22 Mar 2018, 17:25
Hi all,
My car came with a broken window regulator on the passenger side - could hear the motor whirring but window was stuck open.
The previous owner gave me a replacement second-hand regulator, so I finally got round to doing the swap.
After taking the door panels off, I could see that the old regulator had a snapped plastic bracket part of the mechanism.
I tested the replacement regulator, and nothing happened when I tried the switch up/down.
I then double checked the wiring by testing the old one and that whirred ok.
I assumed the motor of the replacement regulator had gone, so I removed the motor from my original regulator, and put that with the mechanism of the replacement - this also did not work.
So, both motors turn ok when seperated from the mechanism, but if I screw on the mechanism neither work - I just hear a click but no movement.
Is there something I can do to free up this replacement mechanism?
The picture below shows my original and the replacement - you can see the top one has a broken bracket.
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My car came with a broken window regulator on the passenger side - could hear the motor whirring but window was stuck open.
The previous owner gave me a replacement second-hand regulator, so I finally got round to doing the swap.
After taking the door panels off, I could see that the old regulator had a snapped plastic bracket part of the mechanism.
I tested the replacement regulator, and nothing happened when I tried the switch up/down.
I then double checked the wiring by testing the old one and that whirred ok.
I assumed the motor of the replacement regulator had gone, so I removed the motor from my original regulator, and put that with the mechanism of the replacement - this also did not work.
So, both motors turn ok when seperated from the mechanism, but if I screw on the mechanism neither work - I just hear a click but no movement.
Is there something I can do to free up this replacement mechanism?
The picture below shows my original and the replacement - you can see the top one has a broken bracket.
[attachment=303]