So my driver's window has been playing up for a week and sounded a bit "grindy". Once it didn't go all the way up, but I helped it with one hand while pushing the window button with the other. I knew I had to investigate it but it didn't seem like an emergency.
I'm working 400km from home right now so I don't have access to all my stuff, and washing your car by the side of the road is illegal in Finland, so I took it to a car wash yesterday afternoon. I put the window down, entered the code, put the window up again.... and didn't notice the 5mm gap at the top. I sure did when the water started pouring through it though! . Thankfully I was able to pull the car forward, jump out and hit the emergency stop button. The car wasn't too bad. thankfully I have leather seats so I drove home (3km to my flat, not 400km to my house) with a wet *** and dried the seat and door off.
So I took the door card off to investigate. Seems the top, rear plastic guide wheel thing has broken into 3 pieces. So the cable is now running over the metal pin and ultimately the whole window isn't getting pulled up to where it should be. The question is... can I get a new plastic wheel and how the holy fukeroonie do I get it onto the metal pin? And also, was it just the plastic wheel that failed or is it likely something else caused additional tension in the cable to snap the wheel?
I'm working 400km from home right now so I don't have access to all my stuff, and washing your car by the side of the road is illegal in Finland, so I took it to a car wash yesterday afternoon. I put the window down, entered the code, put the window up again.... and didn't notice the 5mm gap at the top. I sure did when the water started pouring through it though! . Thankfully I was able to pull the car forward, jump out and hit the emergency stop button. The car wasn't too bad. thankfully I have leather seats so I drove home (3km to my flat, not 400km to my house) with a wet *** and dried the seat and door off.
So I took the door card off to investigate. Seems the top, rear plastic guide wheel thing has broken into 3 pieces. So the cable is now running over the metal pin and ultimately the whole window isn't getting pulled up to where it should be. The question is... can I get a new plastic wheel and how the holy fukeroonie do I get it onto the metal pin? And also, was it just the plastic wheel that failed or is it likely something else caused additional tension in the cable to snap the wheel?
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