I recently swapped the crappy factory speakers in the front doors and a few week after swapping them a noise started when window is wound down, it makes a noise about 3/4 of the way down and same on its way back up. A friend has a passat and said his made the same noise then his window packed up completely! is there any prevention or something I could do before it breaks if that is the case? is it something that comes loose etc? I would rather sort it now and prevent further damage at a later date.

Any help or tips would be great cheers

regulator may be knackered or something is catching on the way down

I also get a noise 3/4 of the way down and up, found that talcum powder on the outside weather strip cured it.

regulator may be knackered or something is catching on the way down

If the noise occurred as soon as fitting the new speakers then I could guess either the speakers were being caught, or something had been dislodged during their fitting.

Suprise suprise it was a wire or connector that must have just been in the way of mechanism so pulled wire back out a bit and re fitted speakers and it has stopped doing the noise so all in all a result.