When all else fails,
Aug. 13th, 2005 04:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
armbread the instructions.
The Audi's driver's door window had been making graunching noises for a while. You can't replace just the cable, it needs a whole frame/cable/motor assembly. Vindis estimated around £400 for the part and fitting it. I had bought one from someone breaking his car a while back but not fitted it because of the global round tuit shortage. Going into the carpark at Luton airport to go on holiday, I made the mistake of winding down the window to take a ticket. The mechanism finally broke, down, so we had to leave it with a tarpaulin over the open window for a couple of weeks. (And then the battery was totally dead when we got back.)
Today I finally got around to fitting the replacement mechanism - which was a lot easier once I actually read the bit of the Haynes manual saying I was expected to dismantle the entire door before undoing the clip holding the window onto the slider bit.
To do soon - remember where we put the detachable front panel of the radio [EDIT - found it], or finally get round to fitting the radio that came out of the previous car, with its CD changer. But fixing the slow leak in the pipe near a hot water tank in the house is probably higher priority (it's a soldered joint (not one I did) leaking, so it means draining the system).
The Audi's driver's door window had been making graunching noises for a while. You can't replace just the cable, it needs a whole frame/cable/motor assembly. Vindis estimated around £400 for the part and fitting it. I had bought one from someone breaking his car a while back but not fitted it because of the global round tuit shortage. Going into the carpark at Luton airport to go on holiday, I made the mistake of winding down the window to take a ticket. The mechanism finally broke, down, so we had to leave it with a tarpaulin over the open window for a couple of weeks. (And then the battery was totally dead when we got back.)
Today I finally got around to fitting the replacement mechanism - which was a lot easier once I actually read the bit of the Haynes manual saying I was expected to dismantle the entire door before undoing the clip holding the window onto the slider bit.
To do soon - remember where we put the detachable front panel of the radio [EDIT - found it], or finally get round to fitting the radio that came out of the previous car, with its CD changer. But fixing the slow leak in the pipe near a hot water tank in the house is probably higher priority (it's a soldered joint (not one I did) leaking, so it means draining the system).