Offside rear door window started making graunchy noises a while back so I stopped using it until I could take a look at it. However, my hand was forced when the window slide down of its own accord the other day!
I took off the door card etc. and took out the winder mechanism,expecting to find knackered teeth and gears. It turned out the U-shaped channel that the bottom edge of the glass sits in was so rusty and weak that it had bent open and was now an 'L' rather than a 'U', so the glass had just slid past it.
I've got a new channel (£30!) but I'm wondering if I can fit it with the glass and frame still in place? With the rubber seal in it looks like a tight fit on the glass. I could use some silicon grease, but I think the channel is meant to be a tight fit so that the winder can pull the window down, rather than just relying on gravity, so grease would defeat the object.
I see from searching the threads that getting the frame out isn't too hard, but just wondered if anyone had done it in situ?
I took off the door card etc. and took out the winder mechanism,expecting to find knackered teeth and gears. It turned out the U-shaped channel that the bottom edge of the glass sits in was so rusty and weak that it had bent open and was now an 'L' rather than a 'U', so the glass had just slid past it.
I've got a new channel (£30!) but I'm wondering if I can fit it with the glass and frame still in place? With the rubber seal in it looks like a tight fit on the glass. I could use some silicon grease, but I think the channel is meant to be a tight fit so that the winder can pull the window down, rather than just relying on gravity, so grease would defeat the object.
I see from searching the threads that getting the frame out isn't too hard, but just wondered if anyone had done it in situ?