The first step is to remove the exterior window weather strip along the bottom of the window.
This just clips in and you can get it out with a screwdriver, but the thin bit at the ends are glued on, so you carefully need to cut under this bit before levering it up.
Removing the door trim is very easy, undo the two screws, one on the door handle, and the other at the bottom of the hand grip on the armrest, just seen on the left of the photo. It helps to remove the triangular plastic cover near the mirror, this just pulls straight off, but I have taken the door trim off without doing this.
Slide the door handle forward a bit and it will just pull forward. Now get a putty knife with a nice broad blade and slide it under the door trim somewhere along the bottom, slide the putty knife up against a clip and gently lever the door trim off one clip at a time until the trim is just hanging at the top. Leave the door handle attached to the actuating rod, gently turn the handle sideways and you will be able to slide the handle out of the door trim to the rear. You need to unhook the wiring harness from the window switch, this is easiest to do by unplugging the wires from the switch itself. Carefully, remove the switch panel from the door trim, and plug the window switch back in as you will need to open and close the window a few times before we are finished.
Now carefully remove the plastic dust sheet without tearing. Tuck it up out of the road, you can take it right off if you want, but you don't need to. If you do wreck it, it's pretty easy to cut out a new one from a sheet of plastic using the old one as a template. This photos shows the two screws that hold the top of the regulator in, we will remove these shortly after we get the glass out.
If you suspect that the switch is faulty, not the motor, put a multimeter on the red and yellow wires leading from the switch to the motor (see the second photo below) after unplugging them at one of the harness plugs. Actuate the switch a few times. You should see the volage alternate from +12 to -12 volts depending on whether you are trying to wind the window up or down. In my case neither the drivers side switch or the passenger switch was making the window go and I could hear a clicking noise coming from the motor when I activated the window switch, so it was definitely a faulty motor.
To get the glass out, wind the window down and then up enough so you can see the bottom of the regulator like this and remove the two screws that hold the glass in:
Don't ask me how to do this if your window is siezed in the up position, just pray that it starts to work again like mine did when I opened it all up.
The screw at the bottom of the photo is what holds the bottom of the regulator in. We will remove it after the glass comes out. The next step is to remove the window, tilting it forward to get it out. This was pretty easy. Put the glass down somewhere safe.
Once the window is removed, the regulator and the motor have to come out together as they are all one assembly. The motor is the black thing in the middle of the next photo. First, grab a pair of pliers and undo the two black clips holding the black motor cable in position, and undo the connector that joins the motor wires to the red and yellow wires in the harness as shown in the photo below.
Now, undo the three screws that hold the regulator slide in and the three screws that hold the motor in shown in the photo and also undo the three screws identified earlier that holds the regulator in. Unhook the regulator from the top up near the two top screws and it will just slide out the hole in the door panel. If you are going to re-use the regulator, clean it up, lubricate the regulator slide and reinstall it.
to re install it, it is basically the reverse process. There is some adjustment at the top of the regulator and also on the screws holding the glass on. I played around with these until the window went up and down smoothly with no sign of the motor labouring.
I used window sealant to glue the dust sheet back on, but if you were careful getting it off, the sheet might just stick back to the tacky goo that is there.
I had a bit of body trim tape which I used to glue the tail of the window exterior weather seal on. The photo shows the tape attached to the weather strip before installation.
