Hello all!

 

This is one of my first times posting on a forum so I apologize if I format anything incorrectly or my explanation isn’t the best. When I bought my Fabia I looked over it and everything seemed flawless however on the exact same day when I got it home I put down the front passenger electric window, to my horror when I put it back up the window carrier decided to fall apart inside the door. Thankfully the internet exists so I bought a new window carrier off of ebay and changed it over. When I finally put it all back together it worked fine till the window got about 2/3 of the way down where it slows down and sounds like it is struggling. When going to put it back up it will sometimes go up before then going back down on its own accord, I think the most logical conclusion being because it thinks fingers are trapped, then the car has to be shut off and turned on again to put it back up. Needless to say this isn’t ideal but I’d kind of just left it as I don’t really have a need to use it. Is there some way to lubricate it without running the risk of it falling apart again as I don’t really fancy the joy that is getting the rails back together? On my other post I had described an issue with the lock and think it is inevitable that the door is going to have to come apart again so I thought it best to kill two birds with one stone.

 

Thanks to any advice in advance and have a nice day

 

Sounds like it's catching on something or there is too much resistance. Is the window sitting properly in the two clamps?

1 hour ago, TMB said:

Sounds like it's catching on something or there is too much resistance. Is the window sitting properly in the two clamps?

 

Just took a look and it is clamped in just as well as the driver one so there is a good chance it is one of the other things that you mentioned. Would you know there anything it could be getting caught on inside the door or failing that what could be creating all the resistance and a way to reduce it? Thanks

I'm not sure. Done two of them and never had this problem. The only way you'll find out is to strip it down again, unfortunately. It's a pig of a job at the best of times.

It does sound like the glass isn't seated all the way down in the clamps equally. 

 

Agree with Lee though, it's a pig of a job.