Jay_Me

My driver side window on my 2002 civic went donw and will not go back up, I can hear the motor working when I hit the switch. any suggestions for what it might be? I took the door panel off of the door and can see the cable that runs to the motor and feel it move when the switch is pressed, is there a special routing for the cable that maybe it jumped a pulley? very annoying.

ezone

If the motor runs but the window does not move (and you hear crunching noises), you need a new regulator.

Red_Chaos1

This. My old Lincoln Town Car did this with both rear windows. My guess is that age or extra resistance cause the drive splines/teeth to chew up the pulley splines/teeth. The front passenger was worn too and would only halfway roll up, and the front edge of the window would catch on the guide or something. Would have to help the window the rest of the way up to get it fully closed. Replaced the regulator/motor with one out of another Town Car in a pick/pull yard and it lasted about a month before the pulley gave out in the same fashion. Had I and my friend that helped me had our druthers we probably would've done something to ease the windows movement along the guide.