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Old Nov 21, 2012 | 09:56 PM
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Default Power window motors the same?

Are both the power window motors for a 2002 Trans Am the same, passenger side works for drivers side if it came off another car?
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Old Nov 22, 2012 | 12:57 AM
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....yup

get used to replacing these. I'm on my 6th replacement motor... it is a lot of work. I would not install a used motor on my car.... not worth it.
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Old Nov 22, 2012 | 02:17 AM
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Have you tried cleaning the motor out and soldering a wire in place of the thermal strip? My window has been great ever since. Quicker too.
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Old Nov 22, 2012 | 08:21 PM
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I heard that will eventually break the window track?
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Old Nov 24, 2012 | 07:16 PM
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Can't imagine how it would. It does not give the motor super strength or anything. If a track breaks after doing it then it would have broken putting a new motor in it so it was on its last leg anyways.
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Old Nov 25, 2012 | 07:12 AM
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Buy two new motors from some local place that stocks them, and have a lifetime warranty.

Install the motors, and be ready to do it again every other year.

Im doing my again in the spring.

There are places that make a kit that "fixes" the wiring problem, that would be a root cause fix.
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