# Power Windows... dying motor or amp problem?

**URL:** <https://forums.speedlife.net/t/power-windows-dying-motor-or-amp-problem/113885>\
**Category:** SON240sx Automotive\
**Created:** [March 14, 2008, 10:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/power-windows-dying-motor-or-amp-problem/113885 "2008-03-14T22:55:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![sommmatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@sommmatt](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sommmatt)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 10:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/power-windows-dying-motor-or-amp-problem/113885/1 "2008-03-14T22:55:08Z")

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Hey all. So my driver’s side window wouldn’t go up today. I was all like wtf, and I needed it up because the car is left outside and all that so yeah. I realized it would go up, like a half centimeter at a time, and then I could wait 3 seconds and hit the button again and it would go another half centimeter. Then of course when I was almost 90 percent of the way up, i accidentally hit the down (and it’s an auto down) so the whole thing went back to the bottom. Slowly the process started again, and when I got to around 50% it just started working again and went up without a hitch.

Could this be an issue with the motor, or does it sound like something in the amp? I read the S14 PW amp issue guide thing on 240sxtech, would that apply to the S13 as well? Oh and then I managed to break the trim piece. Anyway, any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks  
Matt

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**Author:** ![InSaini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/53a042/32.png) [@InSaini](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/InSaini)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 10:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/power-windows-dying-motor-or-amp-problem/113885/2 "2008-03-16T10:02:16Z")

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If it works good now, don’t sweat it…

It will be the amp if you try and put the window up \ down and you hear a CLICKing noise… to test the motor, take a booster pack, small wire connected to the POS and a small wire to the NEG. and insert each wire into 1 of the 2 connectors to the window motor (if u switch the pos and neg wires, it will either go UP or DOWN, by switching em around)

do that before u buy the motor, i didn’t ☹ out 140$ ☹

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**Author:** ![sommmatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@sommmatt](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sommmatt)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 6:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/power-windows-dying-motor-or-amp-problem/113885/3 "2008-03-17T06:08:56Z")

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Thanks for the advice. I’m really not sure if it works… once I got the window up I haven’t touched it (especially with temperatures dropping again I don’t need a window stuck open on a parked car).

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**Author:** ![japdrifter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@japdrifter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/japdrifter)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 7:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/power-windows-dying-motor-or-amp-problem/113885/4 "2008-03-17T07:22:00Z")

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have you ever had your window(s) coming from the down position to the top struggling, like mine when i try to close the window it jerks side to side a bit and squeels, it even left a vertical scratch on the tint, so i tried lubricating it that turne out like shit, just wondering if you ran into that problem b4