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Hi, I'm Mike Green. I'm one of the owners of 1aauto. I want to help you save time and money repairing and 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'll be showing you window regulator replacement on this Grand Am. It is a two-door. The four-door is generally the same, and this process is the same for a lot of different GM products. Similar little bit of difference in taking the door panels off and things like that, but very similar. The tools you'll need are a flat blade screwdriver, a Philips screwdriver, a putty knife or door panel clip tool, a 10 mm socket and ratchet, and a 10 mm wrench. We're going to just fast forward taking the door panel off. If you want to see this in real time, just check out our other videos for the Grand Am door panel video. Probably you can pick up enough here. It's really I think four Philips screws and prying out the trim plate and stuff like that. Then once you do that, then you have to pull the pins from around the perimeter. There's another screw right behind that little reflector. Then also just so you know, I'll use fast forward throughout the video too just putting in bolts or tightening things just to kind of speed along to get it within the YouTube 10 minutes and also to provide as much detailed information as possible.
You want to remove this water shield. You want to try to do it relatively carefully. You don't want to tear it because this is important keeping the interior of the car dry. Now you're going to have to remove two bolts. One there and then one up here. This car has a broken regulator, so it's kind of in an odd spot. You can see it right down in there, right next to the window motor. Not where I'm pointing where I'm pointing there in the shadow of my finger. Remove those two bolts. That's what will happen when the regulator goes bad in a weird spot, but you can get in there and get them.
Take some tape, and put a couple pieces up here. The window comes right up. Just put the tape on here to hold it up for right now. Quick freeze frame here. See where the arrow and the circle is? That little white clip should actually go with the window. It was a little blooper on my part. This car was broken and I didn't realize it until I started putting it back together.
Now I can take off the bolts that hold the regulator: one, two, three, four, five. I've taken these three out, and then these I can just loosen out. The regulator then actually goes up. Take that out. Unplug the motor. Now I just need to remove this little pin here. I have to remove this plate here too. Once that plate is out, you can begin to get the tire regulator out. I'll hang up this bolt here. That bolt's in place. Tighten those up. Now I'm going to plug it in just to make sure that the regulator is working and the window motor is working, also to run it up just a little bit so I have easy access to this bolt here. Everything looks like it is working. Now I'll put this back in. Now we gotta get our clips back on. We're tight, tight, tight, tight, tight, tight, tight, tight. Slide the window back down. See that there. We'll do a test, and everything is working pretty good.
Now at this point it's just a matter of putting the door panel back together. We're going to speed through that. If you do want to see the complete video at real speed putting the door panel back on, you can just check out our other videos and you'll see that. Maybe you can get enough by my quick motions here. That's pretty much it. This window regulator is something that the average person can do. No real specialized tools or anything like that required. We hope this helps you out. Check out 1AAuto.com for all your parts needs. We sell great quality parts. We got the knowledge to go behind it. We hope you give us a shot. Thank you very much.
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Brought to you by 1AAuto.com, your source for quality replacement parts and the best service on the Internet. Hi, I'm Mike Green. I'm one of the owners of 1A Auto. I want to help you save time and money repairing and 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're going to show you how to replace a window regulator on this 2000 Olds Alero. This is obviously a 2 door. The procedure is the same for the passenger's side. It's also quite similar for the front doors on a 4 door car. Tools you'll need are 8mm wrench, small flat blade screwdriver, Phillips screwdriver, and a 10mm socket and ratchet with extension. Use an 8mm wrench and disconnect your negative battery cable. You're going to start under your door pull. There's a little trap door here, and either from the top or bottom, just pry that off and there's 2 Phillips screws in there. And we'll speed it up here a little bit here as I just remove those screws. I'll use fast-forward quite often when I'm just doing monotonous tasks like this. Now right up here you just pull on this panel ... comes off. If you have this speaker here, just use a screwdriver, pry up on this tab and disconnect it. Also down in this corner, use a little screwdriver and pull this reflector out. And inside here there's a Phillips screw.
Once you have that out ... a door panel clip tool or a putty knife and start anywhere. Slide it in there and then slide it until you feel a clip ... And the door panel clip tool you go around a clip and then pull. That screw comes out of the car. You can see back in here ... you can see the other clips. Then just work your way all the way around the door. Once you have the door pretty loose, that comes out and lifts up. Your door lock ... just pull back on this tab, disconnect it. And then these 2 switches just have tabs on them. I'm just going to reach underneath and pull that one off. This mirror switch... a little more difficult. There's a tab right here ... use my little screwdriver. I can just take my Phillips screwdriver, force it up in there, pry that down and that released. And the last one here is my trunk switch, which again, just use your screwdriver. There's a locking tab right here; pull it off. Carefully remove the water shield. This is the new regulator from 1AAuto. You can see it's a cable style regulator, and what happens on these regulators and the originals is often the cable breaks. That's usually when you hear the popping and then the grinding noise. Normally once your cable breaks, you can actually reach in. My original regulator is fine, so everything is solid. But when your regulator breaks, what you can usually do is reach in and grab the window, and move the window up and down by hand. You want to move the window up and down by hand until you can see this 10mm bolt here. And then there's another 10mm bolt right here.
Then you want to remove those. Those hold the window to the regulator. After you remove those 2 bolts, you can grab your window and pull it up. You can either remove the window as you see me do here, or something easier is just put it up into the channel and use some painter's tape and tape it up to the frame, just to make sure it doesn't fall down while you're working on it. Now we're going to remove this plate here. There's a little pin that hooks the cable on the regulator. Push that through, and then remove these three 10mm nuts. Just speed it up here as you see me remove those 3 nuts, and then that plate just pulls back and off to the side. Now you're going to remove two 10mm bolts here and here. Disconnect your regulator or your window motor. Push up on a tab there and then pull the connection apart. Now remove that middle bolt that holds the window motor plate to the door. Now loosen the 2 upper bolts that hold the regulator. Then you loosen these 2 bolts u[ here. There's another clip right here. Just squeeze the ears on it, pull it through, up. Then lift up here, then bring the regulator like that. My new regulator from 1A Auto. I did install my 2 upper bolts, this right over here, then hang this bolt right up here. Then bring this all the way up and hang that bolt right there. Start this bolt in. I'm going to speed it up here. Start the bolts in first. Make sure you get them all in and threaded in.
Then tighten them up. You want to tighten them nice and firm, and then you put that middle plate back in and tighten up those nuts. Then just a small difference... the motor on this... the connector is on a little harness. So you just kind of pull that around and connect it right there. I've got the battery hooked up and a keyhole... reconnect my switch. Just bringing these down a little bit so I can see the holes a little better. Speed up as I put the window back in place. And again, if you just taped yours up to the frame, just remove the tape and then slide it down to the window regulator. Goes in there. Put that one in there. Make sure it goes down correctly. Now I've started those 2 bolts that hold the regulator to the window. Just putting that piece of weather strip back in place that I took apart to get the window out. Then tighten up those 2 bolts, and you can test it. And you're pretty much ready to put the door panel back on. The last 2 things I'm going to do... take these clips, put them right in there. Put this clip here. Now carefully put your water shield back in place and you're ready to put the door panel back on. Plug in our lock switch right up here. And our mirror ... push this in a little bit. Power window switch... this one goes down to our power lock switch, and then make sure you push the top of the door panel in. Make sure this speaker lead is up out of there. Push the door panel down into that channel. You may have to use your putty knife or your clip tool to force the upholstery in there a little bit. You want to peek back in here, make sure your pins are going in where they should. Fast forward through reinstalling those 3 Phillips screws. Put your reflector back in. Put this panel back on... goes back in here. Put that back on. Then reconnect your negative battery cable.
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