I hear a lot of stuff about our window motors dieing. I've noticed mine have slowed down lately but no where near as slow as one I tried at a dealership.

Is it heat, moisture, or lack of lubrication? I have my doors apart so i thought I'd do some maintainance on them if they need it.

 

Lack of lube can cause it but mostly it just a poor design.

 

They are just bad is all, not that big a deal, you can get new ones on ebay for $20 and it takes less then an hour to do.

 

I put both motors on at the same time, forgot to lube the drivers side. The passanger side works perfect, however the drivers side is dieing fast.

- Z28WannaB

 

How are you supposed to lube them? I covered as much of the moving parts as i could with wd40, should that be sufficient?

 

WD40 wont help. white lithium grease is what you need.

 

Condinsation can kill the motors if you live in a humid part of the country.....i opened my drivers motor and found about a cup of water came out.

 

mainly bad design. ive also heard they suffer from being under powered. i think they switched to a cheaper vendor right around the debut of the 4th gen. the original window motors in my 92 fullsize truck still work awesome, and that thing has 192k miles on it. There are permanent marks in the window from going up and down so many times and yet it still works great.

 

Get in there with some white lithium, as stated. Also, make sure the thing isn't about to fall out...those rivets don't really stand up over time. There's nothing like coming to a hard stop and hearing a loud *crash* *bang* *clunk* inside of your door!

 

Use white lithium grease. I've read on here that the windows are just under powered. Someone wired up some relays and said that helped them a lot. Also there was a post about taking the motors apart and doing some sort of internal wiring mod to them that makes them run better/last longer. It was a long time ago. A search might bring it up.

 

I suggest autozone. They have a lifetime warrenty on them and are only $50. I just got a new one from them this last weekend. I still had the receipt from the last time i bought one from them in 01. They gave me a new one no questions asked.

 

http://web.camaross.com/forums/showthread.php?t=145075

Here is a good post about modifying a motor, supposedly you get more speed out of them.