourself because you realize how it works and it comes apart. Now here's your connection, push down on the little tab here and disconnect. At 1A Auto, we sell this all as one unit, so if you're window motor is bad, usually what you'll get is you'll hit the switch and you won't hear anything and the window doesn't move. If your window motor is bad, then you want to remove these three bolts, take your window motor off and then you'll be able to actually slide your window up and down by hand. If you're window regulator is bad, usually what happens is this is actually a cable regulator and there is a cable right in behind here. The cable snaps and you hear a crunching and grinding noise when you activate the power window. In that case you'll be able to grab onto your window and move it up and down by hand either way.

What you want to do is now you want to remove the window from the regulator. There is a bolt here which you can access through here or you can move the window to any hole so you can access it and then there is another one right there.

You have a T30 Torx driver with a socket and ratchet, put it back in, under this spoke here, you should be able to loosen them up. Once you loosen them, you can just take your window, and now you're window is actually separate from it.

As you can see I use some painter's tape to secure the window up. Now there are four bolts that hold the window regulator, one down here, one you get through there, another one through there, and this one down here. You just have to loosen all those.

Just a note, you do want to just loosen the bottom two. The top two you do need to take all the way out, that way you can kind of slide the rails down and across, and they won't interfere with the window. Here, basically what you want to do is pull the cable and feed the top of the right hand rail up and in, and then pull it down and out and then kind of reverse the procedure and pull the other rail out.

The original regulator is in good shape. I'm just going to recall it. The new regulators from 1A Auto actually come with hardware, nuts and bolts that makes it a whole lot easier to install and after going through what I went to get these out, I would never wish that on anybody else. I'm just going to remove these original plastic rivets, and once you have a good set of wire cutters, clip the end off. I just fast forward through clipping those rivets off and the next fun part is actually just getting the regulator back in and what you want to do first is put this behind down in, like that.

Here, I'm just going to fast forward as I use my T30 bolts. The bottom ones you should just be able to slide right down into the slots and then carefully put the bolt into your socket and ratchet first and start it in and then tighten up all four of those bolts to hold the rails in.

Now I'm going to use bolts and nuts to put the window motor back together. Put these through and put the washers in for the door right back into the original holes and put washers on the back side as well and then finish up with lock nuts.

Now I'll speed it up here again and start all the lock nuts on and then I use a screwdriver and a 10 mm wrench. Obviously, just use whatever appropriate tools you'll need to tighten up the bolts, and you don't have to get them extremely tight once they are nice and firm and hold that motor assembly steady, then that's what you need. Carefully remove the tape on the window and then let the window slide back down to the window regulator clamps until the window gets back into the clamps on each side.

I'll just speed up here again as I tighten the T30 Torx bolts for the clamps. Put your motor back in, put your switch panel back in. Turn the key on. Make sure everything works well and then shut the key off, disconnect your switch panel and then put the water shield back in place. Now you can see here I reconnect the speaker and then put it back in place with the four Phillips screws. Also you'll see that I held the water shield on with a little bit of painter's tape because it really did not stick the second time around.

Reinstall your door panel. Bring your rod over, up and in, then slide the clip over. your door lock lead plug that in. Now make sure you get your lock button up and through. Push it against the window, make sure the pins are and lock them in all the way around. I'll speed through putting the two screws back in one behind the door handle and then one on the arm rest and then reconnect your battery and you're all set.

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Here I'm just using the small screwdriver and the larger screwdriver and each one of the teeth in the rivet is on an opposite side, so I am just using that small screwdriver to go in behind the apron of that rivet and unlock the teeth, while I'm pulling out on the motor with my other hand.

It honestly took me almost 10 minutes to do this. You are seeing an edited version. It is one of those things where it's really difficult at first, but once you understand it and once you get one of them, then the next one becomes easier and the third one, you kind of laugh at yourself because you realize how it works and it comes apart. Now here's your connection, push down on the little tab here and disconnect. At 1A Auto, we sell this all as one unit, so if you're window motor is bad, usually what you'll get is you'll hit the switch and you won't hear anything and the window doesn't move. If your window motor is bad, then you want to remove these three bolts, take your window motor off and then you'll be able to actually slide your window up and down by hand. If you're window regulator is bad, usually what happens is this is actually a cable regulator and there is a cable right in behind here. The cable snaps and you hear a crunching and grinding noise when you activate the power window. In that case you'll be able to grab onto your window and move it up and down by hand either way.

What you want to do is now you want to remove the window from the regulator. There is a bolt here which you can access through here or you can move the window to any hole so you can access it and then there is another one right there.

You have a T30 Torx driver with a socket and ratchet, put it back in, under this spoke here, you should be able to loosen them up. Once you loosen them, you can just take your window, and now you're window is actually separate from it.

As you can see I use some painter's tape to secure the window up. Now there are four bolts that hold the window regulator, one down here, one you get through there, another one through there, and this one down here. You just have to loosen all those.

Just a note, you do want to just loosen the bottom two. The top two you do need to take all the way out, that way you can kind of slide the rails down and across, and they won't interfere with the window. Here, basically what you want to do is pull the cable and feed the top of the right hand rail up and in, and then pull it down and out and then kind of reverse the procedure and pull the other rail out.

The original regulator is in good shape. I'm just going to recall it. The new regulators from 1A Auto actually come with hardware, nuts and bolts that makes it a whole lot easier to install and after going through what I went to get these out, I would never wish that on anybody else. I'm just going to remove these original plastic rivets, and once you have a good set of wire cutters, clip the end off. I just fast forward through clipping those rivets off and the next fun part is actually just getting the regulator back in and what you want to do first is put this behind down in, like that.

Here, I'm just going to fast forward as I use my T30 bolts. The bottom ones you should just be able to slide right down into the slots and then carefully put the bolt into your socket and ratchet first and start it in and then tighten up all four of those bolts to hold the rails in.

Now I'm going to use bolts and nuts to put the window motor back together. Put these through and put the washers in for the door right back into the original holes and put washers on the back side as well and then finish up with lock nuts.

Now I'll speed it up here again and start all the lock nuts on and then I use a screwdriver and a 10 mm wrench. Obviously, just use whatever appropriate tools you'll need to tighten up the bolts, and you don't have to get them extremely tight once they are nice and firm and hold that motor assembly steady, then that's what you need. Carefully remove the tape on the window and then let the window slide back down to the window regulator clamps until the window gets back into the clamps on each side.

I'll just speed up here again as I tighten the T30 Torx bolts for the clamps. Put your motor back in, put your switch panel back in. Turn the key on. Make sure everything works well and then shut the key off, disconnect your switch panel and then put the water shield back in place. Now you can see here I reconnect the speaker and then put it back in place with the four Phillips screws. Also you'll see that I held the water shield on with a little bit of painter's tape because it really did not stick the second time around.

Reinstall your door panel. Bring your rod over, up and in, then slide the clip over. your door lock lead plug that in. Now make sure you get your lock button up and through. Push it against the window, make sure the pins are and lock them in all the way around. I'll speed through putting the two screws back in one behind the door handle and then one on the arm rest and then reconnect your battery and you're all set.

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