Afternoon All

My son slammed the door last night with the windows down and I got a horrible grinding/crunching noise when I tried to pull it up using the switches on my side. Looked on the forums last night and established that the windows regulator needed replacing. Given that it was Bank Holiday Friday and Monday tried to get it sorted today, next Wednesday was the best time being offered. I stripped the door down and I had rivets on the skin so that was a none starter. Anyone had any experience with doing this themselves or should I leave it to the professional, looking at the guides and stuff there all taken in garages were all the parts/tools you could need are available.

My local skoda garage said they couldn’t do anything until next Friday!

Laters

Afternoon All

My son slammed the door last night with the windows down and I got a horrible grinding/crunching noise when I tried to pull it up using the switches on my side. Looked on the forums last night and established that the windows regulator needed replacing. Given that it was Bank Holiday Friday and Monday tried to get it sorted today, next Wednesday was the best time being offered. I stripped the door down and I had rivets on the skin so that was a none starter. Anyone had any experience with doing this themselves or should I leave it to the professional, looking at the guides and stuff there all taken in garages were all the parts/tools you could need are available.

My local skoda garage said they couldn’t do anything until next Friday!

Laters

Once you have the rivets out and door carriers off, it's actually pretty straight forward and can be done with basic tools. Your only problem would be getting the carrier riveted back to the door.

Once you have the rivets out and door carriers off, it's actually pretty straight forward and can be done with basic tools. Your only problem would be getting the carrier riveted back to the door.

Thanks for the reply, its just the worst time to try anything given the bank holidays and no where will be open. From what I have seen and read it does look straight forward but I wouldnt know were to start regarding the rivet gun have asked around and none of my mates have one.

try any motoring discount shop like motorworld or halfords and the such they are open bank hols and should have a rivet gun and rivets a plenty

try any motoring discount shop like motorworld or halfords and the such they are open bank hols and should have a rivet gun and rivets a plenty

I got charged 80 squid in the end by a local garage, I wouldn't mind but you know when you have that gut feeling your getting ripped off but I had to have the car sorted for work and stuff. The speaker was put on wrong and I had to reconnect the cables, took less that 30 minutes to take/pull the panels off and reconect the speaker. The skin has been rivetted in though.

Thanks for your replies.

Euro Car Parts sell the complete regulator mechanism for under £50 and it is an OE part made by Marhl. It is relatively easy to change. I done mine in an evening but mine was bolted in. Your biggest challenge is the large rivets. Other Briskodians have changed the regulator themselves and gone to a Skoda garage to have the rivets replaced.

This thread may help. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/180622-door-carrier-removal/page__p__2170353__fromsearch__1#entry2170353

Considering the price of the regulator, I don't think 80 squids is too bad for a garage to fix it if they've replaced the entire thing.

You can buy repair kits for £20 or so, but with labour charges on top, that doesn't sound unreasonable.

those rivets are quite big.... bigger than 6mm at least. Where did most people get their replacements from?

thanks!

good luck on finding rivits to fit it!

what i did was drill some new holes beside the exisiting mahoosive ones for a 6mm rivit

ISTR some of the cars either came with or ended up screwed or bolted rather than rivetted. It was mentioned in one of the "leaky doors" threads.

J.