Manual to power window ?

[Netopr]

Hi there, I own a 2dr 1999 cavalier...

I am planing on changing from manual to power window but I need some help:

1) Is it just 2 switches, 2 power window motor, and wire conected to this and the battery ?

2) Do I have to change the doorpanels, or can I just add some bondo and paint them (which I am planning to paint all the dash unit) ^_^


If im wrong, plz correct me !




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Thanks in advance

BTW: great forum


I know that there are some post of this on this forum but they havnt answer my Q's.

[01Cavy]

I'm not completely sure but I think you have to change the regulator to work with the motor instead of the crank. I'm converting my four door to power windows an locks and I bought kits with out switches to do it. They use the same regulator to power the window. I just went and bought factory switches to make it look more stock. I just need the power windows wire harness and I'll be set. Im having a problem getting it though because only one junk yard around here has it for a four door and they won't get it out of the car for me and its over $1000 through the dealership.

When I talked to the junk yard about getting the necessary part for power window using factory parts they told me I'd be better off buying the whole door.

[Netopr]

wao 1000 bucks, thats expensive (for me since I am a student)

does anybody knows a good and economic power window kit (2dr) without switches ?

[01Cavy]

Spal is what I'm using for my windows and commando for my locks. You can buy them with or without switches. I may be making the trip to Birmingham sometime in a couple of weeks an pray they have a four door cavalier that had power windows at the Pull-A-Part there. Then I can get my harness and the parts to replace my broken dash parts. The only bad thing about the power windows kits is hiding the hole. the piece the manual crank is hooked to sticks slightly out through the door panel...and that is going to be hard to cover and keeping it smooth. I may take it somewhere and see if they can't cut some out of the middle and weld it back together.

[ImSoYesterday]

Originally Posted by Netopr

wao 1000 bucks, thats expensive (for me since I am a student)

does anybody knows a good and economic power window kit (2dr) without switches ?

I can ask my teacher at vocational school to draw up a schimatic for one. He knows just about everything I think, well, he seems to. He has drawn schimatics for every idea I have came to him with and every other student as well. But there is a cool kit I saw you could probably mimic.

You put stoppers for a certain spot on the crank, and deactivate the crank from the window. Put a censor/switch at the stopper and put a motor there. The motor when you crank it forward rolls it whatever way you want it to. And the other way when you crank it back to the stopper on the other direction... Connecting the motors to the window is all you though.

[01Cavy]

Yeah I'd be interested to see what he comes up with. I really only need the part that connects into the switch. If I only had that I could wire the rest myself!

[ImSoYesterday]

Which part would that be?

Get a 1-positional switch and wire it to the motor. The motor will activate when the switch is toggled and the second you take pressure off the switch will disengage and the motor will stop. You can use a standard 1 position switch with a long attachment on it to eliminate the stopper, just make sure it is mounted properly so you get NO play in that switch. Make sure to get a fuse in your box or just a standard fuse holder, you shouldn't need more than a 1 amp fuse but go with 5 to be safe. I did the math. with a motor you will need, should run off of 9v or so. go to radio shack and pick up a resistor. Snow day today, I don't have my notes, but I will find out more about it tomorrow, I'm sure if I played with it at school tomorrow I could draw up a schimatic for you.

[01Cavy]

I'd rather use the factor switch. I don't want it to look like I used a kit for power window...i want it to look stock. Thats why I want to see if I can get someone to cut a little bit out of the middle of the arm on the regulator the crank is connected to so it doesn't stick through my door panel and that way I can use a stock door panel from a junk yard have no hole. I'm going to paint my interior anyways, so door panel color doesn't matter. As for the part I need...I need the plug on the wire harness, but the whole harness would be better. The harness plugs into the bottom of the factory switch on both front doors and back doors, and without that I can't wire the motors to the power windows switch. I don't want to just rig it to any switch, especially since I have all the parts I need except the harness, and the only junk yard close by me that has that part are acting like assholes and won't sell it to me becuase its "too much work for too little money."