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Hi I'm Mike from 1A Auto. I hope this how-to video helps you out and next time you need parts for your vehicle, think of 1AAuto.com, thanks.
In this video, we're going to show you how to replace a power window regulator on this 2003 Honda Civic 4-door. Procedure is basically the same with any '01 to '05 Civic 4-door with power windows. We'll show you the driver side. Passenger side is basically the same procedure. Many times it happens when your regulator fails, you'll hear a popping and a grinding noise and the window just kind of falls down to the door. Tools you'll need are a small flat blade screwdriver, Philips screwdriver, a door panel clip tool or a putty knife to help pry the door panel away from the door and a 10mm socket with a ratchet and an extension.
To remove the door panel, we'll start up here and pull firmly on that piece of trim. Get a smaller screwdriver right at the top, inside your door handle, there's a little indent little the door that comes down. Now use a screwdriver or just your fingernails and pull off this panel right here. Pull it firmly out and it comes off. Then there are two Philips screws in here and right in here so remove those. I'll speed up here as I remove those screws. Again, just using that Philips screw driver and get those out. Sometimes they don't come all the way out of the door and that's fine. Just when you pull the door panel off, just watch where they might drop out.
After you do those then there are two screws right in that door handle. Remove those. All right. Pull your door handle out. There's a little tab on back of your door lock switch. Press the tab. There's a clip that holds the door lock right on. You'll need a screwdriver or your finger to push the clip off then pull that up and off. There's a little tab right here where you're power window switch, press that and disconnect your power window switch. Now, using the door panel clip tool, get right in behind here up until you meet a clip, pull it out, go around the clip. Pull the door panel up and off. While doing that, a couple of clips came off. Just slide the clips right back in place, there and down here. Use a small screwdriver to pry up the little plug at the top corner of each door that hold the water shield on and then slowly and carefully pull the water shield down so you can actually access the inside of the door. You want to take care not to rip or stretch out the water shield too much. Okay these regulators are cable actuated and a lot of times what happens is the cable break, the window just falls down into the door and you can actually kind of grab on the window and move it up and down freely but obviously it doesn't stay up.
Now on my vehicle, in this vehicle the regulators are actually in good shape. What you would want to do is have probably a helper lift up the window so these two bolts are visible through these two holes and these bolts are the bolts that hold the window through the regulator so you need a 10mm bolt and you want to remove those. We'll speed up the video here. I'll use a 10mm socket and ratchet with an extension to remove those two 10mm bolts. Okay, lift that window up. Tilt it forward, put the front down and slide it up and out.
Okay, here is your lead for the window motor, press that and disconnect. What you'll want to do is then loosen up these three 10mm bolts. Loosen up this bolt here. Remove that bolt, remove this bolt and loosen that bolt. Okay, fast forward here as I kind of pull out and up on the connection to get it off the clips in the door and then there's another little clip. You just kind of press, squeeze the fingers and push it through and then I'll use my 10mm socket and ratchet with extension and loosen and remove the bolts as I talked about in the last scene.
Okay, lift this up. Lift them up on the motor. Here's a new regulator from 1A Auto. All the specs are the same. What I am going to do is just remove the bolts from the window motor and put them into the new regulator. I'll fast forward as I do this. What I'm doing is removing the bolts from the old window motor, the three bolts that hold it on and then just kind of threading them into the new window motor and also the two bolts remain on the regulator rail threading those into the same places on the new regulator rail.
All right, I'll put the motor in, reach in here and grab the motor and the new regulator in lifting the regulator rail up by that bolt and that bolt. Bringing the motor over here. Let's speed up the film here as I tighten up the three bolts that hold the window motor to the door and then turn my attention to the rail. You want to put the two bolts in that you removed and then tighten all four of those bolts up. When you tighten these bolts, you want them nice and firm but you don't have to crank them really, really tight. Just good and firm.
Okay, reach in and pull out your harness and reconnect it and put the pins back in place. Now take your window, feed the nose down in first, okay, and then twist or rotate it back and just make sure that the front goes into the correct channel and the rear goes into the correct channel. You should be able to get it leveled and then you will be able to slide it down nice and easy, slide it down to the regulator. Now take the two bolts that hold the window to the window regulator. You may have to just kind of move the window a little bit to get the holes line up but feed those in there with your extension and socket and then tighten them right up.
Now put your water shield back in place. Use the two plugs on the top. Pop them into place and make sure you place it on and seal it on the rest of the way around. Replace the lock first and lift it here through the harness and there, lift it up, snap it towards the window and then hit all the way around The door handle, put the broad end in. Lock the clip on, connect the lock button and put it first into place. Fast forward here as I put those two screws that hold the door handle in place back in, tighten them up firmly. Put the harness up, replace the two Phillips screws. Speed it up again as I install the two screws that hold the door pull part of the panel in place. Put this back in first and snap it right on and the two that go in the bottom. Snap that in place. Then put the trim here. Snap that up.
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Hi, I'm Mike from 1A Auto. I hope this how-to video helps you out, and next time you need parts for your vehicle, think of 1AAuto.com. Thanks!
In this video, we're going to show you the window regulator replacement. This is a 2003 Honda Civic. This will be the same for any 2001 to 2005 two door coupe. We show you on the driver side, but the passenger side is the same procedure. For this, you're going to need a new window regulator from 1AAuto.com, small flat blade screwdriver, Phillips screwdriver, 10mm socket ratchet or wrench, and some duct tape to put your water shield back on.
With a 10mm wrench, loosen the negative battery cable terminal and disconnect the negative battery cable. Start out, there's a screw in here and two screws behind here. To get this screw, you pull up on this trap door. Pry the top and pull down to expose two Philips screws here. All right, you pry up on the front of this panel, pull it up and out, and on the harness there's a little tab. Press the tab to disconnect.
Then up on the door handle, pull out, there's a little clip right here. Push the clip off. Pull the lock up and out. Two screws, one here and one here. Remove those. Unplug. Now we're going to remove this top with a quarter turn. Let it hang to the side, and then there are clips that go into the door that you need to release all the way around. You want to put your fingers in underneath and pull firmly. This door panel's been apart before, so it came apart pretty easily, but you want to release them on the bottom and then up top here. Up top here, and then the panel should pull up off the window ledge and off.
There are two plugs that hold your water shield on here, and there's one here. You can see somebody's already ripped the shield around that. You want to avoid doing that. Needle-nose pliers, just grab ahold right in the middle. Avoid stretching it or tearing it.
Disconnect the lead for your window motor. First, what you want to do is get the little clip out. I'm reaching back in behind and pushing down on one of the tabs on the clip, and then I pull the clip out. You can see there, there's the clip. There's just two little tabs that hold it in. Then disconnect the lead, push on this button here, and disconnect.
These cars have a cable-style regulator, and there's a rail right here. Generally, what happens is the cable breaks, so you hear a popping and then a grinding noise, and when you press your power window switch, you'll hear your motor trying to work, but the window doesn't go anywhere.
Sometimes the window will fall down into the door. Generally, you want to lift your window up. You'll see two bolts that hold the window regulator to the window right here. 10mm socket ratchet and extension, and we'll fast-forward as I remove those two bolts.
With those bolts out, the window lifts right up and out. Seven bolts hold the regulator to the door. You need to remove these three, and then loosen these four. We'll fast-forward while I do that.
Need to remove this clip. You could use a pair of pliers or just squeeze it with your fingers. Push it back into the door, and then push the harness into the door as well. Same thing over here. Just get this out of the way, then you can lift your regulator up, and if it doesn't come up, you can just take this bolt the rest of the way out. Lift the window motor up so the bolts go through. The whole thing slides out.
We took the original regulator out of the car. At 1A Auto, we sell two versions. We sell a high-quality version. It has the same connector, obviously. It has the clip here and the other clip. Japanese-made motor, very high quality, will last you longer than the vehicle. Then, we also have our value brand, which is less expensive, doesn't quite have the same details, it's missing the clip here. The motor is just not quite as strong, as high-quality, as the other version, but it's still well-made and it'll fix your problem.
Okay, reinstall your regulator. Feed it in. You can hang this bolt up here first, and then reach, push your motor in, and reach in with this hand, pop into place, and hang that up there. Now, we're going to reinstall the three bolts and tighten everything up. We'll fast-forward as I do that. Clip that back in. Then, grab your harness, clip it in up here, and reconnect the harness.
All right, I've reconnected the battery. I'm just going to turn the key on, kind of a little test. You can reconnect your switch. You basically want to move the regulator so you can see the mounting holes for the window. You can hear the regulator going. Now, I have the bracket in the right spot.
Window back in, put the front down in, and then tilt it backwards. Bring the front up, make sure it goes into the weather strip in the front, and make sure it goes correctly into the back and it slides nice and easy. Put the two bolts back in that mount the window to the regulator. I just load them kind of into the socket first and then carefully put them in. If you drop them down, it's pretty easy to reach in there. We can fast-forward as we tighten those up.
Okay, battery connected, key on, just do a quick test with the window in place. Everything's working well. Put your water shield back in place, pull the harnesses through there, and use your two push clips, one in the front here. We use a little extra duct tape to hold it up.
Then I'm going to take the push clip, I'm just going to kind of pinch the shield in there, push the clip in, and then secure it around the edges. Make sure this is out of the way, bring your panel up. Make sure the small harness goes through your door handle hole, and then the larger harness needs to go through for the power windows, then lift it up. Just make sure that the harness for the speaker doesn't get caught. Push it towards the window and down onto the ledge. Start in the front. Get your lock to come through. Be sure your lock comes through, push it down on the window ledge, and it should be right in place, and reinstall the clips. This clip right here, it's been put in incorrectly too many times, so we have to actually guide it into the hole. Here's the hole.
Reinstall your upper trim panel here. Reinstall the two screws for the door pull. We'll fast-forward as I do that. Reconnect your power window switch, and then the back goes down in first in place, and reach back your door lock switch. Put the latch rod back in place, and then spin the clip around. Reach in, put that back in place. I'll just fast-forward as we put those fasteners back in place. Then put that trim panel back in place. Put the last screw back in place, and flip the trap door down. Reconnect your negative battery cable, and tighten with a 10mm wrench.
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