One of my rear windows only opens about 2 inches then is stuck. 

It's hand operated which I was happy about when I bought the car as I thought it would be one less thing to go wrong. 

But the flaming bugger has somehow broke on me FFS. 

 

Am gonna try and take door card of on the weekend but I wondered if anyone knew what it's likely to be ?? Or is it a common issue ?? 

 

Any advice is greatly appreciated 👍👍

Hi, welcome.

 

Possibly lack of use and build up of crud of some sort or a slip in the mechanism.  I had this when we first got the car but reasonable force and later preventative winding has got rid of the issue.

 

But in your case you could try cleaning and lubricating the rubber runner seals bit by bit, you give the crank handle reasonable force to get the window down as much as you can then clean and lubricate that bit of the seals, then wind up over the bit you have cleaned and lubricated and down a few times before repeating the bit by bit process until all runs smoothly.

 

Then in future when you open the back doors consider winding all the way down and up to keep things free. 

 

For cleaning and lubricating the rubber runner seals, I favour GT85 for this and many other things on the car as it's a good lubricant, penetrating/releasing agent, it cleans and smells nice, doesn't have silicone which can be good but has PTFE instead, once a British product now owned by a large well known corporation.

 

Once you have cleaned and lubricated (what many service, maintenance and repair jobs boil down to) then try to hand crank the win

 

You could also us a silicone spray (or oil) as demonstrated in this video. - 

 

 

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Thank you for your reply. 

I will definitely try lubricating before possibly removing door card. 

 

Cheers 👍

Thanks.  Taking the door card off should be easy but it's something I'd avoid if possible, 8 year old plastic bits on my wife's car I try to leave well alone.

 

In my post I didn't have the hyperlink right (now amended) so here it is just in case. - https://gt85.co.uk/

 

1 hour ago, nta16 said:

Thanks.  Taking the door card off should be easy but it's something I'd avoid if possible, 8 year old plastic bits on my wife's car I try to leave well alone.

 

In my post I didn't have the hyperlink right (now amended) so here it is just in case. - https://gt85.co.uk/

 

Cheers pal 👍