So now after pulling away from the mother-in-laws, I wind up the windows, and the rear right hand clunks and drops right inside the door like a bloody stone. Grrrrrrrr. 47 miles in freezing, piddling weather, and with my 7year old on board too. Not amused.

Not going to get time to look at it until next weekend either, so I'll have to finish tidying up the garage so I can lock the damn thing in it.

Likely failure and costings anybody????

I could have bought this car twice already with what I've spent now...

Oh **** mate :(

I feel for you, when things go wrong i just wana kill it !!!

It just went kaput did it?

Just a guess .... Like it fell off the runner

Or the runner has came of the mechanism ??

Hopefully when u take door card off it be something obvious mate

:(

Rear window regulator

Between £20 and £40 on the bay of E! But a pain to fit

This went in my Audi. Jase has it spot on - Window Regulator gone.

Yup, happened to my last Octavia - common problem on the Mk4 Golf platform cars. As above, £40-ish for a new one, bit fiddly, but you can do it in an hour. For now, half a wooden peg down the runner to keep the glass up

This went in my Audi. Jase has it spot on - Window Regulator gone.

So what happens to them?.... do they just snap off or something inside the door?

I'm just glad I'd already swapped the interior. Them S3 seats clean up with just a quick wipe, and maybe I'll feed them again on Saturday.

Yep she went with a good clunk about 1 second after beginning to raise it up, and a few mumbled choice words were said under ones breath.

I'm assuming (probably wrongly) that this will be the same on an Estate as the Saloons...

So what happens to them?.... do they just snap off or something inside the door?

Plastic clips become brittle and snap over time or wire gets all chewed up in the gubbins, lol

+1 for the window regulator.

My driver door one failed and I replaced it with a cheap regulator off ebay. Now its chewed the wire only a few months later - might be worth getting a genuine part.

My rear window did exactly the same thing one day recently - press button, 'clunk', window drops into the door. I was 200 miles away from home.

But I just bought a roll of 'insulting tape' from a nearby garage, hooked the glass out of the recess with a pair of long-nose pliers, pushed it back to the top of the door by putting an open palm either side and pulling upwards, and taped it in place.

200 mile drive home in comfort like nothing had happened

Best carry a spare clothes peg in my arm rest for when this happens... preventative measures and all :-)

Best carry a spare clothes peg in my arm rest for when this happens... preventative measures and all :-)

Yeah, what age does it seem to start happening? im running a 04 plate... Should I start worrying about the day the windows die?

Yeah, what age does it seem to start happening? im running a 04 plate... Should I start worrying about the day the windows die?

Well mine's a '51 plate and it did it on both the driver's side front and rear about 18 months ago.

Which means in the next 18 months, yours will too! It's coming dude....dunno, where, dunno when - but it will strike, lol!

Keep a roll of gaffa tape in the glovebox and do what I did above if it happens to you miles from home...

Keep a roll of gaffa tape in the glovebox

and some plastic sheeting and an old carpet in the boot...

Yep... luckily i usually have all that in the boot any way in case i need to bodge anything at work!

Is there a greater risk of it happening if the door card has been removed?

I dont believe it has been, none of the mountings look like theyve ever been moved.

If your door cards have been taken off in the past and the membrane has been removed and not been re-sealed properly then there is more risk of moisture getting into the door and affecting the electrics. Usually that only happens when owners have been messing around installing speakers etc... if a garage has had the door apart to work on the locks or windows they'll hopefully have re-sealed the membrane properly.

its that word "hopefully" that fills me with dread!!! :p

If your door cards have been taken off in the past and the membrane has been removed and not been re-sealed properly then there is more risk of moisture getting into the door and affecting the electrics. Usually that only happens when owners have been messing around installing speakers etc... if a garage has had the door apart to work on the locks or windows they'll hopefully have re-sealed the membrane properly.

Might affect the electrics, yes, but this post is about the regulator mounting snapping and letting the glass fall into the door.

Door card / membrane removal won't make a blind bit of difference to this problem - the issue is weak plastic clips that go brittle with age and snap one day!

I seriously doubt the interior mounted membrane will stop moisture getting in anyways. Easier for moisture to pass through the window wipers on the outside than through the interior...

And as for it having any bearing on the condition of the electrics, well... again ^

This happened to me the night I brought mine. Took it to jet wash about 10pm wound down Windows to demist wound up and glass dropped inside door! Lol. Took me 2hours to get the door card off in the dark. Wedged a milk carton under the glass and brought repair kit from ebay for 15 quid. Since then I've brought spares and keep them in the boot.