Motor Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Asked by agc on April 10, 2021
Olds Alero ’03 has a broken left front window regulator. The window motor’s OK.
This would make it the third time this part failed; different shops did both repairs, and I’m wondering if poor quality replacement parts may not have played a role, i.e. an OEM using a plastic that oxidizes and becomes brittle.
Online vendors offer several brands of regulators, (Delco, Dorman, Cardone, ReplaceXL, etc.), at varying prices. I don’t know which, if any, is better, or which if any has better odds on being better.
Non subjective questions:
Even if such a ranking does exist it would be of little practical use
Consider the following:
variations during manufacturing
Due to things like different suppliers for the same part, different operators, different norms adopted in different factories/assembly locations...
variations during operation
Due to variations in temperature and humidity, the frequency of usage, the torque supplied by the motor, the loading conditions it is subjected to...
variations in testing procedure
Just because a part is tested and certified under certain conditions, it is not a guarantee for how it will perform in the real world. The discrepancy between quoted MPG ratings and real-world MPG figures are a classic example of this.
The crux of this answer can be summed up as follows: your mileage may vary.
Answered by Zaid on April 10, 2021
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