R34 Sedan - Drivers Power Window Motor?

[jrm]

Hi again guys,

With all this warm weather, my drivers-side power window has been working less and less consistently (usually it goes down fine, but when going up slows down and then stops coming up). Then five minutes later, it'll go further up again, and you'll finally get it up. It seems to happen worse in the warm weather or if it's been sitting outside in the sun. At night or in cool weather it generally works fine.

I've tested the switch and it's definitely putting out a happy 12V and when pressing the switch with the door opened up I can feel the motor 'move' slightly when I press the button - but it fails to move the window itself. I've done some extensive searching on the forums and read up on R33 and these seem to have an external regulator/relay which fail a lot, but it appears as though on R34 (at least for the drivers-side) that this is integrated into the switch. It definitely seems like the voltage is getting out of the switch okay - so it all seems to point to a motor issue.

From further searches on the forums, whilst I could go to Nissan, but it looks like I could be up for $350-500 for a new motor! (ouch).

I live/work over in the Findon/Kidman Park area - are there any recommendations on reputable auto-elecs or someone who could assess/price/fix what's broke? Perhaps even get the existing motor repacked? (is this an option?)

Ever since my employer has put in a boomgate - which requires putting down the window to swipe an access card - I've been having more and more issues with the drivers window that I previously rarely ever used! Gah...

Anyways, any help is appreciated

Jenna

[Nightcrawler]

my R34 4 door drivers window has been playing up for 6 months. Sometimes the autoclose works fine, but most of the time the window goes up, then comes down 5cm like it has hit something. If I hold the up swtich up, then the wond closes and stays closed. Interestingly when I arm my alarm and the window windup kit activates, it ALWAYS closes fine. I am not that fussed and just live with it - wouldn't mind finding out a solution though.

[jrm]

my R34 4 door drivers window has been playing up for 6 months. Sometimes the autoclose works fine, but most of the time the window goes up, then comes down 5cm like it has hit something. If I hold the up swtich up, then the wond closes and stays closed. Interestingly when I arm my alarm and the window windup kit activates, it ALWAYS closes fine. I am not that fussed and just live with it - wouldn't mind finding out a solution though.

hey, mine would do that thing with the auto-up too before it started to play up more and more. I'd hit auto-up, it'd get to the top and then it'll like go back down about 5cm like it hit something. I'd just hit the regular 'up' switch and it would go up and stay up.

My alarm guy convinced me out of bothering with the auto-windup kit for my alarm though - so I don't have that - wishing i did now if it works cos at least then i wouldn't be forced to sit in the car trying to get it shut when I'm in a public car-park or something!

Man, I'm dying to find a solution - having an inconsistent window is driving me insane...

Jen

[Nightcrawler]

Auto window windup is one of the best mods I have ever done to a car - especially sinc eI am in and out of the car dozens of times a day. I only wish they did auto down too, when you disarmed the car with an aux button or something. Could be done I suppose - I might look into it.

My wife's Honda Accord Euro has factory all window wind down when you disarm the factory alarm and keep holding the unlock button - it is awesome to get hot air out on a hot day.

So is the remote start on some alarms .... or so I hear