Window regulator wire kit - any advice?

I need to repair the rear nearside window regulator mechanism on my Freelander Station Wagon and have bought a replacement cable kit through ebay. The instructions are very comprehensive but has anyone undertaken this repair and can offer any tips or problems to avoid when replacing the cables?
Cheers

yup - tons - try a :search: for window cable

FirstShropshirelad said:

I need to repair the rear nearside window regulator mechanism on my Freelander Station Wagon and have bought a replacement cable kit through ebay. The instructions are very comprehensive but has anyone undertaken this repair and can offer any tips or problems to avoid when replacing the cables?
Cheers

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Hi,
I have on my PC some step by step pictures repairing a freelander rear door which I can email to you.It is important to note the position of everything and cut the new cables exactly to lenght.
Could you email me a copy of the instructions from the kit you received then I can compare with mine. my email address is [email protected]

michaelcottrell said:

Hi,
I have on my PC some step by step pictures repairing a freelander rear door which I can email to you.It is important to note the position of everything and cut the new cables exactly to lenght.
Could you email me a copy of the instructions from the kit you received then I can compare with mine. my email address is [email protected]

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Why don't you post the pics as attachments in the link below:

http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f9/window-mechanism-40092.html

I was probably one of the first to do this repair, only I didn't have a digital camera at the time.
It was certainly long before the 'expensive' repair kits appeared on ebay

michaelcottrell said:

Hi,
I have on my PC some step by step pictures repairing a freelander rear door which I can email to you.It is important to note the position of everything and cut the new cables exactly to lenght.
Could you email me a copy of the instructions from the kit you received then I can compare with mine. my email address is [email protected]

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Thanks Michael for the offer but the kit supplier's instructions are protected by copywright so I cannot pass them on to you.
I managed to find a dry day in August and attempted the repair successfully. You are right to say that measuring the broken cable is important to ensure that the new cable is cut to the correct length (I stretched the existing cable on a workbench and clamped the broken part to the remaining cable to get measurements as accurate as possible)
The kit I used came with a 'spare' portion of cable that was supposed to be used to temporarily replace the length that was broken but I found it very confusing to attempt to use this cable, under tension, as a means of calculating the length of cable - it was far easier to clamp everything to the bench and measure it.
The ferals come with an epoxy adhesive kit that has to be mixed, applied to the cable and ferals and then heated using a hair dryer and empty tin can as a makeshift oven. It all sounds a bit daunting as you have to monitor a heat sensitive sticker to determine when the magic 93 degrees centigrade have been reached. It doesn't help that most hair dryers have an automatic 'cut off' when they get too warm - which this did - but I had a Black and Decker electric paint stripper at hand to continue the heating process.
I spent most of the time trying to get the cable and plastic reel assembled and back together - but succeeded after some very Anlo Saxon terminology was used.
I would still use this kit in the future if other regulator cables fail., unless someone can convince me that the Halfords cycle cable option works - the crimped ferals are likely to be the problem in the long term.
Regards,
FirstShropshirelad

Try this thread it has links to pics and instructions

www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f9/repair-tail-door-window-regulator-67657.html