Hi, everybody

I have a "small" problem.

I have octavia 03 with broken driver power window. The initial problem was that one of pins on the control unit connected to the motor in the door was rusted and it made my windows and complete central locking not working. So i got that part from scrapyard and changed no problem, everything started working apart from drivers window. So now i have feeling that motor is gone. I have motor from the same car witch had that control unit taken off. So my problem is removing motor itself as its covered within the door and not accessible. In the manual it says that to remove motor, you have to remove glass, and to remove glass you have to move it down by a third of open window, to access safety bolts release the glass.

So can anyone tell me how to move window down if motor is not turning. Tried to push it by hard but nothing happens and do not want to do too hard not to break glass holder :(

Sorry for spelling mistakes.

And thanks for advice in advance.

Hi

Just wondered if you managed to get the glass down in the end?

I have exactly the same problem - I have a new regulator and motor, but the window is fully closed and I can't budge it to get access to the bolts.

If you or anyone else can help with how to get the window down, I would very much appreciate it,

Thanks.

Necessary checks and How to remove window motor when window is fully closed.

Hi,

I thought i'd share my knowledge here. I just worked on a 5door skoda Octavia 2003 model, I was just hearing clicking noise on the passenger side front window when i pressed the button to put the the window down, all other 3 windows worked fine.

step 1- I checked all the connections and wires the were all fine.

Step 2- I Removed the connector from the motor and inspect the connectors for any rust terminals. (clean terminals and no rust)

If the wires and connectors are fine then your next guess is the motor.

The problem is that to remove the motor you must open the metal panel which the motor is attached to.

To open the panel you got to remove the two 10mm Bolts that hold the window. to remove those bolts they must be see-able from the two large rubber covers on the metal panel. The window has to come down slightly in order to remove the Bolts.

How did I do mine

1) on the motor you can see 4 (star) or T25 screws- holding the silver motor with plastic housing. Remove all 4 screws using T25 star screwdriver.

2) Pull the motor out of its casing. you migh have to fiddle a little but it should come out fairly easy.

3) Once you pull the middle bit of motor (Bit with the wire winding) You should be able to push the window down with you hand.

4) if you fail to push it down with you hand what u can do is put the middle bit of motor back in and spin it with you hand while firmly pushed in. its a slow process but you should be able to wind the window down like that.

I hope this helps.

I'm sorry for any mistakes , it's pretty late for me had a long day fixing my house.

Cheers Mohammad for advice.

As im still driving with this problem now i cant get motor for my car, Skoda dealer adviced me that its 300 quid for new one. Its crazy!!! So maybe anyone can advice me were to get second hand one? I need one for 4 el. window model.

Thanks

great first post mohammad and contribution to the forum!

i have a motor, but its for the rear driver side on a uk spec car. best bet might be a breakers yard

Thanks Quarry, i guess so, need to check around