2001 grand caravan window problem

My drivers side window recently started failing and I wondered if
anyone had a similar experience and any idea of how to fix it. What
happened was that the drivers side window (power) would go down fine,
but give problems to go up. It may go up an inch or so then stop.
When this problem started, I could just wait, up an inch, wait, up
another inch (and pray for dry weather) till it eventually ended up all
the way. Now it basically refuses to go up.

The dealer told me that the window regulator needs replacing, and the
parts and labour would come to about $300.00. I can actually think of
better ways to spend $300.00 and I would actually like the challenge of
fixing it.

Anyone ever had to deal with this? If so, what is the solution? They
told me that it's a very common problem.

any ideas would be appreciated.

 

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.

 

yea u should see them stuggle trying to put in a new regulator assembly

 

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

Ted

yea u should see them stuggle trying to put in a new regulator assembly
Art wrote:
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.

 

The 300
is easier then the Caravan

 

no way the sheet metal is too thin and flexes enough now

 

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