2001 grand caravan window problem

Your dealer is correct, it needs the regulator assembly and the only fix is to replace it, and if you are mechanically inclined you can do it very easily

Glenn Beasley Chrysler Tech

I don't know about the word "easy". If it is anything like the mechanism in the 300M it takes several tries for the dealer to fix it right.

You could cut the hole in the inside sheet metal a bit bigger, couldn't you?

Ted

The 300 is easier then the Caravan

Not to mention being totally unnecessary.

A pet peeve of mine about to bring on a rant. I've changed a half dozen of these things, not just in Chrysler products, but in other vehicles also.

I've never had a bad gearmotor. it is always a small piece of plastic that turns a cable or a plastic rack gear depending on the design. so when this plastic gets a few seasons of temp changes and a little wear it breaks. For lack of a ten cent part (cost of manufacture) , you have to change a $300 dollar regulator assembly. I used to have a shed full of motors waiting for one of them to go bad. Never happened.

When I had my 93 T & C the first time one went out they serviced the plastic gear rack for about $30. I guess they were not making enough money so when the other side went out about a year later the rack gear was no longer serviceable and you had to buy the whole regulator. I could live with the fact that it was rivited in and required you to drill out the rivits and buy screws to replace, but all I needed was that cheap plastic rack gear.

Frank

The part is a large assembly now because that is the trend. Car manufacturers are letting the vendors do most of the assemblies for them so there is less work to final assembly of a car. Unfortunately when something breaks you have to replace it with the whole assembly because that is how the factory buys it.

Chrysler could easily require the vendor to make spares available for stuff like this. It would cost the vendor little money to make and Chrysler little to store. The other question is why are they making this part with plastic that is this fragile. It would seem to me that the function of a quality assurance department at Chrysler is to review the spares inventory and if they see a large number of spares purchased for a particular part they might do a bit of investigating why, and require the vendor to redesign it. Not to simply continue to produce the same part year after year.

Ted