With the rising cost of auto repairs, sometimes it is best to ‘do it yourself’ to avoid the high costs of paying a shop (never mind pricey dealerships).

Driving a Ford Explorer we found that a common occurrance with the SUV is for the power windows to stop working. This can be a danger to drive around with a window that doesn’t work. Especially in South Florida where many a car has ended up in a canal. If you need to get out of a submerged vehicle and the window doesn’t function, you are toast.

That is why we figured that our best option was to make this repair ourselves. In our search of the internet, we did not find many helpful websites to prep for the job. Checking our favorite seach engine, MSN, we found a handy website to walk us through the process, CarCondition.com had a nice article on power window motor replacement, http://www.carcondition.com/power_window_motor.html.

It was quite interesting to find that the article is based on another Ford Explorer with two power windows that failed. Ford should do something about these poor quality power windows. Maybe we should do an article about common vehicle problems by line.

Simply put, we followed the detailed instructions provided by CarCondition.com and our Ford is back with a functioning power window just like new.