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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're going to show you how to replace the front window regulator on this '99 Intrigue, same as any '98 to'02, and same as a bunch of other different GM vehicles, as well. If your window stops working, but it's still making noise, a kind of a grinding noise, that usually means the cable on your regulator is snapped. Tools you'll need are Phillips and flat blade screwdrivers, a T30 Torx driver, door panel clip tool or putty knife, and a 10mm wrench, or a socket and ratchet with extension. These tools are specific to the Intrigue. If you're working on a different GM vehicle, these tools may differ slightly.
Start here, take this panel, and lift it up carefully. Pull it down, and, underneath, disconnect the two harnesses. To disconnect your near harness, usually I take a little screwdriver, push the little tab. Push down, pry it up, and pull it out. You've got to use your screwdriver again, and right in behind your door handle, you'll see a little slot. Put your screw driver in, and pry out. Pull this little panel out. Now there are three screws. There's a Phillips screw right there, and then this bezel comes off and you have to disconnect your switch. There's a T30 screw here and another T30 screw underneath that door pull. Speed it up here, as I use a T30 Torx screwdriver to remove those two Torx screws, and a Phillips screwdriver to remove the screw for the door handle bezel. There's a little thumb tab. Pull that connector off. You want either a putty knife, or if you have one, a door panel clip tool. Put the knife in under, slide it until you feel a pin. Give it a good pull. Slide until you feel the next one. Keep going up. There's one usually up here. Pull it out. Then our speaker here, is connected. Press the little tab. It's got the speaker. The door panel's off. The next thing you want to do is remove this water shield, carefully and slowly.
I have put my switch back on, and you can see, actually, my window worked fine. Some of the time what happens with these regulators is this cable here snaps, and when that happens, you can actually take with your hand and move your window up and down so you can get to these bolts easily. If your window is stuck all the way down or it's way up, you usually can get in here with a 10mm ratchet, I mean, sorry, a 10 mm wrench either way down inside or up in here too, if you need to. Either way, you want to remove these two bolts. Speed it up here, as I remove those two 10mm bolts using a ratchet socket, a 10mm socket and an extension. Once you have those two bolts off, just take your window and lift it right up, and just put it all the way up. Now, you're going to loosen these three bolts here to the motor. I'm going to speed it up here. You can tell when you can just loosen them rather than taking them all the way out. They have a larger oblong hole up on top of them. The three bolts for the motor, you just loosen and then two of the bolts for the regulator, I removed. Two of them I just loosened and you can lift everything up and out. Here's my lead. It's either going to be plugged in here or actually, maybe, plugged in right in behind here. You can do it two ways. I believe this has already had a regulator replacement because usually, on an original GM, the lead is right on the motor. But, I'm going to disconnect this here. I will use a screwdriver. If your lead is inside the door, what you may need to do is lift up your window first, and lift up the motor first. Bring it out here to disconnect it, or bring it through and disconnect it. You lift this up, lift the regulator up, and bring the motor out, and then the regulator up and out.
Here's our new regulator from 1A Auto. Here's the regulator that we took out. Like I said, I'm pretty sure the regulator we took out is a replacement. It's got all of the same quality control markings on it and everything. If you were going to put your new regulator in, what you would want to do, is transfer the bolts: one, two, three, four and five. Transfer the bolts on to your new regulator. This regulator is working fine, so I'm not going to put a new regulator in it. I just want to show you the new one from 1A Auto. It's going to go in there. It's going to bolt in correctly, and it's going to plug in correctly and fix your issue.
Obviously, for re-installation, what we want to do is put the regulator down in first. Put the motor in. Lift the motor up into place. Hang it up right there. Push our regulator up into place. Hang this one up, and hang that one up. Bring it down. I'll speed it up again, here. I start in the two bolts by hand that you take out, and then use 10mm socket with a ratchet and tighten all seven bolts up. You want to tighten them up nice and firm. Don't over tighten them and break a bolt, or anything like that, though. After you that, take your window. You want to slide it down carefully. Basically, push it into the rear track the whole time. Slide it down until it meets and the window has a couple of little teeth. You want to make sure to go to the inside of the regulator. Just pull on the window a little bit. Wind it up here, add one bolt. And again, speed through here as I put those bolts in and then tighten them up with my socket ratchet and extension. Pull your feed through, connect it. Do a quick test. It should be all set.
Speed up here again, as I just disconnect that switch and then put my water shield back up in place. We're going to speed right through putting the door panel back together. You can probably get enough and you probably remember enough from taking it apart. If you do want to see putting the door panel on in regular speed, just check out our other videos.
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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're going to show you how to replace a rear window regulator on this 1999 Oldsmobile Intrigue, same as any '98 to '02 Intrigue. The tools you'll need include a Phillips and flat blade screwdriver, T30 Torx driver, a door panel clip tool or a putty knife, and a 10mm wrench or socket, and a ratchet with extension.
Okay, we're going to start a little bit out of order here. You'll notice I have the door panel off already. I'm just going to show you. I have taken the door panel off and looked inside the door and kind of found the problem. I'll show you basically the symptom that it has, which is that the switch activates the motor but it doesn't do anything. This is generally preceded by a pop and a cracking, and then some grinding noise. Okay, so again, here we're hearing the motor running but there's no movement of the window. Check our condition of our window regulator. There we go. You can see here it's held up by a couple of looks like somebody put some wire ties on there and this is all broken.
So, on this vehicle, obviously our window regulator has failed, so we're going to show you how to get at it and replace it. To remove this rear door panel, you want to pull up the back of your power window switch plate, and then pull it back and turn it over. Use a flat blade screwdriver. Push on there's a tab here push on that tab. Disconnect it. Then right here, behind the door handle, you'll see a little slot at the bottom. You want to pry the trim plate in here up. Now, behind there is a Phillips screw, a T30 Torx screw there, and a T30 Torx screw up through there. We'll pick up the pace here as I remove those two T30 Torx screws, and then remove the Phillips screw behind the door handle.
Now, it's held around the edges with clips. Start with a putty knife, and you can kind of put it in there. Go down until you feel a clip. As you pull it out, if you want, you can actually continue with your putty knife, or use a door panel clip tool. You put it around that clip, pull, and you can see it kind of comes off. You can use your clip tool or putty knife to go around the edge of the door. As you come to a clip, pull it off, and the door panel comes right off. We pull our water shield off. Snip these wire ties. On this vehicle, somebody had realized that the regulator was broken, took the door panel off, put some plastic wire ties on here to hold the window up. So we'll remove those wire ties, and then you can see how your window will basically move on its own.
Now, I can move my window down. Now there are two bolts right down here that I'm going to remove. These bolts separate the window from the regulator. I'll just speed it up here as I remove those two 10mm bolts. Now, you can see the regulator, just feel down. I'm going to take my window, and pull it right up. You can see I just used a little bit of painter's tape to make sure that that window doesn't slide down while we have our hands inside the door.
A 10mm wrench again. We'll speed it up here as we just loosen those three 10mm bolts that hold the window motor. Take this out. Here's our lead for the power window. You press down on a tab and pull it out. Now, we're going to loosen up this bolt here. Speed it up here again. There are four bolts holding the window regulator rail. You can loosen two of them and remove the other two. I'm going to lift this up. There's our regulator; here's the window motor.
Now, here's our new regulator from 1A Auto. Obviously, it's going to go in there and fix the problem. One minor difference is that the motor has kind of a pigtail on it. Not a big deal. What you want to do now is transfer the bolts. So these three bolts that are in the motor, I'm going to transfer them to our motor here, and then these two bolts that are still in the regulator, we're going to transfer them to our regulator here. Put the regulator in, the motor in, scoot them up. Make sure your regulator goes inside the window. So, I've got the regulator hung up here, and now I'll hang up the window motor there, and tighten up all these bolts. Okay, speed through this again. We're tightening up the five bolts that are already installed in the regulator, putting in the other two bolts.
The bolts that hold the regulator in are the longer bolts. The shorter ones hold the regulator to the window. Just make sure you don't mix those up. Then we'll pick it up once we're done tightening. Now, I'm just releasing my tape from the top. Slide your window down until it comes in contact. Make sure that these little teeth come on the outside of the window, and you can push it around just a little bit to get it to fit correctly.
Now, you need two bolts. We'll speed it up here again as I just put in those two bolts that hold the regulator to the window, and then tighten them up. Plug your lead in. The power window goes up and down. Now, here, I'm just using a little piece of tape, and I'm taping the wire to the motor, just so it doesn't have a chance of getting caught up into the window. Then remove my switch and put the water shield back on, and you're set to reinstall the door panel.
I am going to kind of fast-forward through putting the door panel back on. If you want to see this in regular speed, or actual speed, just check our other videos for the Olds Intrigue door panel removal and installation. You just put the panel on and make sure that the pins line up. Push them in. Then put your bezel back on with the Phillips screw, your two Torx screws that hold it, and then reconnect your switch and put the switch back into place.
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.
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