- Designed to be OE specific, direct fit assemblies that fit and function exactly like the OE equivalent
- Re-designed by Dorman engineers to eliminate failure points
- A quality part backed by a Dorman limited lifetime warranty
Product Description
No one in the aftermarket wants to be forced to source parts from, or send their customers to, the OE dealer. The better alternative is Dorman OE Solutions, a line of application-specific, new-to-the-aftermarket hard parts. OE Solutions products are often Dorman-engineered to be better than the original OE design. OE Solutions products are competitively priced to their OE alternatives and often include components necessary to complete the job that the OE Dealer c… More >>
#1 by J. Whitmore on April 15, 2010 - 2:36 pm
This product is 100 bucks cheaper than ordering it through Ford BUT….
At first glance it looked just like the old regulator I pulled out of my door but then I noticed that this one’s motor was literally half the size as the Ford OEM equipment. This didn’t seem like a big deal at the time but after the install and hours of fiddling I could still only get the new regulator to close the window completely 3 out of 4 times without stalling. And at half the speed of the origional at that.
Some time saving tips if you are going to try this product:
You will have to drill out two rivets to dismount the window from the origional unit and I recomend getting the special replacement rivets from Ford before hand. OR you could do what I did and use 2 1/4″ bolts 2 flat washers and 2 nyloc selflocking nuts. You need self locking nuts because of this next tip. And to clarify, No it DID NOT come with any type of installation instructions, diagrams or mounting hardware.
It seems that the special rivets don’t sandwich the two pieces together comletely and leave the pieces room to move around on each other as one hole is slotted. So you will need the self locking nuts to make that fine adjustment without worring about your nuts and bolts coming apart. This is important because if you tighten the nuts and bolts completely the window has not any room to move back and forth on the regulator as it travels up and down on the rails and will cause the motor to stall out.
And finally when you get completely fed up and notice that the two motor mounts are simular enough to swap them around so you can still have your twice as torquie OEM motor DON’T DO IT!
Even though you might be mechanically inclined enough to do the swap you are not prepared for that can of worms.
When you a knees deep in this swap and have the drive boxes open swapping the cable from one drive drum to the other and putting everything back together, somewhere between that point and actually testing the conversion fully installed in your door you will realize that the drive drum from the OEM and from the Dorman are two different diameters. Now also somewhere between those two points you are going to realize that because the drums are different sizes that will also mean that so are the cables….. And if you don’t know where I am going from here you should just know that different cable legnths mean your window will not have the full range of motion that it did before.
SO…. to save you a lot of time spent in Dorman hell, I did it for you and I’m here to tell you that if you cannot get the new regulator to work the way the old one did these are the steps that I already tried for you. Hope my experence helped you out in your decision to NOT TO BUY THIS PRODUCT.
Rating: 1 / 5