EDIT: Now with a guide (electric window mech)

[Jim Bowen 1]

:lol: :lol: everyone run & hide :lol:

 

 

i really need to sort out my electric window, doesn't close properly, leaves a 5mm gap and sometimes rises too straight and doesn't follow the curve of the door.

 

i have bought a new motor, mechanism etc, a big ol' lump of stuff :lol:

 

but really would like a hand with rivets etc i don't wanna cock it up

 

i'd be happy to pay someone for their time

[ben16v 0]

its not that difficult mate just time consuming and very fiddley

 

doing mine was one of the first jobs i did without any help

[Jim Bowen 1]

does anyone know the size of rivets i need?

[peanut 0]

how did you get on with this? If you dont mind coming down to sunny Kent im happy to give a you a hand.

Gav

[Jim Bowen 1]

i still havn't done it :lol: am putting up with the whistling and having to pull window up with my hands for the final bit :(

 

Thanks very much for the offer

 

How far is Kent from Essex? If you PM me your postcode that'll be handy.

 

I don't even have a rivet gun yet

[peanut 0]

pm sent

Gav

[Toad 0]

does anyone know the size of rivets i need?

 

Have you fitted the window yet?

 

I can try to find you some of the rivets I used and post them. It's best to use a set of lazy tongs rather than the plier type of rivet gun because of the location of some of the rivets.

 

Tom

[2_Door_fun 0]

Here's a link to my doing the job. Not hard at all. Get stuck in, drill the rivets, split the rubber mounts. Job done in an Hr.

 

Click here for widows

[Jim Bowen 1]

this problem just got worse

 

i know peanut very kindly offered to help, but lazy me never got round to doing it, Sorry about that Peanut (Gav)?

 

just driving now and heard a funny noise when doing window down, now the motor and stuff spins around (makes noise) but window doesn't move at all, i think something has broke

 

its now stuck with about an 1-2inch gap at the top :!:!:! can pull it up but doesn't take much to fall down :(

 

could this be the cable snapped? i found that the plastic guide that the cable runs thru at bottom of main arm, seems to let the cable slip thru it? is that normal

[Jim Bowen 1]

Right, i've been doing this tonight, not finished yet, i'll finish off my guide once job is done, i couldn't find the other thread with some of this in

 

Its a bit of an idiots guide tbh :lol:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I got the old mechanism out, but the rivets that came with the gun i got earlier this evening are too shallow, so finishing job when i get more rivets!!!!

[Jim Bowen 1]

i have a question

 

i just pushed the arms of mech away from glass to separate them from window

 

but the new mech has wheels on the ends of the arms, and now i have wheels still on the window in my door?

 

do i pull the wheels off the new arms and bin them, or remove wheels from window and fit to new mech?

 

how do i get the wheels off the window?

 

:lol:

[Toad 0]

They just come out the ends of the track. Put the best 2 you have into the window.

[Jim Bowen 1]

woohoo, all fixed and working fine now :D

 

very chuffed with myself, didn't have to bend anything, all went in quite well.

 

My tip = make sure you have drilled the rivets out the mechanism before putting it in place to be re-riveted :lol: Spent a while getting mech in, then i realised it still had the old bits of rivet in it :lol: = idiot

 

i put the mech in first, to the far left, then motor up high on the right. Then lower window a bit until top of mech is in the rectangular cutout on door, swing it into place, then raise window to get motor in place 8)