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In this video, we're going to show you how to replace the rear window regulator on this 2012 Chevy Traverse. We show you on the driver's side, but the passenger's side is a similar procedure. The items you'll need for this is a new rear window regulator from 1AAuto.com, a 90-degree pick, T30 Torx bit and ratchet, or a T30 Torx driver, a door panel clip tool, a putty knife, a flat blade screwdriver, and a 10mm socket and ratchet with an extension.
Start off by prying off this triangular panel, and then you want to remove the panel behind your door handle. To do that, use a 90-degree pick, stick it through that hole at the top of the panel, and then just pry out on the panel. Using a flat blade screwdriver, pry off the panel on the door pull handle, and then remove these three T30 Torx bolts. We'll just fast-forward as Don does this. The clips on the back of these door panels are hard to get started, so what we do is we use a putty knife to protect the paint. Then we stick a clip tool up along the putty knife onto the clip. Then, using a flat blade screwdriver in between the two of them, you pry out and it will release that clip. Once you've got it started, reach up behind, pry and out on the clip, and you want to lift up the edges too and then lift the door panel up and over the lock and just pull it forward.
On the back of your interior door handle, you'll see this cable. You want to just push it out of the bracket and pull it up and out of the door handle. Then below it, there's this harness. Using a flat blade screwdriver, pry out this white clip, and then push the tab on the harness and pull it free. Using a pair of pliers, pry out these clips, and you do have to move them back and forth until they work their way out. Once the clips are removed, it will pull right off. Now, you want to carefully cut off your water shield, and you don't want to damage it, because you do need to put this back into place later.
Right here is your window regulator, and you want to start off by removing these two 10mm bolts. There's one right there and one right there. If your window is somewhere else, you just want to push it down to this point so that you can remove these bolts. Once those are removed, lift your window up and tape it into place.
Now, disconnect this harness by pushing on the tab and pulling it free. Now pry off this rubber tab, and you'll see a 10mm bolt right there, a 10mm nut there, and a 10mm bolt right there. We'll just fast-forward as Don removes those. Once those are removed, push the regulator back, down, and then pull it out.
In the back is the old rear window regulator; up front is the new one. You can see they're identical and they'll mount exactly the same. Take your new window regulator, feed it back up into the door, and then push that stud in the middle back through the door, and replace that 10mm nut, those two 10mm bolts, and tighten them up. Reconnect your harness.
Next, remove the tape from your window and push your window back down into the window regulator. You want to line up the holes on the window with the holes on the regulator and replace those two 10mm bolts. Replace your water shield and now replace that block and those two clips. Then replace that rubber cap and the one below it.
To reinstall your door panel, reconnect that harness and then replace the white clip that locks it into place. Take your door handle cable, put it back into the door handle, and then push it back into the bracket. Hang your door panel up over the lock and down into the window seal. Now look back behind the door panel and make sure the clips are lined up, and then hit them into place. We'll just fast-forward as he replaces those two T30 bolts in the pull handle and the one behind the door handle, and then replace the pull handle panel and that small panel behind the door handle. Then you're all set.
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Behind this interior door handle there is a cover. You can take a pick. There is a little cut-away, where you can grab underneath it and slide that off. There's some clips. Now we can take this trim piece off. Use a trim tool. Just try to get underneath here, and just pry it out. And it just slides off. Now there's three screws. You're gonna use a Torx driver, a T30, right there, right there, and right there. Take those three screws out. You can use a magnet to get that last bolt out. Now there's gonna be some clips, some push pins, all the way around the perimeter of the door panel. Just use a trim tool. You can start at the bottom. There is a little gap right in the middle here. You might have to use a combination of trim tools. And if you want to, you can take this little button off. You have to roll the window down and from the backside there's a little clip. You can pry that clip out with a straight-blade screwdriver. But you don't necessarily have to take that off, the door panel will slide over it. And then underneath this trim right here, pop that out. And slide the door panel out. And slide it up. There we go. And there's a cable right here. You have to remove that cable, it goes through the door handle. Just use a small screwdriver. There's two little ears that you have to push down. Or you can use needle-nose pliers also. All right, slide that out. Slide the cable with the ball end out. These are those little clips that you're gonna push down with the screwdriver. If you put a little pressure on it as you're pulling it out, you can push one down and then push the other one down.
Then disconnect the electrical connector right here. This is a little safety tab, just pull down on that. Push down on the connector, a little lock. There's two push pins right here underneath this foam pad, or above this foam pad. Just use a trim tool, get under these two push pins. And then just try to slide this off. Try not to break the foam pad. Now we can take this vapor barrier off. If you want to, you can use a knife and just cut some of the adhesive. That might make it easier to remove. Or just try to peel it. You might have to get some new adhesive when you put it on. For the most part, it should stick to itself. That's good.
At this point you can turn the key on and we're gonna reconnect the window switch because I wanna lower that window. And there's a screw right here and there's a screw that's gonna be behind this little access panel, so try to lower the window right about there. Then you're gonna disconnect the connector. And then turn the key back off. I'll take this little cover off right here. You can just use a pick. And then take a 10-millimeter socket. Take this bolt out right here. And the one that goes through that hole. Now the window should be loose, you can just grab the window and just slide it all the way up. It makes it easier if you have an assistant to hold the window while you tape the window, or vice versa. And just make sure the window's clean so the tape actually sticks to it. Now we can disconnect the electric motor. Just take a small screwdriver, disconnect the connector. And we're gonna take this plug off. Just use a pick tool, just get this plug out. And then you can access the bolt right there.
Take a 10-millimeter socket, take this bolt out. Take this nut off, and then there's another bolt at the bottom. All 10-millimeter. You might have to use a magnet to get that one out. And just grab the regulator and motor. And take the last nut off. Just slide it out. Just like that. Now take the new window regulator, and motor, and just slide it in position. Line that stud up. Get that nut started. And get the bottom bolt started. And get the top one started. And once you get them all started, then you can go back and snug them down. And then take the connector, plug the connector in. Now I'm just gonna wire-tie this wire, just so it doesn't get caught in the mechanism at all. Just so it's out of the way. And just trim the excess. And now turn the key on again and reconnect the switch, the window switch. Now I'm just gonna lower this down. Just so I can access it through that hole there.
Now, disconnect the window switch again and turn the key off. Now, grab underneath and hold the window. You should be able to take the tape off. And slide the window down. And line it up with the bracket on the regulator. There is a couple hooks that should hold it in place. Now take those two bolts and get them started. Right there. And through the access hole. And just tighten those bolts up. That's good. Now we can take these plugs, put this one back in. And same on the top. And slide the vapor shield in place. Take this foam pad, line it up and push the push pins back in. And reconnect the connector for the window switch. And lock it down. And take the cable for the door handle, slide it in right there. Slide the ball in. And lock it in place just like that.
Then you can take the lock rod and we'll line this up. Again, if you wanted to take that off, you could, but you don't need to. And just slide it in position, just like that. Now you wanna clamp the top part of the door panel into the door first, make sure that's all lined up. That's good. Then line the push pins up on the back side. Once those are lined up, you can just push the door. Push the panel back on. That's good. Now take the three screws, line those back up, then tighten 'em down. Now, take this trim piece, line it up. And snap it down. Then take this cover and line it in position. Lock it down.
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In this video, we're going to be working on our 2012 GMC Acadia. We're going to show you how to remove and replace your front window regulator and motor assembly. If you like this video, please click subscribe. We have a ton more information on this vehicle, as well as many other makes and models. If you need this part for your car, you can follow the link down in the description over to 1AAuto.com
Here are the items you'll need for this repair: 10mm socket, T30 Torx bit, ratchet, socket extension, painter’s tape, flat head screwdriver, razor blade, pick tool
Locate this notch in this cover panel inside of the door handle. Pull down. We're using a 90 degree hook pick here, but you could also use a trim tool or a small flat blade screwdriver. We'll also remove this cover inside the interior door latch. Again, there is a specific notch for you to pull from. Pop that panel out as well. This screw and the two behind the first cover we removed come out with a T30 Torx socket, a ratchet, and an extension. Lift up on your door lock. Using that same pick, we'll go in and release this panel to remove the actual lock.
On the bottom of the door panel, you'll find this notch which is designed for a plastic interior trim removal tool available from 1AAuto.com. You could also get this done with a pair of flat blade screwdrivers if you tape them up to try to protect the paint and the plastic panel, but these are the best solution for it. You want to push this up in between the panel and pry out until the plastic clip pops. You'll be able to see more of them as you pull more of the panel off. Get the forked end of the tool on either side of the pin and pry out. Be sure to hold the panel out, otherwise when you're moving around looking for these pins, and they could fall back in and make you have to start over. Once you have a few of the pins out, you may be able to just reach back and pull the rest of the panel out by hand.
Once all the clips are released, you can lift up, release the door latch cable by pushing up on the leg at the bottom and prying down on the one at the top, pulling the cable through the opening. You can then get the bare cable out. Slide it through the notch. Rotate it around, and pull the ball out of out of the release. Disconnect the electrical connectors through the door panel. It's the bottom green and bottom gray. Remove this clip retainer. This is another place where an interior trim removal tool comes in handy. We'll have to remove the clip from its retainer here as well and the gray one below it. Disconnect these as well. You can now set the door panel off to the side.
Then we'll use our trim removal tool or you could use a pair of side cutters to get back here and pry or a screwdriver, but this is the best way to do it without damaging the panel. Pry out on the two clips: one there and one down here at the bottom. Once the foam is out, we can remove this weather shield. The adhesive they use here can be pretty tough, so sometimes it's nice to take a razor blade and just cut right down the middle of the adhesive.
Once you get it going it's a lot easier to remove. We use our trim tool again, and pop out these two rubber plugs here inside of the door panel. This one reveals one of the bolts to remove our window regulator, with this one is an opening to allow us to access the bolt that clamps the window together. We'll have to move the window up now until we can see that bolt in the opening. Reconnect these two connectors that go to the window motor and regulator on our door panel.
We'll turn our key on in the vehicle, and roll the window up until we can get our 10 millimeter socket through that bottom opening, and onto the clamp for our window. Right there is perfect. Now we'll shut our key off, disconnect the panel, but keep it close because we'll need it again in a moment. Using our 10 millimeter socket ratchet and extension, we'll fully remove the 10 millimeter bolt here at the bottom of the window, and the other one which we can access through this opening now that we rolled our window up. Once those bolts are out fully, we can slide our window up and tape it up out of the way so we can get our regulator out.
Make sure you have painters tape ready to secure the window at the top of the opening. Alternative to the tip because it's a little cold in our shop for that tape to be adhering to the window properly, is to use little strips of cardboard. You want to tear them off about that big, fold them in half. You're going to want a few of these. The same concept that I've done with our trim tool here, and if you have these this is another option. Without the trim tool, you simply take the cardboard and wedge it in between the weather strip and the glass nice and tight. Go ahead and do that in a few places, and it will hold our window up while we work.
Disconnect these three screws securing the motor and the bottom of the regulator here with a 10 millimeter socket and ratchet, as well as the bolt that lays behind the top plug we removed earlier. Once the last bolt comes out, reach in and move the regulator until we can get the connector off the bottom of our window motor. Push that red safety tab out, and pull the connector down. Then it's just a matter of finding the right angle to get this regulator out of the truck.
The window regulator will be reinstalled with the motor facing out, and this stud is the one that came through the opening over here. We'll go ahead and place it back inside of the window. Be very careful not to bend this in anyway, otherwise it could change the path of your window going up and down, and potentially cause it to break. Connect the electrical connector to the bottom of the motor, and push that tab in until it locks. Make sure that the window regulator is on the front side of the glass, being between you and the window when you feel it up at the top.
Realign all the holes, as well as getting the stud back through. Reinstall all of your hardware. Once all the hardware has been started, tighten it down with your 10 millimeter socket and ratchet. Now place a hand underneath the window and remove the cardboard wedges we installed. If they fall down somewhere you can't get them, push the window down some, and then work it back up so you can get finger onto the cardboard. Lower the window back onto the regulator. The regulator should come in the correct place to reinstall the glass, but if it doesn't, reconnect the switch the same way we did before, and move it to the appropriate location. Once the holes are lined up you can reinstall your two 10 millimeter bolts into the window brackets.
Since we have to reach through the opening here to install this bolt, we want to make sure it doesn't fall out of our socket. You can put a little bit of break grease or White Lip wheel bearing grease, whatever you have handy. Just get a good thick coat of it there around the sides of the head of the bolt. When we put it into our socket, it stays in there while we line it up. Then you can tighten down your bolts with your 10 millimeter socket and ratchet. Now you're ready to reinstall your door panel.
Reinstall the access plug into the side of the door. Reinstall the weather shielding inside of the door. Just pat down along all the edges to make sure that adhesive sticks back together. This stuff's pretty resilient so as long as you don't tear it up too bad removing it, it sticks back together nicely. Then we'll take our foam insulator here, line up the pins, and push them right back into place.
Reconnect your electrical connectors. Remember that these two here have to be snapped back into their spots on the door before we can reconnect the mirror sides. Reinstall the door latch cable into the opening at the back of the handle. Pull the cable out, and then set the retainer back in. Lift your door panel up over the lock rod here. Once the panel's lined back up, snap all the retainers back into place. Once the retainers are all clipped back in, you can reinstall your three T30 Torx screws. Reinstall the plastic covers. These ones have tabs on the bottom that need to be set in first, and then you roll the clips at the top over until they snap. The one behind the door latch simply snaps straight into place. Slide the lock cover over as far as it'll go. Snap the latch back in.
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