How To Replace Window Regulator 2004 Bmw 325i

Replacing your Rear Window Regulator

Caveat lector

Ok, kids, that trunk lock actuator job was pretty easy but this 1 requires some manual dexterity. Please read this entire certificate before setting forth on your rear window regulator fixing journey. The hardest part was screwing in the top bolt of the regulator afterwards having had replaced information technology with the new 1. The second hardest part was putting the door cover back on. There are a few things you need to make sure of and I've underlined these below. Otherwise, the rest of the repair is smoove sailing.

I would HIGHLY recommend letting a professional exercise this repair if you have the rear airbags. I don't have rear airbags in my car and would non experience confident that it would not deploy upon the slightest fidgeting. Airbag deployment would likely crusade injuries or decease and would almost certainly ruin my weekend. If y'all don't accept rear airbags, and then go on at your own risk. Don't force anything. If it requires force, you lot're probably doing it wrong. Righty: Tighty, Lefty: Loosey. Doing this or any repair yourself may void the warranty. YMMV.

Symptoms: For me, it was the window rolling down just not wanting to roll support. It seemed as if information technology was caught on something. The window motor seemed to be working fine, yet.

Fourth dimension needed: Variable but most 1.5-2.5 hours Maximum.

Skill Level: Medium

Parts needed:

Left or Right Rear Window Regulator	$107 at Pacific BMW
10mm Cresent wrench	trunk toolkit
T20 Torx commuter	Pep Boys, Sears, ???
T25 Torx commuter
Small slot screwdriver used for prying, cover with electrical record then every bit non to scratch anything.	Pep Boys, Sears, Radio Shaft (Anybody and his dog has probably owns a set already)
Philips screwdriver	trunk toolkit
Extra white door clips (in example you pause whatsoever)	<50 cents a piece at Pacific BMW. Get a few.
Something flat but rigid for step number 4	I used a plastic ice scraper covered past a tubesock.

Removing Rear Door Console

1) Using a small flat screwdriver, pop open the screw embrace. Remove the Philips screw underneath.

2) Remove the under-door light past prying it down from the edge closest to the front end of the car and then removing the wiring harness.

3) Remove the window switch. Using a modest screw driver, just pry it upwardly. Remove from wiring harness.

4) Pry the door cover off the door itself. The door cover is attached using 9 white door clips and one blackness square-ish plastic piece. To remove the white clips, I covered an ice scraper with a thick tube sock so it wouldn't scratch the door paint. You might exist able to find more elaborate implements to employ every bit a wedge merely this worked fine for me. Each white door prune takes most 5 lbs of force to pop loose. Just utilise a gentle but firm pull. Please note that the lesser 2 clips are mounted on the black plastic of the storage bin. Scout where you pry.

5) Subsequently the door clips are off, pull, turn and push the door handle associates through to the within. Pull the door cover upwardly and out. (5-8 lbs of force to remove.) Again, be gentle but firm and wiggle it a piffling. (I'm talking about the door cover. 8) ) Don't pull the door embrace away too far - at that place is the speaker wiring harness that you lot still demand to disconnect.

6) Run across that black plastic piece that is on the postal service? Remove that by squeezing the pliers on the mail and sliding it off. 7) Pull off that sound proofing foam abroad from the door. Information technology is attached merely by this really tacky black agglutinative.

Replacing Window Regulator Assembly

8) Coil downwardly the window nigh 80% down. Using a torx T20 driver, unscrew this torx/washer combination. 9) Manually, pull the window upwardly to the very top/fully closed position. It should stay put at that place. Yous can also ask someone to hold it to make sure it stays in this fully closed position or alternatively you lot can use some tape. x) Remove the bottom bolt as well using the 10mm crescent wrench.

11) Ok, see this top starburst shaped bolt in the picture below? It'due south behind that soft plastic window. No, you don't get to it that way. It'due south likewise behind the glass window. If it weren't you could use a directly hex bolt driver only life isn't that easy. Get your 10mm crescent wrench, and stick your mitt nether the canvas metal and reach behind the window glass and remove the bolt.

12) Pull off the wiring harness of the window motor assembly. Using a Torx T25 remove the four torx screws from the motor assembly. These screws are pointed to at the correct. thirteen) Pull the regulator associates up and pull the bottom towards the front of the machine. Now you can slide it out. 14) Replace with the new window regulator assembly. Slide the assembly's bottom commodities into its cradle. Now here'southward the really difficult part: Screwing dorsum the top bolt requires a flake of manual dexerity. I spent what seemed similar a good fifteen-20 minutes just trying to screw this peak bolt back. See the project notes below for more details. 15) Tighten the bottom bolt. xvi) Screw the window motor assembly back to the door.

17) Pull the window downwards to the shuttle part and put the torx screw/washer back on. Set information technology back into position and spiral the T20 torx/washer assembly back on. Don't overtighten information technology to the point where the glass cracks!

18) Plug the window switch dorsum into the harness and make sure the window goes up and down (Oh yep, if it doesn't, make sure the cardinal is in the second position, the child window locks are not engaged. If the window is not moving freely, so unbolt the torx spiral/washer and brand sure the window glass is on the correct rails and hasn't rotated. Don't forcefulness anything if in that location is resistance or if the window is non on the right track or else yous might break the window.) Otherwise, If it'south working correctly/smoothly, then you're skillful to get.

Reattaching the Door Cover

19) Ok, make sure this lilliputian piece of metal for the door handle associates screw is over the larger hole. See the picture to the right. 20) Pull the 3 sets of wires through the slit. For the foam insulator, the factory adhesive stays tacky so it's doubtful you need more adhesive. 21) Slide this little piece of plastic dorsum on. I'd actually lube it up and so it'south not and then squeaky. See the moving-picture show below.

22) Re-adhere the speaker wiring harness and pull the two remaining wiring harnesses through their respective door cover holes so yous tin can admission them subsequently you reattach the door cover. (Easier done than said! ;^ ) These include the harnesses for the nether door light and the window switch.) Also pull the door handle assembly through the door cover before snapping the door cover back on.

23) For the door embrace, snap in the top part of embrace forth the window sill. This requires some work and playing with. Once you have that secure and looking skilful, motility on to...

23) Button the middle of the door embrace where that small black plastic piece is into the postal service. One time yous hear that click, then snap in the remaining 9 white door clips. In case the blackness plastic slice from Step 21 falls out, you volition need to feel your way into putting it dorsum into position.

24) Secure the Door handle assembly using the Philips screw and replace the cover. And finally reattach the wiring harnesses for the window switch and the under the door light. Re-mount the switch and the low-cal. That'southward it!

Project Notes:

i) That damn Top Commodities! I kept trying to spiral information technology dorsum in but information technology kept falling out. Finally, I just stuck my hand nether there and turned the bolt the kickoff few revolutions using only my fingers. Then finish it off using the crescent wrench. Simply it requires girlie artillery so yous EEs and programmers will have no problem. ***Time for me to hitting the gym.***

two) Remember that door handle screw hole clip in Step 19? Well, after I placed the foam and the door comprehend back on, it dropped to the bottom of the door. I wasn't about to take the door cover off once more, so I went to order information technology at the dealership. It was a special order slice and volition cost me $ane. I likewise had to cut a pocket-sized pigsty and so I could reattach information technology. Volition postal service motion-picture show once I go the part in.

3) Beneath is a motion picture of my old window regulator. The cables are rusted and have fallen out of their guides.

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Updates

The only thing differnet for me was that where the tip speced a Torx20 I need a Torx30 on a 1999 528

Dan

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March 2003 - by VLM

a. Footstep i should refer to the door handle.

b. Extra steps in between step 4 and v to remove door panel with manufactory shades. The steps are
i. Remove blind on side window by unhooking the blind at top (insert a small screw driver on
side hole to lift hook) and pull blind forward. Meet hook at top of window in motion-picture show beneath.

two. Remove the wood trim by prying it out with bare hands. Be conscientious to pull gently to ensure that you don't
break it.

3. You lot should come across window exposed equally in moving-picture show higher up. At present remove the three screws that secure the panel
to the sheetmetal. 1 merely above the door panel and the two through the holes in console where the wood
trim was. Annotation to remove the two screws through the holes and not the ones exposed considering those
hold the main roller blind to the door panel.

Now you can follow pace 5 to remove the door panel. The above two pictures testify the 3 clips that
agree the meridian part of door panel in identify. So you must lift the panel upwardly to free it from the door.

This picture above shows how the roller blind is secured to the door panel.

Notation on how to secure the top commodities.
Apply a piece of scotch record to tape the bolt into place and install the regulator per step fourteen.
Slide the top portion of the arm until you hear the commodities pop in place so use a small screwdriver to turn the
screw several turns. I was able to secure the elevation bolt in under 5 minutes with no frustration.

I also used a Torx30 in step viii.

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June 2003 - Jae Lee

After replacing your window regulators, your Auto Lowering/Raising functions for your window might not work.

Hither is the reprogramming procedures.

Activating Automatic Lowering Function:
i. Turn Fundamental to 1
2. Lower your window fully (manually)
3. Hold on to it for 30 seconds.
4. Washed

Activating Automatic Raising Functions:
1. Turn Key to 1
2. Raise your window fully (manually)
3. Hold on to it for thirty seconds.
4. Done

Hope this helps~

Jae Lee

Source: http://www.bmwtips.com/tipsntricks/windowregulator/regulator.htm

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