The stress and strain of the window glass can wear on the plastic window clips on a Pontiac Grand Am, eventually essential to fractures and damage in the clips. The clips are and declared to occasionally crack under customary circumstances. Luckily, most Grand Am owners can remove the window glass and exchange the clips on their own. Most owners can imperforate the business within a date with commonly-owned tools.
Instructions
1. Embrace a petite pry bar persist the rear impression mirror trim plate and pry it gone from the door trim panel.
2. Pull the door exercise to the administer position to access the Torx retaining screw holding the door hold trim parcel on abode. Remove the retaining screw with a Torx screwdriver and pull the door crank trim quota from the door trim panel.
3. Lower the window glass into the door. Pull the window switch panel up from the door trim panel and unplug the electrical connector from the rear of the switch. Pull the window Eccentric person haft from the window Eccentric person on models equipped with guidebook windows.
4. Unscrew the retaining screws on the door trim panel with a Phillips screwdriver. The three screws are located remain the plastic reflector on the rear of the door, under the arm pull and due below the window switch panel that was formerly removed.
5. Embrace a humble pry bar latest the door trim panel. Pry the retainers on the rear of the door trim panel out of the retaining holes on the door then pull the door trim panel off of the door.
6. Peel the plastic water shield away from the door.
7. Remove the bolts holding the bottom of the window glass to the window regulator with a socket wrench. You may need to temporarily install the window switch panel or window crank to move the window to access the bolts.
8. Raise the window glass by hand through the window opening. Tilt the window glass once it's raised from the door and remove it from the window opening.
9. Remove the window clips from the bottom of the window glass with a Phillips screwdriver.
10. Install new window clips on the bottom of the window glass with a Phillips screwdriver.
11. Insert the window glass through the window opening and lower it into the door, resting the window clips onto the window regulator.
12.16. Plug in the electrical connector to the rear of the window switch panel. Set the window switch panel into the recess on the door trim panel.
14. Push the door trim panel back onto the door, lining up the retainers on the rear of the trim panel with the holes on the door.
15. Install the three retaining screws on the door trim panel with a Phillips screwdriver.
Install the bolts holding the window glass to the regulator with a socket wrench.13. Stick the plastic water shield onto the door. On models equipped with manual windows, push the window crank handle back onto the window crank.
17.Guide the door handle trim piece onto the door. Install the Torx retaining screw with a Torx screwdriver.
18. Push the rear view mirror trim plate back onto the door, aligning the retainers on the rear of the trim plate with the holes on the body.
