The_Greg
Enthusiast
So, I cracked open my driver's side door today expecting to see a broken and irreplaceable window regulator (Only because its better to expect the worst and be surprised than the opposite) and found that the window was getting grabbed too hard in the guide that matches to the A pillar when the door is closed. When the window is rolled down, the back goes down a ways before the front does, and when the channel lets go of the front of the window it crashes down about 0.5" and is loud, annoying, and awful.
So first off, I totally wrecked the plastic piece on the top of the door. Its broken in many places. What a POS.
Second off, the regulator lines looked fine. No cracks, nothing strange with that. Which is strange! So after watching it a couple of times with the door card off I realize the problem. I look deeper and sure enough, the channel that is supposed to hold the front of the window to the regulator track is NOT holding the window; the window isn't even sitting in it because the channel is rotated and the window is sitting on the white plastic piece that carries that metal channel. D'oh! I also found another pin in the bottom of the door exactly like the pin that holds the black metal channel into the front plastic regulator guide. I'm guessing this was left in the car from when it got a new regulator 20k miles ago by some Viper tech in Arizona... Does anyone know if there is a second place for that same pin in that door?
So I ended up adjusting the A arm-area guide thing and using my fingers to pry it apart some because it was squeezing the window too hard and applying silicon to the channel to try and bond it to the window again. Its sitting in the garage curing, I'm hoping that will be enough for many more enjoyable miles with the car.
I'll try and follow up after its all fixed regarding what I do to fix the stupid broken plastic piece and detail what all I adjusted to get the window working better. I also think I might shoot some white lithium grease into that a pillar channel so there's less friction on the window. Stay tuned.
So first off, I totally wrecked the plastic piece on the top of the door. Its broken in many places. What a POS.
Second off, the regulator lines looked fine. No cracks, nothing strange with that. Which is strange! So after watching it a couple of times with the door card off I realize the problem. I look deeper and sure enough, the channel that is supposed to hold the front of the window to the regulator track is NOT holding the window; the window isn't even sitting in it because the channel is rotated and the window is sitting on the white plastic piece that carries that metal channel. D'oh! I also found another pin in the bottom of the door exactly like the pin that holds the black metal channel into the front plastic regulator guide. I'm guessing this was left in the car from when it got a new regulator 20k miles ago by some Viper tech in Arizona... Does anyone know if there is a second place for that same pin in that door?
So I ended up adjusting the A arm-area guide thing and using my fingers to pry it apart some because it was squeezing the window too hard and applying silicon to the channel to try and bond it to the window again. Its sitting in the garage curing, I'm hoping that will be enough for many more enjoyable miles with the car.
I'll try and follow up after its all fixed regarding what I do to fix the stupid broken plastic piece and detail what all I adjusted to get the window working better. I also think I might shoot some white lithium grease into that a pillar channel so there's less friction on the window. Stay tuned.