Re: WTB: passenger power window switch - '85 Scirocco

[Sean <qatboy@richmond.infi.net>]

At 12:31 AM 9/13/96 -0700, you wrote:
>Help me end what seems like a nightmare.  I'll make my request and then
>share the nightmare.  If you don't care about the 'mare just read paragraph 1.
>
>I need a power window switch for an '85 'rocco (I imagine the part from any
>Scirocco II will do).  Can't find one locally - none of the wreckers have
>them and I refuse to even call a dealer to ask how much.  Anyway, that's
>what I need so if you've got one, know where to get one, happen to be at a
>wrecker or near a parts car with one - make me a happy VW'r. 
>
>Now I know you all love little VW stories so here's what has made this a
>nightmare.  The passenger power window hasn't operated in, I don't know, 2
>years.  I am always sitting behind the wheel - so I just don't care!  My
>girlfriend (she has less seniority with me than the car) started to make
>polite comments about how nice it would be to have a window that went up and
>down.  I figured it wouldn't be a big deal - the summer would come and go
>and all would be fine as it started to rain incessently here for the next 8
>months.  Wrong.  Somehow that window became a measure of my committment to
>the relationship.  Keep in mind - there are worse things than a girlfriend
>who WANTS you to spend time working on your car!
>
>Anyway, I tear the door apart for the first time - learn about vapour seals
>(and what happens when you don't put them back on very carefully) and try
>and get some idea of how the hell my power window works - Bentley is a bad
>boy in his little book and only shows the Cabby power window setup.  With
>some help from a kind soul (on this list or the H20 newsgroup) I figure out
>how the window works and determine that it is in fact a blown motor as
>correct current flow through the switch all the way to the motor.  How much
>can one little electric motor cost I ask myself?  Call the dealer where I
>learn "German engineers only see fit to make the motor and regulator one
>piece which was only used in your car from the years '84 - '88.  Oh yeah
>driver and passenger sides are different orientations.  Only $700.00 prepaid
>and it'll take three weeks to get here."  This guy had been inhaling too
>many exhaust fumes cuz he actually thought I was going to give him my credit
>card number.  Okay - wreckers - it took me 5 weeks to find one (and the
>wrecker called me to say he had it).  Tear the door apart again (girlfriend
>doesn't like riding in car without door panel on!) rip out the old regulator
>and squeeze the new one in - figure out the brackets and making it all fit
>in the guides.  YIPPEE - the window works (and let me tell you, it pays to
>give the girlfriend what she wants!).  Two days later, driving in the city
>(with the girlfriend!) and she starts to put the window down - it's about
>half way down, I hit a bump, hear an awful scraping and the sound of
>shattering glass.  Ooops, i guess I didn't tighten those screws quite
>enough!  (Girlfriend - NOT HAPPY - no window and scared to $*&#&^  -  it
>doesn't pay to do a shoddy job when the girlfriend files the workorder!)
>Guess what - tear the door apart, vacuum out the glass, buy new glass,
>install new glass - window won't work consistently courtesy of a flakey
>switch.  Cleaned the contacts - no good.
>
>So here I am almost one full season of the year later with a couple of
>hundred dollars in a window of all things and it still doesn't work.
>Although I'm not looking forward to tearing that damn door apart again I
>really, really, really need to make the thing work before I hear "Just sell
>the damn car and buy a Honda, their windows work."  So please - a switch?
>
>Chris.
>
>p.s. Thanks for listening - I feel better now!
>
>cfiddes@direct.ca     
>chris_fiddes@pdd-smtp.placer1.wimsey.com 
>
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Hey- forget power windows; theyre right inline with electric can openers
and tv dinners- go manual and if girlfriend cant handle it get new
girlfriend too. What are you crazy? Its your vehicle...
Otherwise, dont waste time trying to hunt parts- make it work by installing
your own system- go custom!

polzultov

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