Basically, you need the following parts. Without these, it will be difficult to complete:
Before doing anything confirm:
- That your loom has the spot for the relay, not all lancers/rages come with the loom in the dash for the power windows etc.
A good guide is if your car is a 2001 or older, generally speaking, you should have it there already.
If your missing the spot for the relay to plug in, you do not have the power windows dash loom at all and will need a whole MR or VRX dash loom to do the power windows install
This requires a lot more work like taking whole dash out, and may make the job more effort then its worth.
- Get door cards (only exception to the above)
- Get power window motor
- Get door looms
- Get window switches
My parts were off a VR-X Mirage. I believe a lancer should be the same.
Down to business:
1) The factory door loom has just two wires, + & - for the speaker in the door. Cars with Power Mirrors and Windows, will have i think 5 or 6 or so extra wires for the mirrors, and i think it was 7 for power windows. If a lancer has power windows, chances are it has power mirrors and central locking too.
The 4 wires uncut still are for the switch, and the blue/black and white/blue are for the speakers
The looms i got had window wiring, central locking, and power mirrors. Because i didnt want or need the mirrors, and already have the locking kit and speakers, i simply cut these wires off at the connections at the wreckers. Feel free to get the whole lot (its actually easier if you grab the whole lot, i didnt and had to resolder the OEM plugs/speaker connections back on)
Heres all the crap i cut off:
I paid $25ea door cards+ $50ea for the switches + $50 for the motor, so $250 all up in total. This is for genuine Parts too, so its designed to be plug and play.
2) When removing the parts from a wreck;
- take off the door card
- remove every bolt that you can see: a) two on the top & bottom of the motor wires, and three on the motor bit itself. b) unbolt the window, which is two screws (put window all the way up or down, and you'll see it).
This is my winder system, but its the same: Two bolts at the top, two at the bottom, and the three to the left, and the two window screws at the bottom on the white holder.
- You may need to remove your window to stop it falling to the bottom of the inside of the door (to remove the window, the black felt strip on the window edge just pops up and off).
- remove the door loom. This unplugs from everything in the door (just cut if it you'd like). This loom goes literally just inside the car body before coming to a plug. Unplug this, and you have your door loom!
This is on the drivers side, with the fusebox unbolted and lowered
3) Your car:
This is pretty much identical with the only exception being that your car will not have extra wires for the windows.
- remove your door card
-remove the metal bracket in the middle here:
- undo all the bolts for the manual winder system.
Stupid mechanical crap
- at this stage, i undid the power loom, and removed all wires except the power window related ones, and the audio wires.
It is really really hard to pass a 20pin plug through the rubber crap in the doors, so i cut and resoldered the plug once i pulled it through the rubber grommet.
-cut the power loom about 5cm from the doorside plug, and then tape these wires to the original door loom. Then you unplug your original door loom and pull it through from the car (i had to remove my ECU/glovebox / fusebox to reach this (slightly) easier). Resolder the new power loom up to its plug, and plug it back up to the interior loom.
- Remove the old window from the winder system (two bolts, either wind window 100% or 100% down, and you'll see the bolts. Then undo the 4 bolts holding half the winder (two at the top and 2 bottom), and the 3 bolts on the wider handle part.
You need to make sure you keep two wires for the speakers (unless your deaf/dont like music), here they are on the non power plug:
4) Plug all the connections back into where they go, one for each switch, each door loom if you havent already, and each window motor.
The one on the left is for the motor, and the right/white plug is the switch
- You may need a relay in the center holder in the fusebox above the driver footwell. (I havent tested if its 100% needed or not at all).
Thats it pretty much, Feel free to PM me with questions, and its all still fresh to me lol
Oh, and enjoy not having to lean all the way over and wind the window like a crazy fool anymore!
Before doing anything confirm:
- That your loom has the spot for the relay, not all lancers/rages come with the loom in the dash for the power windows etc.
A good guide is if your car is a 2001 or older, generally speaking, you should have it there already.
If your missing the spot for the relay to plug in, you do not have the power windows dash loom at all and will need a whole MR or VRX dash loom to do the power windows install
This requires a lot more work like taking whole dash out, and may make the job more effort then its worth.
- Get door cards (only exception to the above)
- Get power window motor
- Get door looms
- Get window switches
My parts were off a VR-X Mirage. I believe a lancer should be the same.
Down to business:
1) The factory door loom has just two wires, + & - for the speaker in the door. Cars with Power Mirrors and Windows, will have i think 5 or 6 or so extra wires for the mirrors, and i think it was 7 for power windows. If a lancer has power windows, chances are it has power mirrors and central locking too.
The 4 wires uncut still are for the switch, and the blue/black and white/blue are for the speakers
The looms i got had window wiring, central locking, and power mirrors. Because i didnt want or need the mirrors, and already have the locking kit and speakers, i simply cut these wires off at the connections at the wreckers. Feel free to get the whole lot (its actually easier if you grab the whole lot, i didnt and had to resolder the OEM plugs/speaker connections back on)
Heres all the crap i cut off:
I paid $25ea door cards+ $50ea for the switches + $50 for the motor, so $250 all up in total. This is for genuine Parts too, so its designed to be plug and play.
2) When removing the parts from a wreck;
- take off the door card
- remove every bolt that you can see: a) two on the top & bottom of the motor wires, and three on the motor bit itself. b) unbolt the window, which is two screws (put window all the way up or down, and you'll see it).
This is my winder system, but its the same: Two bolts at the top, two at the bottom, and the three to the left, and the two window screws at the bottom on the white holder.
- You may need to remove your window to stop it falling to the bottom of the inside of the door (to remove the window, the black felt strip on the window edge just pops up and off).
- remove the door loom. This unplugs from everything in the door (just cut if it you'd like). This loom goes literally just inside the car body before coming to a plug. Unplug this, and you have your door loom!
This is on the drivers side, with the fusebox unbolted and lowered
3) Your car:
This is pretty much identical with the only exception being that your car will not have extra wires for the windows.
- remove your door card
-remove the metal bracket in the middle here:
- undo all the bolts for the manual winder system.
Stupid mechanical crap
- at this stage, i undid the power loom, and removed all wires except the power window related ones, and the audio wires.
It is really really hard to pass a 20pin plug through the rubber crap in the doors, so i cut and resoldered the plug once i pulled it through the rubber grommet.
-cut the power loom about 5cm from the doorside plug, and then tape these wires to the original door loom. Then you unplug your original door loom and pull it through from the car (i had to remove my ECU/glovebox / fusebox to reach this (slightly) easier). Resolder the new power loom up to its plug, and plug it back up to the interior loom.
- Remove the old window from the winder system (two bolts, either wind window 100% or 100% down, and you'll see the bolts. Then undo the 4 bolts holding half the winder (two at the top and 2 bottom), and the 3 bolts on the wider handle part.
You need to make sure you keep two wires for the speakers (unless your deaf/dont like music), here they are on the non power plug:
4) Plug all the connections back into where they go, one for each switch, each door loom if you havent already, and each window motor.
The one on the left is for the motor, and the right/white plug is the switch
- You may need a relay in the center holder in the fusebox above the driver footwell. (I havent tested if its 100% needed or not at all).
Thats it pretty much, Feel free to PM me with questions, and its all still fresh to me lol
Oh, and enjoy not having to lean all the way over and wind the window like a crazy fool anymore!