Removing the door card eleccy window replacement.

[DazVR6]

Braught a replacement window mech of ebay and wanna try and change this myself, ideas on removing the door card?

[saul79]

door handle off 2 screws-  door pin off -screws off and and doorcard is clipped on.

seal behind the door card is smegged on -heat with an hairdryer to heat glue makes it easy to take off
if the window doesnt go down it will take longer to take off the 2 x 10mm nuts that hold the glass in
other than that its pretty straight forward unplug the motor
 undo the 10mm bolts that hold the reg on and slide it out

[DazVR6]

So just prise the door handle off..? and once you remove the screws the door card just pulls off..?

[MowatGTI]

You can't go wrong mate.  

Im a total novice and have done it a couple of times.  I also just bought a mech from the bay.

As long as you remember where everything goes its a doddle.

I found some bits a bit hard to get off, only because they are plastic and didn't want to break them, but in the end they shifted no problem.

How much did you get the mech for?

[MowatGTI]

Don't touch the handle.  It stays in.

[DazVR6]

£56 including postage.....so wheres the screws, at the bottom of the door card..?

[MowatGTI]

Got my one for £50.  Yours brand new aye?

Can't remeber off the top of my head, but as soon as the door card comes off, its obvious.

The Haynes manual has a walk through of it too.

[Paul86S2]

try http://www.icbm.org/erkson/personal/mycars/door_panel_removal.htm

from the maintenance info at the top of the mk 3 section

also look in there for window mechanism replacement under diy guides

cheers

Paul

[DazVR6]

Ok well tried to do this today but got a little stuck, got the door card off and removed the nuts that hold the regulater inplace but couldn't get the brackets that hold the glass out, its impossible as there is no room inside that part of the door and i didn't want to brake the glass.

What am i doing wrong..?

[saul79]

the window motor is dead then - use a 10mm rachet spanner .is the mech- snapped or is the motor dead