Comments on: HowTo: Change a Jeep power window regulator

By: Dale Goff

Dale Goff — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:39:26 +0000

Man, you guys were lifesavers! The duct tape and cardboard shims finally quit holding and my window fell all the way down. I knew I couldn’t put off fixing it any longer, considering I’m in coastal AL and it’s ALWAYS the rainy season! Well I followed your walkthrough and the whole ordeal took less than 2 hrs, not counting the trip to the hardware store for a couple nuts and bolts (2 of the new regulator mounting bolt holes were untapped) and pulling the panel back off after realizing I left off the moisture barrier in my enthusiasm. Oops!
Finished just in time to start getting ready to go to Mobile’s Beer Fest. I’ll definitely be making a toast to Josh-n-Lisa!

Dale Goff
Mobile, AL

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:12:36 +0000

Having a problem with disconnecting the Motor wiring connector in step 10 in a ‘99 Sport. I pushed the red tab over and tried to pull mating connectors apart. Is there another tab to push while pulling apart?? Can someone confirm this.

By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:13:14 +0000

Josh&Lisa’s website is a real education on the many experiences Jeep owners have had with these crummy plastic parts that break under little or no use.
So far I’ve been unable to tell if the rear(right)door panels have only 2 screws or if there is a third one like the front door panels. Can anyone clarify this or describe how I might verify 2 or 3 screws???

By: Rusty Poole

Rusty Poole — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:04:44 +0000

Thank you so much saved us 300.00 was real easy with your help

By: Ty

Ty — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:49:39 +0000

Oh my goodness!!! I was told to take it to a dealer, but after seeing this I will be doing the job myself.

By: Matt Freeman

Matt Freeman — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:53:11 +0000

Forgot to add one thing: Used my dremel cut-off tool to cut off the tips of the self-tapping screws protruding through the metal regulator bracket so they wouldn’t hit anything.

By: Matt Freeman

Matt Freeman — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:51:14 +0000

Spotted this write-up while getting ready to go out and replace the regulator on my mom’s ‘04 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Saw the suggestions from some folks on fixing rather than replacing (if the issue is the plastic clip for the end of the cable) I’m pretty good at MacGyvering things so I decided to give it a go. It was easy and saved my mom $165. I was happy Josh hosted this site so I threw a couple bucks his way.

A couple of things I wanted to add from my experience: I used two self-tapping sheet metal screws and a piece of metal to hold the cable in place. I was very careful to make sure the cable was in the same position (same length) but then noticed that I couldn’t get the cable back on to the regulator. Turns out that the cable was not wound tightly in the motor since it broke.
Fix: plug in the motor (and switch - motor won’t work without its door switch plugged in) and run the motor up and down while keeping some tension on the cable. This gave me about 2 more inches of cable to work with and the rest is history.

By: John Anderson

John Anderson — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 22:13:54 +0000

After spending two days trying to get my new motor to work. I found the answer. If you close all doors wiht the PDM “passenger door module” connected and start the jeep is will reset the PDM and the passenger side windows and locks will work again.

By: Jeff Wilson

Jeff Wilson — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:43:30 +0000

I was recently dropping my sons off to an afternoon movie in our 2002 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited when as I pressed the button to bring up the passenger window we heard a loud pop sound in the door. Knowing that it probably wasn’t good, I rushed the boys into the movie, came back, to find the window half way down. I pulled it up and it went all the way down.

The next day I took it to the dealership, they told me that the window regulator was broken and would cost $590 plus taxes to replace. They charged my $59 for their diagnosis.

I relayed the details to my wife and she found this blog, which gave me the confidence to order the part for $239 the same day. I’m mechanically capable so the instructions were absolutely what I needed to put me on track.

I replaced the window regualator the next day, it took less that two hours.

Josh-n-Lisa you’re blog is awesome. Need I say I didn’t really have the $239 to spend so as $351 saving option your blog instructions were very welcome.

By: Jason Polocek

Jason Polocek — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:55:37 +0000

I just wanted to write and say thank you for the great info, I know now that I am not the only one with problems, but I seem to be the only one with this regulator. Jeep even had to find the right part the many times I had to take it in for warranty service, and now by reading this and all the posts and taking the door apart as well as the regulator, it looked nothing like what everyone described. Now with all that said, I now know that all my years and skills and experience as a shade tree mechanic and rigger will be put to the test with this, the 2nd, Chrysler POS to grace my garage. It took me all of about three hours to pull the regulator, diagnose the problem (cheap plastic), and fix it using steel wire, and putting everything back together, greasing it all up so it slides nice, and putting my door together. I dont know about everyone else but I have 100% confidence in my fixes and now need to repair all my other windows as they are all being held up by vise grip pliers on the window rails. I tip my hat to those of you with the parts you were supposed to have in your windows. Anyone can contact me if they need help with a 2006 jeep liberty crd POS.