quote:Originally posted by Downunder:
the window does go up but sometimes but stops about a third of the way up.
Then you give it a sec and try up down a few times then it goes up all the way slowly.
Dennis
This is exactly how mine started, so you may have the same problem. This is what happened to me:-
The window would stick about a third up and again about an inch from the top. At first I could nudge the window past these points by giving it another try and this worked better with the engine running.
As a temporary fix I dismantled both window mechanisms and swapped the passenger side gear wheel to the driver side. I could see that the reason the window sticks is that crack opens up as the cracked part of the wheel passes the worm drive. The crack on the passenger side is now so bad that the window won't move at all. I expect the driver's side to fail soon as the wheel is cracked, but not all the way.
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