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When we first set up the glider it worked perfectly, for about 15 minutes! Then my 2 1/2 year old son started messing with it and it stopped gliding. We could hear the motor turning and see that it was moving slightly front/back. Sometimes if we pushed it, it caught and would glide, others it would just stop again. Baby's R Us is a 30 minute drive for us, so we decided to do some at home experimentation! What did we have to lose? We thought it was broken anyways! My husband and I took it apart, tried a few things, then somehow he decided to push apart the 2 main stands (1 contains motor and buttons, 1 on opposite side), suddenly it started gliding. It was like they were buckling inward, causing too much friction between the swing arms and the stands, not allowing it to glide. So when we pushed the stands slightly outward it glided. So I thought, how do you allow the stand to lean outward...then I thought about how TIGHT I TIGHTENED THE SCREWS ON THE BOTTOM OF THE STANDS!! VERY TIGHT!! I OBVIOUSLY DIDN'T WANT IT FALLING APART AND MY BABY FALLING OUT!! So I turned the glider over, loosened the screws a tiny bit and like MAGIC...it allowed the stand arms to relax just enough so that there was no longer the friction between the stand and the glider portion. It glided. It works perfectly, glides super fast and smoothly on any setting. I am using 3 and it is more than fast enough for my 3 week old who weighs nearly 8 lbs. And my baby LOVES this glider. She would sleep in it all day/night if I let her. I can finally put her down and shes safe/secure. There's no way this thing will tip over, not even with my 2 1/2 year old son messing with it. I've read comments about the toy bar. First of all, the toy bars on all of these swings are stupid, poor functionality! My last Graco swing had little white bears that hung from a mobile that didn't even spin and there was no way my son could even reach them. Stupid. I actually like that I can tilt this toy bar back behind the head of the cradle or bring it forward for the baby to look at, which she can care less about at this point. Love this glider! Hate the design flaw, but at least we figured out what the problem was. Graco should take some time to figure out why so many of these swings are being returned with people saying the motor is broken and it wont glide. It took us an hour max to figure it out. I hope this advice helps some of you who have this swing and are having this issue!