How To Replace Rear Window Regulator 1998-2004 Dodge Intrepid

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In this video, we're going to show you how to remove and replace the rear window regulator on this 2004 Dodge Intrepid, same as any '98 to '04 Intrepid. The tools you'll need are pretty basic: a small flat blade screwdriver, a Phillips screwdriver and needle nose pliers if the door panel pins don't come out correctly and a 10mm socket with a ratchet and extension.

First you're going to want to use a small regular screwdriver and pry out that right there to reveal a Phillips screw, same thing right down in here for another Phillips screw. You want to remove that one and that one and there are three on the bottom: one right there, in the middle and there. We'll do a little fast forward as I just remove those five Phillips screws. Take a small screwdriver, pull that panel off. Reach under your panel, you'll feel a little section where you can get your finger underneath and pull it free and work your hand back up in here, pull that free and you'll have to pull another clip free there. Then your panel comes up and you can pry your lock button back a little bit and push it down through. Now lift your panel up and off. There's a little clip here that you can pry off with your fingers. You may have to use a little screwdriver and pull this lock rod up and out. Then down here there's a button on the back of your harness for your window switch. Right here is the button. You pull that down and off and your door panel is off. You can see here there's a clip that got left behind. I'm just going to use these. The best thing is a pair of needle nose pliers like this but you could use a regular pair. With the regular pair, what you would do is put them on here and then put a screwdriver underneath and pry. With these, I can just pull the clip out and put that back in my door panel so I can get it back together. Now to get inside your door, you want to carefully pull your shield off and try and do it without ripping the shield at all. I'm going to speed it up here. Again, you want to try not to rip this shield but for some reason the shields on these Dodges are a little brittle so I do end up tearing it in a few places, as long as you don't tear it to shreds you're okay. It'll go back on there as you'll see at the end.

There's a little bracket right here. You're going to want to remove this bolt and the bolt right down here. You can probably get away with just loosening them. Bring it up and off. You probably can't tell but the window's in the up position. What you're going to want to do when it's in the up position, there's a bolt there and you can that there's a larger hole next to it, and the same thing over here, there's a nut and then a larger hole next to it. What you want to do is loosen up those two nuts and then slide the track back and off. That disconnects the window regulator from the window. If your window's in the up position and it breaks that's why you do it and then if it's in the down position there's plenty of room in these holes and plenty of room here as well to get to those two nuts and those are 10mm.You can see I put two pieces of blue painter's tape just to hold the window in place. Now I'm going to loosen up these two nuts. Now I'm going to loosen up all the nuts for the window regulator. There's the lead for the motor right here. I'm going to push a little tab right there and pull it down. I'm going to take a regular screwdriver. I can see the top of my track here. I'm just going to use a screwdriver to tap that back so that the bolts are now through the large hole. You can see here I can push up on this. While I'm pushing up on that, pull my track off there and then pull that. You've got to pull it back off the back bolt. I'm going to stick my screwdriver through here between the track and the window. I'm going to pry down a little bit and pull it off. It's stuck back here though. Now my regulator is separate from the window. Pull my regulator up like that. Because I have it apart this goes here. It'll collapse and pull it out.

On top is our original regulator. Here's our new regulator from 1A Auto. You see it's all the same, it even has the same stud for bolt here. I'm going to reinstall our original one because there's actually nothing wrong with it. I'm not going to waste a new part on a car that doesn't have a problem. A couple of things to realize are that our regulator does have a lead on it that doesn't make much of a difference, you just have to curl it up in behind the shield and that's really the only difference, other than that the 1A Auto one is going to bolt in there. If you were putting a new regulator in, you would want to transfer all these bolts onto the new regulator. To put the regulator back in, feed it in beyond where it goes making sure that you've got the bracket inside. Get this up. Let's see here. You need to get it somewhat into place. Let's see all the bolts to this bracket lined up and down into the slots. I did take this bolt out, which didn't need to come out. I can tighten up these bolts. Plug in your lead. Now, what I'm going to do is I'm just going to take my harness, plug it into my window switch here, and run it down just a little bit so that I can see the holes right below my holes where I put it in up there. I can disconnect my switch and shut my car off again. Now what we're going to do is take the tape off up here. We'll take the tape off the window and then slowly slide the window down and now we can see in here much better to put this track on. We'll put the track on and then slide it forward, tighten up these nuts. Tighten it up here. Now, we want to take this and you want to slide it back to the same spot that it was originally and then tighten it up. Check all of our other bolts. Make sure they're tight. Take this, slide the bottom in, actually slide it up and then put the bottom in, and slide it down.

Now we'll speed it up here as we tighten up those two fasteners. Then put our water shield back into place. I'm going to, in the interest of keeping it a little bit short here, fast forward through putting the door panel back on. If you did want to see this in regular speed, just check out our other videos for the Intrepid rear door panel installation. It's pretty easy. You hang the door panel back up, make sure you connect your switch and your lock rod, hang the door panel back up, pull the lock through and then put your five screws back in and then put your panel on the little seal panel.

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