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Old 09-16-2008, 08:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Gilly View Post
I would disagree on the 50-50 failure rate of motors to regulators. Usually it the regulator that breaks, where the pivot is that joins the regulator to the window, probably about 75% of the time, this is the failure. The window will stop going all the way to the top first (that's when it first breaks), then it stops all together.
Gilly
Would you say this is true even on the CAN equipped cars? MB Doc seemed to say these motors/modules were a weak point on those.
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