I was at the drive thru and went to put my window up. All of a sudden it dropped and now the window won't come up. My family and i are on vacation and now I'm driving with duct tape holding the window up. An invitation for anyone to come see what's inside the van when we park and go sightseeing. Is it the regulator? Motor? Whole assembly? I'll hit up an autozone and hopefully get it fixed before day's end.

Thanks

 

What year?

I had this happen on my Dodge minivan and the problem was the spool of braided cable busted and then the window drops. Whole winch assembly had to be replaced.

 

It's a 2006 and my family and I are on our 2,500+ mile road trip. I tried this fix first.....

But it failed.......came out from one of our stops to find the window wide open because the tape gave.....

So I then came up with this solution......




This seems like it should hold for the next few days and then i can fix it when we return home. Pray for me! We'll be parking in a city lot for a few days and I didn't want duct tape inviting theives.

 

Will do.
I haven't been into the front doors enough to know much about them.

 

Yes it's the regulator assembly. If you can wait, don't get any of the part store replacements. They're junk. You can get a Motorcraft from Amazon or Rock Auto for a good price. Mine decided to do the same thing on a road trip. I used a video grip to secure it.

 

Yeah, that's what I plan to do. No rush at this point. It seems secure enough to last the remainder of our trip.

 

Sorry vice grips in my previous post. I installed an AC Delco regulator when I first got my van and in less than 10,000 miles, it failed.

 

I was going to suggest a shim to hold it in place, so you could let it down when you need, but zipties will do the job for now!

 

Here's 2 tools I've also found useful this trip



Haven't been able to get the distance till empty to reset though

 

What phone app are you using? 15.9 mpg? That's great for a road trip. E350 5.4 liter?

 

It's the torqure pro app. I'll have to calculate my receipts and mileage to confirm but i have a 6.8 E350

 

Damn, I average 12.8 with my hightop extended with a 5.4L.

 

Based on my manual calculations, my MPG is more like 12-13. Thankfully we made it home safely but more gremlins did arise along the way. I backed out of a parking space put it in drive and the van shut off as i attempted to take off. It started right back up and it didn't happen again. That was only halfway through the trip and i was very worried. I checked for codes but didn't get any.

On the way home the check engine light came on. I checked the codes and got a code i had a few months ago, P0193. I cleared it and it didn't come back until now. Months and a couple thousand miles later. We continued on and eventually got home. The other day I went to start the van and it ran very rough initially. A check of codes now came back with a cylinder 9 misfire. I already planned on getting it to a shop before our next trip but now it's even more imminent. This is a 2006 with just over 70k miles now. I had already planned on getting a full tune up but is there anything else i should just change replace as a preventative measure while it's in the shop? I'm sure everything on it is probably original equipment.

the p0316 is misfire detected upon start up or within 1st 1000 revolutions (something along those lines)

 

That's most likely due the pending fault for Cylinder #9's COP potential failure. Its NOT necessary to change every other COP if just one is bad---I'm driving a 2000 E250 with just over 285K miles still running on at least 5 original COP's. Boots and plugs have been changed twice since it first came to me with 203K miles on it---they're long lasting.

If this does go to a trusted shop make sure they do an actual fuel pump test---they'll have the proper procedure necessary to check the entire fuel delivery system.

Good luck with this---let us know how it turns out please.

 

Thanks for the advice and I will definitely post back with an update. I was just thinking about just changing them all as a precaution and while it was already exposed and being worked on for the spark plugs. I don't plan on doing any of the work myself and I'd hate to have to pay someone to go back in if another one goes bad sooner than later. I'm not comfortable working on the van myself knowing that we intend to use it for long trips and eventually long trips plus towing.