Put the window down today and it was very noisy and making graunching noises. Sounds like something has broken.

Would let me put the window up to a point then wanted to go down again. With a little perseverance it went back up so it's watertight but as this site has many, many "oracles" I'm pretty sure someone already knows what the issue is.

Any ideas? I'm assuming it is something plastic but I as I said I am assuming and you know what they say about that don't you!!

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Munster

Sounds like the window mechanism is munged, needs stripping and replacing.  Had this go on the passenger side rear.

Yup.. window regulator.

my passenger side one was done before i bougjt it (stamped in the service book)

Edited 25 January, 201610 yr by mac11irl

Shame this wasn't at the weekend as could have brought a regulator up the m5.

Eventually graunching will stop. When it breaks and glass falls down.

Have one I can post. Will do you a special deal as you let me have those alloys.

Yes regulator is about to snap. I replaced many of these over the years, but then i found someone on ebay selling the whole mechanism slider and all for a couple of quid more than the repair kit..... new but obviously not genuine.

Another one who's certain that the regulator is about to break. Do not open the window unless utterly essential until you've replaced it.

Shame this wasn't at the weekend as could have brought a regulator up the m5.

Eventually graunching will stop. When it breaks and glass falls down.

Have one I can post. Will do you a special deal as you let me have those alloys.

It would have to be a special deal mate

Given the cheap enough price of a new one, is it worth going through the hassle of fitting a secondhand one which could also go?

Did a couple of jobs today with the window regulator being one of them.

Found this when I took it apart.

So it looks like the PO has had a problem in the past and rectified it in his/her own way.

Anyway it works so I decided to leave it and just tape it back up.

Also managed to fix the door handle "pull" as I found that the wire hadn't been pushed into the holder correctly.