Are you a slave to your power windows?

[V®6]

There is a little piece of brittle plastic about half a centimetre thick that supports the weight of the glass in the window all by itself. This has broken in 2 of my windows and I had the local engineering joint make me up a nice strong metal replacement part and now they are good as gold. I flippanty put my windows up and down like a yo yo; with full confidence.

You wouldn't happen to have any photos of it at all??

[hokenmk3]

No I don't; sorry. It is very obvious when it breaks. I remove the part and tape the window shut while the engineers make me a new one. This does involve taking the door interior off but it is very easy. Just like playing with lego.

[V®6]

No I don't; sorry. It is very obvious when it breaks. I remove the part and tape the window shut while the engineers make me a new one. This does involve taking the door interior off but it is very easy. Just like playing with lego.

I've got one that's broken at the moment. Rear passenger window dropped, the culprit as we all know is the plastic holding the cradle to the regulator system. What do the engineers make a replacement for? the plastic that breaks or the entire cradle?

[hokenmk3]

Just the cradle bit. Take the whole part to the engineers place though cause they will attach the metal bit effectively. Take the bit that broke off too and just explain to them what you want. They would do much more complicated jobs than that all the time. Engineers know heaps about how strong stuff is and how strong stuff needs to be so you might not even end up with exactly the same thing that I got but the aim of the game is to get the bit that breaks made out of metal so it doesn't break.

[Dubdubdubdot]

My driver side window does occasionally stop working. This sucks. All other windows work 100%. When winding down the windows all at once (using the key ) the drivers side window is 1 second slower - when it works.

Regulator or something else?

[V®6]

the aim of the game is to get the bit that breaks made out of metal so it doesn't break.

That's been my aim ever since the first window broke

[trauts]

I have had many problems, my drivers window you could not put strait up.
you would have to put it up in 5cm incraments trying to put it up in one motor burst would result it a revolt where it would wind itself down...

then the passangers window just dropped out.

So i try to use the aircon as much as possible and not wind the window down, because i have alredy had to leave my car parked with the window down as it went down and broke.

[black_bull]

Im a slave to my power windows now .. the passenger side works fine .. but the drivers front and rear are dead ..

I had my mechanic have a look but they said its the motor .. I doubt that is true because everything i've read around the forums says its always the regulator ..

Plus the guy at the wreckers i just called swears black and blue that its not going to be the motor ..

Where do i start ? Im not afraid to fix it myself, but i don't want to pull the door apart untill im pretty sure i know exactly what im doing ..