Hello

Iv got a Superb 1.6 TDI greenline est 2012

The lift wire on the osf door has broken now iv look all over the net and I cant find any body who has posted how to change the wire. I got a replacement wire from ebay item number  222092671184..

Iv had the door card off and there is only a 200x300mm hole to work through now to be fair I was doing it outside and it was 0 degrees give or take so not really the best conditions lol.

I can seem to find the instructions in the on line workshop manual either.

I used to have a mk2 octavia and replace the lift wire on that fine.

Any help appreciated

 

Thanks

 

Steve

My 2012 went on the drivers side. In my case the dealer did it using five year warranty. I am not sure how they got it out but I do know that it was not just the wire it was also the pulley that the wire sat and the regulator as they call the window motor, as the wire became corroded it made it harder for the drive pulley to work from the motor. This resulted in a badly worn gear drive as well.

This was all as a result of the window water over a number of years dripping on to the wire pulley area and gradually washing the wire grease away. 

So be aware that it might not just be the wire.

Had both the driver and passenger side window regulators changed within a month, about a year ago.

 

The workshop told me that during the colder half of the year they have at least one VW in with the same issue, but usually it doesn't happen to cars this new. More common on cars that are about 10 years old. They used to specialize in Japanese cars, so they don't even get all that many German cars in. Bad engineering, it's like Danny 57 said.

Well I finally got round to doing this job it was a right PITA  ( the octavia one I did was way easer) you have to get all the bits out of the door through a hole approx 250mm x 200mm the hole is covered with a steel panel carrying a control unit of some type and the window winder motor.

The kit I got was off fleabay ( https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=roundel+blue+paint&_blrs=spell_check&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.TRS0&_nkw=+222092671184&_sacat=0) all the cables were the correct length but the plastic slider that the window glass sits  into has slots, these  slots were not deep enough to align the holes in the glass which takes the pins that holds the glass to the lifting unit.

 

So I had to take it all out and fit the old lifting plastic .

 

Also make sure you assemble it the right way round the rollers on the arms face towards the outside door skin and the round plastic wire guide faces into the car ......

I assembled it wrong and had about an hour trying to figure out what I had done wrong.

 

And it all got coated in some spray grease as the old wire looked like it had rusted through !! not so good on a car 5 year old car

Edited 26 December, 20178 yr by Steve__

shame you didn't take photos. thank you for the information though.

Did you inform the seller that the parts were wrong?

On 27/12/2017 at 11:24, superbdreams said:

shame you didn't take photos. thank you for the information though.

Did you inform the seller that the parts were wrong?

I was going to video it but it was so cold just wanted to get it done and yes have informed sell

I hear that!

 

The window regulators on superbs have wire braided cable that is too thin and flimsy to support a window as heavy, my first superb mk11 was an 11 plate and went through 5 front regulators in the 4 years I had it,first 3 were OK as car under warranty but every failure was broken cable. My next superb a 15 plate then had front regulator fail in first year,as usual I knew from experience and sound that the cable had once again snapped,I would say that skoda have had to replace a fair amount of these regulators over the years but cannot understand why they persist with the same supplier of an inferior product.