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Aiden Cheese
TryHard
QLD
Soarer jzz30

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Reg: 09-2009

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Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - 01:38 pm, by:  Aiden Cheese (Chillpen) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Yup. It's happened and I can't find the keywords to search and find help on this one! I'm sure I can't be the first but if anyone knows where to look, please help me out.

To give you an idea of what I mean when i say "Fell down", the drivers side power window wound down fine to order my McD's snd then it didn't wind back up. I was pretty annoyed because I hadn't driven the car in about a fortnight and straight away a new issue cropped up, its been raining in brisbane for days straight and not being able to get the window up isn't exactly convenient right now when you down't own a garage.

So anyway I covered the car with a waterproof cover (it was about 2am when i had decided to give the car a turn over to get to maccas and back) and this morning had a look:

I took off the door trim to get a bit of an idea of how to get at the window.



I poked around for a while trying to find anything that looked out of place:


Finally i found how the window moved up and down and found inside the vertical pole, a piece of broken plastic:



So now what? I assume I've got to replace the bit which holds the frame of the window onto the runner? Any tips? Anyone selling that piece?
Peter Nitschke
Junk Filterer
South Australia
UZZ30 UZZ31

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Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - 03:41 pm, by:  Peter Nitschke (Pen) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Generally, you replace the entire mechanism - it's called the window regulator.

Check the tutorials.
Aiden Cheese
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Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - 08:23 pm, by:  Aiden Cheese (Chillpen) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

oh i see
Christian Somerville
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South Australia
UZZ31 V8 LTD

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Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - 08:44 pm, by:  Christian Somerville (Csomers) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I just replaced mine, $234 from Toyota, yours may be more because it is a JZZ
Phillip Evans
Tinkerer
Western Australia
TT

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Wednesday, April 07, 2010 - 12:19 pm, by:  Phillip Evans (Guesswho) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I picked one up from Kim Anthony at a good price! Ask him if he has any left or else I may have one or so more people who emailed me offering me one. PM me and I will get their names for you.
Evan Nguyen
Tinkerer
Victoria
Soarer TT manual

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Saturday, April 10, 2010 - 02:21 pm, by:  Evan Nguyen (Enguyen87) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I got mine from Ebay for $65 posted. It's nice having power windows that work haha.
Chris Round
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WA
Soarer TT JZZ30

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Saturday, April 10, 2010 - 04:29 pm, by:  Chris Round (Hermie) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I bodged mine up ... I couldn't get the regulator to come out after about 45mins of swearing and wriggling it around!

Patched the plastic grip so that it will pull the window back up, but it wont pull it down, so I engage the motor to go down and just give the window a bit of a nudge and let it slide down, then going up at least it pulls up and stops it.

I know that doesn't help you much, but you may be able to repair the plastic piece in some way that means it will grab and hold. Those replacement parts are expensive ......
Aiden Cheese
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Soarer jzz30

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Sunday, April 11, 2010 - 03:14 am, by:  Aiden Cheese (Chillpen) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Thankfully got that all fixed thanks to Justin, a member here :-)

I considered trying to fix the old broken plastic bit so that i could resell it for cheap but i've given up before i started haha. If anyone is interested in the part they can come and pick it up for free if they like. just mail me skythra at gmail.

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