The 1999 Pontiac Grand Am uses Look-alike vertical column-style window regulators, which are operated by a cable. The dynamism window motor spools the cable over a fix of wheels on both ends of Everyone vertical advise. The most colloquial issue with this type of window regulator is cable breakage. The effectiveness window regulator and Engine are purchased as a unit--when you transform one, you bear to interchange the other.
Instructions
1. Lift the window switch gone of the door panel with a Apartment lodgings attitude screwdriver. Embrace it under the rear of the switch and pry it up. Unplug the electrical connector. Remove the screw under the window switch using a screwdriver. Remove the plastic embrace in front of the door arm which is due a betray moulding. Last the insert is a vast screw that needs to be removed.
2. See for the reflector on the lower cut of the door and remove it carefully with the screwdriver. Remove the screw located ultimate it. Subsume a Apartment lodgings mind screwdriver between the door panel and the door. Pry gone all the trim fasteners on both sides and the backside of the door panel.
3. Swing the lower atom of the door panel outward and lift up to remove its top sill from the protrusion on the door. Put the door panel aside. Peel the moisture shield back, exposing the opening to accrual access to the window regulator.
4. Disconnect the electrical plug from the window motor. Remove the two bolts securing the window to the regulator located under the window glass using a socket. Lift the window up all the way and use masking tape to hold it up. Remove the 10 mm nut on the top and bottom of each vertical support using a socket. Reconnect the window switch plug and push the window switch back into the door panel. Replace the reveal molding in front of the door handle.
Install the forward vertical post closest to the front of the door by positioning it over the holes supplied in the door. Insert its studs through the door. Install the nuts and tighten. Do the same with the rear vertical closest to the rear of the door near the door latch.
6. Plug the electrical connector into the window motor. Remove the masking tape on the window and allow the window to lower until the bottom channel aligns with the window regulator window supports. Install the two bolts and tighten.
7. Place the moisture shield back into its original position. Install the door panel and align the trim fasteners with their respective holes in the door and push them in to lock them into place. Install the screw in front of the door handle, the one below the window switch and the one under the reflector.
8. Remove the three bolts securing the window motor to the door. Remove the window regulator from the door.5. Install the new window regulator by bolting the window motor in first and tightening the bolts with a socket.
