Ol' Don fearlessly doing what needs to be done, once more.... great job... FYI; Golf clubs work good for guiding snakes away... Press on my video friend

Well done Don. I'm glad that no snakes were harmed in the filming of this episode. Now we need a video of you testing the window at a drive-thru. Perhaps your ice-cream shop has one?

don, thanks for giving the arm rest a cursory cleaning, now the window, and you're ready to roll. those snakes are great for helping with the mice control. yeah for the snakes👍

I can't believe how much I enjoy watching you do this stuff. So funny. 😁

Good job on saving the patient.. 👍 Still laughing about the snake though.. Crikey! “Off you go! Into the bush.. 🤣

Good idea to put silicon lubricant in the grooves where the window slides☮️🌵

Another good job well done Don.Great work getting rid of the indecisive snake. ATB

Very cool job, Don! Quietly reassuring the rest of us mechanically challenged people of the old maxim, where there's a will, there's a way! Enjoyed this little change of pace, thanks!

Hi Don, dont worry about that ring for the speaker, all it does is take up the space between the speaker frame and the door panel/speaker grill to keep it from vibrating when your headbanging to the heavy metal music your always listening to... 🤣😂🤣 Another great job well done!!!!

Great job Don. Older cars are just much nicer to work on. Thank you for the video and see you soon, hopefully.

I'm continually amazed watching your videos! Well done!

I admire how you take a great care of your vehicle and share videos here any time you are working on it. You are a go getter , determined hard worker man . I will email you a tip (if I may) on how to silence your phone when you receive unwanted calls . Best. .

Wonderful glad you were able to repair your door window

I did this repair on my Jeep Cherokee years ago, it was certainly a pain in the but! Lots of sharp edges. The Corolla is a really good car, I’ve got a 2012, almost 200k miles, never had any problems with it. She’s a keeper.

Excellent video, Don. Great job, Second to none

Very nice bull snake. They keep the rodents under control. He probably wanted to wait under your hood for a mouse to come by. You did a great job fixing that window. 😊👍💜

Congrats Don for taking this on. I have an 04 Nissan that needs one. I was afraid to try but now I will. Thanks for the video!!!

You sir are a natural. Excellent job.

Wow‼️ That’s a super long snake❗️ beautiful colors.

Great video Don. That's a job that has its ups and downs! But you made it happen.

Sir! You are a real doorminator. Great job! Greatings from Norway

Nice work! Enjoyable seeing you work through the replacement. It brought back memories of a similar repair I made on my daughters car a few years ago.

Good job sir, knew you could do it all along.

@10:08 I’ve never been happier for you 🤗👏🏼

I'll have a big mack and fries,cold pepsi thank you , well done, Don , good form.

Thanks Don. I really enjoyed this project. I may have to do mine someday, and now I know how!

Good job Don

Uh oh...😁."git er done Don!!" Amazing Man, Don!

Looks like that Bull snake is doing it's job, Don. Not a bull in sight :) Also Confucius say, " Man with tool in hand not necessarily (a) mechanic."

Is there anything you can't do?!?! Impressive!

Like always your videos are tremendously enjoyable. Your attitude is awesome!

Good job Don. I have a 94 Corolla and my plastic interior parts are also very brittle.

Good job

Great Job! FYI: The clip on your door pull should rotate over the pull rod to lock it in place. If you don't lock it, you will find yourself rolling the window down and using the outside handle to open the door some day to get out of your car! Fortunately, you can roll your window down now! LOL

Always fun fixing your own stuff

Good Job!

Great job 👏 , Mike, ASE Master Automotive Technician 40+ Years

Great job, it seems you can do almost anything.

great work Don !!! only thing you forgot it that yellow retaining clip for door handle ! but overall amazing work!! I bet you ever though your retirement would be this fun

Great job! If that brittle plastic starts to break again or super glue fails, glue it back again with the super glue and use some fiber mesh or screen layers for strength and some epoxy and brush it on the whole area at a few inches depth on the backside of the repair. (kindof like making a surf board or repairing fiberglass gelcoat.) It will last years and years

Good work Dan keep it up

Great patience.

Great job. Not bad for a younger guy.

Hi Don, you did a wonderful job on your car and took great care with that beautiful snake. Tim(my 🐕) and I are camping on the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia at the moment, in splendid isolation. I have seen a couple of snakes, which are definitely deadly, so Tim is always on his lead. Looking forward to your next video. Graham and Tim 😊 🐕

Great video Don! It looks like you could start a side hustle repairing cars.... :) :). God bless! The snake was a bonus at the end!

Great job Don.

Not going to lie, I'm impressed! Well done!

Hi Don, great job repairing the window. I have to do that with my 2001 Chevy Silverado. I’m lucky, I guess, it’s the old fashioned “cranky cranky” type, so no wiring harness to mess with. I’ll have to get one of those trim removing tools. Also, on some of the channels I watch they leave their hoods up to deter critters from crawling into the engine compartment. I guess they don’t like the sunlight.

Thank you for your video. My Corolla 98 inside panel door also got all broken but, too late to repair it. I am dealing with several things lately that I have not done in my car and your video is pushing me to have same power window done asap. Great video.

You did a real good job I did auto glass for 25 years I’d hire you

Wow! I'm impressed! I had to pull my door panel off once to repair the latch... NOT fun and don't ever want to do it again!

🐍🚘 Great repair job!

This was a fun video - thanks!

Great job. I hate working on my cars. I just had to put in a new starter in my truck. Not fun. LOL.

That is the oddest piece ever. You have a lot of patience to do this.

Great job keep up the videos

Impressive saved some money on that cool.

I enjoy your video's. I am a big birder also. My wife and I birded for a week down there a few back. I really enjoyed it. I also am a big snake person and am always looking for them. I lay down items that snakes will lay under just so I can check for them, take pictcures then send them on there way.

😱🐍 Great job on the window !!

Well it's about time.. 😂 Definitely an adult Sonoran Gopher Snake, a close relative of the Bull Snakes further east. Had your car been running recently? Do packrats ever get up into your engine compartment? Sometimes gophers & kings will climb up off the ground during a wet monsoon to dry out a bit. Keep 'em coming kind sir.. 😉 PS- Mr Goodwrench ain't got nothin' on you! 🤣

Thanks!

Hey, great stuff again. Always enjoy 👍👍 Lake Havasu 🌞 Az

I'm impressed

Mmmmm!!! Slithering Chicken !!

Amazing. I swear, you rock!

Great job!

Totally awesome!!!., great job!

Well done, Don!

Yeah that would be under the bonnet mate! 😄

DIY GREAT JOB

Good job.

Good job. Enjoyed watching and learning. Thanks', Don.

Great job on window replacement !!!!

Thanks

A few extra parts means nothing if it works! lol

One other comment, use some spray silicone to lube up the channels that the window slides in and it will make the window work better and motor last a lot longer.

You. Are totally amazing 😲

Impressive repair job Don. I was wondering when You took out all the parts if you had to go in town to an autobody shop for completion, but you succeeded with flying colors.

Living with flora and fauna

you can get a cheap plastic welding tool from harbor freight , have fixed a lot of broken plastic just melting and welding it back together , great for patching holes in big plastic barrels that someone drilled through , it`s a great cheap investment .

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As good as new, the plastic behind the door panel is a vapor barrier.

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You're not a real mechanic, you didn't use a hammer. 😀

Well Dun! I am not so kind to snakes or spiders.

Good to be so self relient when off grind. That big ole bull snake will help keep the rodent's in check for you.

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❤️👍👍👍

you amazing Don i never attempted to do anything like that very good hahhah that Australian accent again you need to work on that

Just had to do this on my Honda Element…..I was traveling on the road, and costs me $284 buckaroos. Ouch.

I am not trying to throw cold water on your window motor replacement and I hope it lasts, BUT Dorman parts are known by just about every mechanic as junk. So for any future repairs you might want to seek out another brand.

Much simpler than mine was ours had a bullet proof Plate in it lol police crown vic.

did you video the floods?

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Ah, the older "scissor jack type". They've been around for decades. I replaced one on my dad's 1968 Chrysler New Yorker in the 70's, and it had that type. A different type of larger motor with brushes in it, so that turned out to be the problem on his, so replaced the graphite brushes in the motor, and it worked again. This year, had to replace passenger motor in my 2003 Dodge Grand Caravan, and instead it had some new god awful contraption in it, NOT scissor jack type. Ordered a Dorman replacement, with crappy instructions, and it was "improved" model, HAH! (/sarcasm) View one on an autoparts site, or KZfaq video! That made it look different enough to the old original, it took awhile to figure which bar on it went to which side and which direction it was supposed to face. An odd contraption with the two bars, a motor with wires on each side of it, and this single steel braided wire, went between the holding bars on each side, making an X pattern between them. My "wire" had been chewed up in the motor. I had been expecting to find similar setup you did, and what I'd seen in '68. The new motor didn't even have torx bolts to hold motor on, but some plastic pop rivets. Hopes that plastic holds. The plastic sheeting on my door wouldn't come off in one piece, it tore up, (probably should have used a hot air blower to loosen the tarlike glue) so I decided to just not install more plastic when putting the inner door panel back on such old vehicle. I also had to replace the door's switch, not expensive. I oiled the channels for the window edges to slide easier in. Not a job I enjoyed since temps were in the 90-95F range with humidity in Florida then.

Nuclear job don

I would have turned him into charcoal that way it will not return to back.

Ey, Mate! That was fun. "Cryptic" hole was pretty comic. SO impressed, you did it, congratulations! Question: is there a way to know if there is a snake under your hood before you turn the key? Also will rodents/packrats find that apparently very attractive place too?

Herding snakes huh? Now I’ve seen it all

Don I hope you locked in the inside door handle latch to rod? You are nearly a certified Toyota technician! And now he’s a snake whisperer.