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Well, buddy borrowed my truck today for an hour. First time I’ve lent the old girl out, came back with partial inop driver door window. Awesome. He says he rolled it down all the way, back up, and then it stopped going down. I’ve run the window up and down dozens of times prior to lending the truck out without issue. Just the way it goes I guess. I’m thinking something has jumped off its track maybe or regulator is jammed up? Anyone experience window doing this before.

It will go down but only lower about 4” from top of door and come to a stop. Will go back up ok. Try and come come down to stop again only lowering 4”. Weird guess I’ll have to take it apart Now. Just the way it goes, lend something out it’s always coming back broken, not blaming my friend at all - just Murphy’s law. Unless there’s some sort of weird child lock I’m missing haha. Driver door window 97 Yukon

Update- Well did some google researching and a bit of testing. Apparently the power lock module likes to fall off and jam up the window. Power lock also doesn’t work anymore. Assuming that’s what it is at this point.
 
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Well, buddy borrowed my truck today for an hour. First time I’ve lent the old girl out, came back with partial inop driver door window. Awesome. He says he rolled it down all the way, back up, and then it stopped going down. I’ve run the window up and down dozens of times prior to lending the truck out without issue. Just the way it goes I guess. I’m thinking something has jumped off its track maybe or regulator is jammed up? Anyone experience window doing this before.

It will go down but only lower about 4” from top of door and come to a stop. Will go back up ok. Try and come come down to stop again only lowering 4”. Weird guess I’ll have to take it apart Now. Just the way it goes, lend something out it’s always coming back broken, not blaming my friend at all - just Murphy’s law. Unless there’s some sort of weird child lock I’m missing haha. Driver door window 97 Yukon

Update- Well did some google researching and a bit of testing. Apparently the power lock module likes to fall off and jam up the window. Power lock also doesn’t work anymore. Assuming that’s what it is at this point.
Yes the P/L actuator is riveted to the door inner module/panel, and the rivets come loose after a few decades. Then two things happen: your power locks may quit working, and the actuator gets caught in the window travel arc, stopping the glass from moving fully downward. I have this problem with both my trucks; left second door on Burb and right second door on Rawhide. The glass only goes about 40% down, and there's a clunk sound when it hits the stopping point. Also, if the glass is not raised a little bit, it's impossible to lock or unlock the door manually.
I need to fix it, but working on doors requires a certain level of patience that's hard to get when it's in the high 90s and about 300% humidity.....
 

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Yes the P/L actuator is riveted to the door inner module/panel, and the rivets come loose after a few decades. Then two things happen: your power locks may quit working, and the actuator gets caught in the window travel arc, stopping the glass from moving fully downward. I have this problem with both my trucks; left second door on Burb and right second door on Rawhide. The glass only goes about 40% down, and there's a clunk sound when it hits the stopping point. Also, if the glass is not raised a little bit, it's impossible to lock or unlock the door manually.
I need to fix it, but working on doors requires a certain level of patience that's hard to get when it's in the high 90s and about 300% humidity.....

You were 100% correct - tore the door down today and yep both rivets broken.
Installed 2 new rivets, all good now. Took about 30mins, including a smoke break cause it’s so darn hot outside today lol. At least hot for this northern Canadian, 27C and 40% humidity
 

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Well, buddy borrowed my truck today for an hour. First time I’ve lent the old girl out, came back with partial inop driver door window.

Glad you were able to get it found/fixed. I hate borrowing stuff myself because it
seems that I'm the one at the controls when the rivets finally give out after years & years
of service.

Q: While your buddy had the truck he didn't happen to park it in a garage staffed with
shifty valet types? It wouldn't be the first time that something like this has happened...
 

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You may have found one of my old posts while googling ;) I had this exact issue on a freshly-purchased '94 Suburban, grandpa mobile, back in 2004!

Anyway whether it was my post or not I'm glad you got it going. These things happen. I bring the possibility up whenever this gets mentioned because I would have never expected it, but apparently it's a "thing" ..

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