Hi guys i have a 99 honda prelude and my driver side windows wouldnt close anymore It can only go down easily and i almost have to push the window with force up so it will close, but even then it doesn tnot close all the way. When i first bought the car the driver side window went up and down really slowly and through the last 3 months it has been getting worse and worse until now i can barely move the window up or down.I do not have a problem with my passenger side though.

Thanks for the help

 

did you have tints installed?...mayb they messed up ur window when they did it...

check all the rubber around the outside edges of the window...check if all of it is IN FRONT of the glass...it mayb be twisted or something somewhere (mayb even down inside the door...

 

No i did not put in tints
its been getting worse since i bought the car in august
I cant seem to get to the door panel. I can get the outside clips but i cant get the inside clips off/

 

window motor probally, if its been getting progressively worse since august i'd say either something is slightly in the way and making it harder and made it overwork or it was just its time to go. either way replacing window motor is strongly recomended

 

Once you get the screws out of the door handle/armrest you just gently pull on one location at a time of the door card until the plastic clips pop out, but go all around the panel gently removing one at a time if they break the panel won't go back securely.
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Then get some WD 40 and spray all around the scissor mechanism and try wipe off as much old gunge as you can, then lubricate the moving parts with a spray on light grease, inside all the rubber mouldings where the glass slides into spray with a silicone spray, that offers less resistance to the glass and allows it to slide freely. If after this it is still very slow then I'm afraid the motor's on it's way out.

 

my window started to get slower and slow until it stoped working. but the engine still sounds.

i went to the dealer and they said to change the window regulator?

 

my driver side door/window has always been fishy. I as well as have 99 base

 

anyone know how much it costs?
to fix it?

 

I'll reiterate that you should check that all the rubber moldings around the window (viewable from the outside as the window goes up) are not twisted and going behind it as it rolls up. My drivers side window of my 2001 had the same problem, and i finally noticed that the rubber strip running along the pillar that should go in FRONT of the window, was actually ripped a little, and was being forced behind the window, causing it to come to a complete stop about half way up because of the pressure it was applying.

At first I was about to change out the motor too, thinking there was a problem with that, but it seemed strange that the window would go up strong for the first half, and then come to a complete stop. If thats the case... it probably isn't the motor. I had this looked at by a mechanic before I figured out what the real problem was, and he told me to replace the motor (shows how much effort some [not all] mechanics put into really trying to help you out)

If you check and this isn't the case, you might want to try cleaning out the window tracks with a q-tip and rubbing alcohol, then spraying some wd-40 or other type of lubricant along the inside of the window track.. thats also helped me as well as some other people on this forum.

Just giving you some cheap things to check out before you replace something that might not be necessary.

 

If cleaning the window tracks doesn't help, take apart the window switch and clean the contacts inside.

The switches on the Prelude are a different design than on my old 94 Accord, but they probably work on the same principle. Every time you activate that switch, a small electric arc jumps between the contacts inside the switch, and over time you get a burnt deposit on them. That would also explain the window slowing down, because the deposit increases the resistence in the circuit, starving the motor. Scraping that off might fix the problem.

On my 94 Accord the driver side window slowed down, and eventually refused to go up. After cleaning the actual switch the window was still slow, but at least it was moving.

 

I have the same problem, but I can't seem to find the replacement part for it. I've been looking all around for rubber window strips.