I just bought a 2012 Tradesman with crank windows and manual locks. My last truck had manual windows and I didn’t mind, but the hand space for this model makes it kind of tight and uncomfortable to get my hand in there to crank.

If I find a 4th gen at the junk yard, would I be able to take the door panels and the window motors and lock motors and just bolt them onto my door? Or is the inside of the door actually different to where it wouldn’t bolt up? I’m assuming that I’d also need a wire harness off of the junk truck too.

I’d rather have the real thing instead of the aftermarket ones that I’ve seen. I just don’t know if I’d be getting myself into a huge messy job, or a fairly straight forward swap.

 

In all reality, I think installing the aftermarket system would be easier.... The newer trucks, the switches merely suggest to some computer that you want the window, or locks, to move, and the computer does the rest...... Not like the good ol' days, when the switches were wired directly to what they were meant to control.