Wow, thanks Colin!! Man, you amaze me every day!! I have an appointment to take my car in on Sept 6 (earliest they can take me in). I didn't talk to Jerry to make the appointment, but when I told them about my battery (my other post about it being drained after 2 weeks), the guy's answer was, yeah that's seems normal and possible. I was like in 2 weeks the battery could die?? He said yes.

I'll call Jerry tomorrow. I think Jerry's a great guy too. That's why when he told me I had to pay for it, I believed him and trusted him.

Thanks again Colin!

 

They tell me its a quick thing to do, but its so busy over at 401/Dixie that he's going to ask for it early and try and 'juggle' it in when there's a free bay. He tells me I'll have it back after lunch. Here's hoping...

I'll let everyone know how mine goes and do some snoopin' - the guy who works on my car is a young guy and we seem to get along, I tend to get alot of the 'scoop' off of him. So we'll see

Al

 

Hi Deane,
With so many owners having this issue, I'm surprised that there isn't a TSB or recall yet. I don't have #'s but it seems that 1 out of 2 owners is affected to some degree (and many are repeats)....

The '03 Coupe my bro has now (was mine) has been in 2x - driver's door.

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.....Off topic, but we're getting the 'dregs' of Katrina right now.. I'm very thankful that she's lost her fury...all we're getting is a steady rain which will continue into tomorrow.
God bless the people in the southern states especially N.Orleans. Yikes.

Only a month 'til our big trek east.

Colin

 

Hi Tauseef, no problem bro, I needed to talk to him anyway about other business, so I called him now instead of later. It's cool.

He'll go over your file with you and explain what's what. I don't know why he would ask you to pay for it, and further, he didn't have your file on hand today, but as I said, he did say it should be warranty and that it's covered for "4 yrs. and 100k"!

You can be sure he'll help all he can. See how you do tomorrow and on the 6th.

G/L
Colin.

 

Hi Al,
I'm not surprised that it's a "quick thing"...they've prolly done a few (thousand?) by now.

The tech who works on your car would be a great source of info. If you get a chance to chat, ask him some details of the issues, the fixes, and the frequency of incidents (Sedan & Coupe).

Good luck and post up when you can.
Colin.

 

Yep, I agree it's overdue for a TSB. I had the problem a few times before but it corrected on it's own so didn't get mine in until the most recent incident.

We've had some rain and a bit of wind but nothing out of the ordinary. In another month we'll be starting our typical mini hurricane season here. Maybe you guys will even get a taste of it while you're here!

Looking forward to it. We'll keep the fingers crossed the gas prices decline before then.

Deane

 

Sorry for the delay in replying to this thread. I spoke to Jerry this morning. He said they will replace my motor in the window, but never mentioned anything about a refund on what I paid already. I guess I'll find out when I go in on Tuesday. He did ask me about my KM's so I wonder if resetting the sensor is not covered till 100 KM. I'm currently at 79,800 KM.

Thanks again for all your help Colin!

 

Tauseef,
I'm glad you will get some satisfaction with the upcoming fix.

As you say, talk to Jerry on Tuesday and get the 'scoop'....he'll treat you right.

Colin

 

Colin,

I'll keep you posted on how things go on Tuesday! Thanks again!!

Tauseef

 

Things seem to be going well. It works fine. The only two major differences I can detect are: 1) the motor is a tad louder (lower buzz) than I recall it being, however, with my motor slowing dying (??) maybe it was just what I had become accustom to. 2) I could usually detect a slight gap as the glass lowers, after opening the door (seen by the front corner where our mirror is attached to the door) But now, it is hardly detectable. I thought they might have not programmed it to do it, however when you close the door, you do still hear the brief "vrup" of the window closing the entire way up.

That's it, Dixie/401 took the car off of me around 8:30am and I had a call that it was ready at about noon. They even had a loaner car waiting for me - which was a surprise - but that might've been because I'm usually there waiting for my car ordinarily. Manny's great over there - he did me proud - seeing that they were mega swamped and basically within 3 days he slid me in and juggled jobs around to get my motor swapped.

I'll keep everyone posted on any changes or if my PASSENGER motor goes next!

Cheers,
Al

 

Al,
That must be a relief to have that fixed ..... Thanks for the update. Please post any future issues.

Jeremy,
Whats the latest on your fix? Are the new parts now ?

C.

 

Bump for this thread cuz my passenger window is doing the stutter. I first noticed when i went to put it down the motor stayed on all the way at the bottom. It went up fine then freaked out and did the stutter on the way down and got stuck there.

 

the parts are $500 bucks , kijiji guy i think sells it around 300, but with the labor rate its easily $500 for regular mechanic and $700+ (out of warranty) with dealer.

 

There are other posts on this already and how to fix it yourself. I have had to do both of mine and it is fairly easy. The motor just needs to be cleaned where the brushes make contact inside. After many uses, the carbon build up from the brushes in the motor stop the brushes from making proper contact with the armature and therefore when you bang on the door it will sometimes free up the brushes temporarily but will lose contact again if not cleaned.

Do a search on window motor and you will find alot more information on how to do this.