Re: TECH: Pwr window grief (was Re: What is the NAME of your car?)

["Scott Richardson" <sciroccoblk86@hotmail.com>]

Damn I'm glad I have manual windows. One less thing to go wrong.


Scott Richardson
'86 8V Scirocco


>From: drew <drew@dyermaker.cs.uoguelph.ca>
>To: "'Scirocco List'" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: TECH: Pwr window grief (was Re: What is the NAME of your car?)
>Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:52:11 -0500 (EST)
>
>
>I'm afraid that after fighting with Carrots' lazy driver's side power
>window (and eventually removing it in favour of a manual one, which
>involved changing the door panel, which was trashed and needed repair
>and...!) my current name for the poor girl would not be fit for this
>public forum.
>
>After removing (what a job!) and disassembling, cleaning and regreasing
>the gearbox and cable assembly for the power regulator, and then
>reinstalling it in the car, I was unable to get the motor to raise the
>window (kept overheating and cutting out.)  However, out of the car, the
>regulator slid up and down with speed, and a reasonable amount of power
>(ie it took some force to slow or stop the regulator as it went up and
>down.)
>
>It was only when I installed the manual regulator that I discovered the
>problem - I was unable to align the window guides and the regulator such
>that the window would go up and down freely.  It binds in more than one
>spot on the way up and then on the way down again.
>
>I've adjusted the slides as much as I can every which way (even followed
>the Bentley procedure) to no avail.  In the end, out of frustration, I
>lubricated the guides with a soap-like compound that has helped somewhat.
>The window is still stiffer than it should be though.  All the guide
>inserts are seated correctly, and are not deformed.
>
>Although I've since reassembled the door (including a new shower curtain,
>which was not replaced when the door was repaired at some point in the
>past) in retorspect I'm thinking that I should have used the guides from
>the donor car, in the even that one of my guides is bent or distorted in
>some way.
>
>Has anyone else experienced a similar problem, or was it just a bad hair
>day for my car?
>
>Also, what do people use for fastening shower curtains (or their
>replacements - I used a piece of 6mil clear poly film.) if the factory
>adhesive is missing or no longer sticky?
>
>Drew
>
>Drew MacPherson, Network Analyst, University of Guelph
>
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>
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