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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: gti_taff on 18 May 2004, 18:24

Title: Broken 'leccy window!
Post by: gti_taff on 18 May 2004, 18:24

Just when summer and the good weather comes along, my electric drivers window has stopped working! Normally i'd just put it in the local vw speacialist but right now i am very skint and so im gonna have a crack at doing it myself.
I was wondering if anybody has any experience of this kind of fix - any info would be much appreciated.
As I press the switch i hear a click and you can see the rev's drop a slight bit; just like wot normally happens. So i think it could be the mechanism that raises/drops the window.
Help!

Title: Re:Broken 'leccy window!
Post by: golfvr6 on 18 May 2004, 18:43

sounds like you need a new window regulator.

Title: Re:Broken 'leccy window!
Post by: gti_taff on 19 May 2004, 17:14

Cheers mate, im off to go and price one up now! Ta!

Title: Re:Broken 'leccy window!
Post by: mrwotto on 19 May 2004, 20:06

yeah same happened to my mk3 a few months back, welcome to the club lol

Title: Re:Broken 'leccy window!
Post by: Burnsy on 20 May 2004, 18:54

My rears drivers side has just gone to :(
How can i test whats actually gone ?

Title: Re:Broken 'leccy window!
Post by: mrwotto on 20 May 2004, 20:12

maybe best to check to see if you have got power tot he switch etc with a circuit tester, also maybe best checkin the fuse aswell

Title: Re:Broken 'leccy window!
Post by: tezyuk on 24 May 2004, 10:59

hi i had the same problem last week tried new motor and switch and in the end it was a broken wire !!!!!!! open the door pull back the big rubber and check all the wires one of mine had snapped all working ok now good luck!!!

Title: Re:Broken 'leccy window!
Post by: Burnsy on 24 May 2004, 14:20

Ive just replaced my 2 rear motors and sliders (1 has never worked since i brought it ) and all work fine now :)
Went to the local scrappy and got um both for 60 quid ;)
Not a bad days work me thinks

Title: Re:Broken 'leccy window!
Post by: mrwotto on 24 May 2004, 21:39

is the motor in the back the same as in the front?

as was thinking of swopping my back drivers for me front one as i dont use the back as i not sit in the back lol

Title: Re:Broken 'leccy window!
Post by: Burnsy on 25 May 2004, 09:41

Maybe worth taking off your door panels and seeing if they match up
You cant seperate the motor unit from the sliders though unless you dismantle the unit and take out the actual motor
Good luck :)

Title: Re:Broken 'leccy window!
Post by: junglist on 24 July 2004, 19:49

wonder if any1 can help me with my passenger window problem. it seems to have a mind of its own!! >:(
it works when it wants to. works sometimes and other times it does'nt. does any1 have an idea as to what the problem could be?? theres no wires loose behind the door panels. any help appreciated. thanks in advance!!

Title: Re:Broken 'leccy window!
Post by: philip_felop on 09 August 2004, 09:52

Quote from: mrwotto on 24 May 2004, 21:39

is the motor in the back the same as in the front?

as was thinking of swopping my back drivers for me front one as i dont use the back as i not sit in the back lol

mrwotto - did you find out if the back regulator is the same as the front?
cheers,

Title: Re:Broken 'leccy window!
Post by: J-man on 11 August 2004, 08:23

Im in the club too.

(Posted this in another thread as well but hey)
I know there is the motor for driving the window up and down but what you you call the runners/cable that join it all together? (sorry for the stupid question) its just that I need the whole lot and not sure what im meant to be asking for. Is it the motor and regulator  or window mech, motor and regulator?

Cheers