power window falls an inch when rolling down

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Old 09-13-2015, 06:06 PM
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On my drivers side ever since I've had the car the power window will fall about an inch or so while rolling down. It starts rolling down fine then about half way down it will take a sudden fall of about an inch or so. Any ideas on what's going on here? I know I need to replace both window motors but the driver side that's doing it is actually still the better of the two motors.
 
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Old 09-14-2015, 09:49 AM
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yes it hapens to them all,you can get a new regulater an motor combo ,its eayer to install that way like 35.00 .i paid ,good mech can do it in an hour
 
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Old 09-14-2015, 11:05 PM
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sounds like something is coming apart. going to need to take door cover off and have a look. brb
 
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Old 09-14-2015, 11:09 PM
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some info here https://camaroforums.com/forum/lt1-l...25/#post639865 more on changing the window motor have a look at 14 and 14.5 https://camaroforums.com/forum/93-02...rt-here-38462/
 
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Old 09-16-2015, 10:17 AM
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Thanks. It's done it as long as I can remember but I didn't think about asking about it till I saw the other window related post. Funny thing is it actually didn't do it yesterday lol. Now I'm wondering if it's quit and I just didn't notice it quit doing it :P
 
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Old 09-16-2015, 09:42 PM
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It possible that the grease in the window guide tracks has dried out enough to become hardened and sticky instead of slippery. If the weather changed lately or became more humid, that may explain why is is temporarily cured. Take off the inside panel and re grease those tracks.
 
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Old 09-17-2015, 09:01 AM
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My mech greased the tracks last time I had the car in the shop. I may not have noticed but it could have stopped doing the falling thing after that :P I was just wondering what it could be cause by but the greased, non slippery tracks makes perfect sense. Thanks
 
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