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Title: Can you buy the White clips/guides for windows regulators ?
Post by: marky-gee on 15 November 2010, 18:26
My passenger side window looks to have chewed the White clip/guide that the windows rises up and down on, question is can you buy the White clips or do you have to buy the whole mechanism?

Ta
Title: Re: Can you buy the White clips/guides for windows regulators ?
Post by: Reasty on 15 November 2010, 20:55
Cant say ive ever seen them sold seperatly  :sad:
Title: Re: Can you buy the White clips/guides for windows regulators ?
Post by: marky-gee on 15 November 2010, 21:08
Quote from: Reasty on 15 November 2010, 20:55
Cant say ive ever seen them sold seperatly  :sad:

Bollox then, trip to the scappy it is then :(
Title: Re: Can you buy the White clips/guides for windows regulators ?
Post by: thai-wronghorse on 15 November 2010, 21:17
I manged to wrap a stainless steel cable tie around the remains of the last broken clip i had on my previous mk3, this worked fine for the entirety of the 3 years I owned it.
Title: Re: Can you buy the White clips/guides for windows regulators ?
Post by: marky-gee on 15 November 2010, 21:33
Quote from: thai-wronghorse on 15 November 2010, 21:17
I manged to wrap a stainless steel cable tie around the remains of the last broken clip i had on my previous mk3, this worked fine for the entirety of the 3 years I owned it.

How does that work?
Title: Re: Can you buy the White clips/guides for windows regulators ?
Post by: thai-wronghorse on 15 November 2010, 22:50
I took some ideas from this helpful thread

http://www.pocketrocket.ca/mk3_window_regulator.html
Title: Re: Can you buy the White clips/guides for windows regulators ?
Post by: marky-gee on 16 November 2010, 08:10
Quote from: thai-wronghorse on 15 November 2010, 22:50
I took some ideas from this helpful thread

http://www.pocketrocket.ca/mk3_window_regulator.html

great find, i might just try this.