I have a 2006 Dodge Grand Caravan and the passenger window has become intermittent. I'm pretty well convinced that the issue is in the the motor and that the rest of the assembly (regulator) is fine. I have the door apart now and am debating on replacing the motor only or the motor and regulator assembly. Is it that much easier to replace just the motor? The regulator looks like a bit more of a pain to get out of the door. I understand there is a risk that the regulator is bad and could have caused the motor to have issues, so is it best to just do both? I'm cheap and not worried about taking the door apart again.

 

If the cabling, plastic rail guides etc are in good shape you might try just the motor. I've changed 4 of these on various model years but have always had frayed cables or snapped guides so I replace the whole shabang. I've read changing just the motor is a good option. That said, the whole assembly costs little more than a motor. Some have even just disassembled the motor and cleaned it with good success. Others have changed the motor brushes.

Have you tried the "hold the switch and slam the door trick"? If that gets it going it's a motor problem.

 

Yeah, the cost of the motor vs motor and regulator assembly was pretty minimal, so I bought both just in case I ended up needing it. I took the motor off the new assembly and quickly noticed that the gear on the new assembly was different that the original one. So I went ahead and replaced both the motor and regulator assembly. Door is put back together and working well - thanks for the input!

Before I ordered the new motor, I did get the old motor working by opening it and cleaning it up a bit. It was still closing very slowly, so I suspect it was pretty wore out.

 

Did yours get stuck at the very bottom?

 

I replaced the regulator and motor. At Advanced Auto the motor was about $75 and the regulator and motor as a unit was about $95. It is not difficult at all to change out the motor and regulator. There may be a thread or two on here. And, there are several videos if you goggle it.

 

At first I thought mine was an issue with the switch. It would fail to respond to the switch when I went to open it. If it opened, it would open\close for a period of time. But then it would go back to not responding. I tested it and the switch was working. I opened the case of the motor and cleaned it a little bit and it started working again, but was slow. So I replaced both (pretty easy) lot of good videos on youtube. If it's stuck down, you could try the trick someone suggested above. Hold the switch while closing the door to see if it jars it loose.

 

If the window gets stuck down, can't you just cut the cables to manually raise it up?