flusted 0 Posted October 3, 2005 My leccy driver mech is broke :cry: Can it be replaced with 1 from a passat or something? Also,ive noticed they are riveted in,are they easy to change? Thanks in advance Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
davidwort 0 Posted October 3, 2005 My leccy driver mech is broke :cry: Can it be replaced with 1 from a passat or something? Also,ive noticed they are riveted in,are they easy to change? Thanks in advance It's corrado specific, although on mine the motor bolts in to the mech and could probably be swapped for a similar one from another VW. Replacing the mech is grief but do-able. You need to strip the door, detach the glass from the mech and tape it in the up position the drill the rivets out. They take pretty large rivets when you put the new ones in. I'll be surprised if you get away without scraped knuckles doing this job :x It's also nice and waxy and oily in there just to make it worse. For some reason one of my motors jammed and by undoing the 2 bolts (star drive) that connect the motor to the mech (just reachable) and tightening it back up it all worked again OK, been OK for a few months now. David. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flusted 0 Posted October 3, 2005 mines a snapped cable!!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gibber 0 Posted October 3, 2005 flusted, dude if you pay the P&P I will give you a complete corrado door! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kevin Bacon 5 Posted October 3, 2005 Yeah as Mr Wort says. Replaced mine last year with a whole new mech and you get new rivets with the assembly....although....from the stealers, you're looking at £180+VAT but that includes the motor. Be careful which rivets you drill out, but keep a rivet set handy, just in case. It's the same as the rear wiper, you have to find the right angle to remove the assembly and it takes a while. Strong coffee on standby. davidwort, inside the cable coil assembly (attached to the motor) is a series of rubber blocks that absorb the sudden shock of the motor kicking in. When the motor siezes, it's usually these rubbers getting tired and loose and slackening off part of the assembly and resecuring seems to reset it....it buys you time but doesn't cure the problem unforuntately. I replaced mine because the driver's one, the most used, progressively became slower, especially over winter, so rather than replacing just the motor, I replace the whole lot and it's back to full speed again. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
slant 0 Posted October 26, 2005 Is it possible just to fix the broken cable. Thats the problem Ive got, everything else works fine. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
