Window motor

My friends 89 Jeep Cherokee's window motor quit on him. Upon disassembling the door, we found that the wire had just broken off the motor due vibration and 14 years of opening and closing. It wasn't too hard to pull it out and rewire it.

No, but one of the arms in the mechanism on the driver's door of my son's 92 Legacy just broke off.

Replacement part was about 70 USD from Subaru, and an auto glass shop said they'd install it for 50 USD or so.

If you get the motor replaced, be sure to lubricate the mechanism well, as long as it's out there being fixed.

hmm. The only thing to have broken on my 02 wrx wagon is the a/c sensor. Otherwise it's been absolutely reliable.

on this car to have broken.

one, unfortunately, has not. It's had more problems than my previous three cars combined.

I work for a company that sells used auto parts to rebuilders.

One of my product lines is window lift motors. I sell about 5,000 a month.

Do you think window lift motors go bad? I do!!!! (Thankfully for my livelihood)

Dukephoto

In my '95 Outback the lift mechanism in the driver's window went bad. The motor was fine but the metal arms bent out of shape. I straightened them temporarily, knew it would not last, planned to take it out and weld on some reinforcement. I got so busy that did not happen and of course the metal twisted again. The dealer did sell me just a set of arms, that I could move the motor to, for somewhere around $70, so I bought that. Guess what: The new arms had reinforcements already welded on. So I think they found the original design was too weak and would sometimes give up: The window was not out of alignment, and I even from time to time lubricate it in the tracks lightly. They were right. I think the mechanism has been essentially the same for years. I assume more recent cars have the bracing to begin with. Replacing the mechanism is not hard if the arms are not bent and you can raise and lower them. If they are bent so you can't raise it to undo the nuts, then lower the mechanism away from the glass to make it fit through the small openings, it is much harder... But if they are bent you probably don't mind bending them some more, so just pull and push and twist, etc., and eventually you can get the remains out of the door. Bob Wilson

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