Sluggish Window - easy DIY trick
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Sluggish Window - easy DIY trick
I've had a slow passenger-side window for a while, so today I asked my father in law how to fix it. He's an old-school mechanic who just retired after 54 years (yes, FIFTY FOUR! He started working at 11 as an apprentice in a workshop, believe it or not).
He was a mechanic for the police, so he's worked on all sorts of cars, not only patrol cars: in Spain, where we are from, the police can use impounded cars with judicial approval, so he's worked on Porsches, Ferraris... if a drug dealer's owned it, my father in law's probably fixed it for undercover operations.
Anyway, I thought he was going to say "strip open the door", but instead, he asked me if I had a syringe... we filled it with motor oil (5W30, if you care) and dropped a couple of drops on the edge of each glass pane when it was rolled almost all the way down. That lubricates the guides and after rolling it up and down a few times, it made the window go 3x faster!
I bought the car used, so I don't know if it's as good as new, but it's definitely much, much better than before.
Thought I'd pass it along.
He was a mechanic for the police, so he's worked on all sorts of cars, not only patrol cars: in Spain, where we are from, the police can use impounded cars with judicial approval, so he's worked on Porsches, Ferraris... if a drug dealer's owned it, my father in law's probably fixed it for undercover operations.
Anyway, I thought he was going to say "strip open the door", but instead, he asked me if I had a syringe... we filled it with motor oil (5W30, if you care) and dropped a couple of drops on the edge of each glass pane when it was rolled almost all the way down. That lubricates the guides and after rolling it up and down a few times, it made the window go 3x faster!
I bought the car used, so I don't know if it's as good as new, but it's definitely much, much better than before.
Thought I'd pass it along.
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The window has a U shaped guide at the front and rear of each door glass. It's the tracks for the window. Over time the seal that sits in the U shaped channel gets gummed up and additional drag is created. Lubricating this seal will help. I imagine he put the lube on the outer edges, not the surfaces you look through.
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Here you go, Shawn. The idea is to put a drop of lube on each corner, then raise and lower the window, then another drop, and so on. Don't put it all at once.
You might make the glass dirty, but that's ok, just wipe it off and you'll be good to go.
You might make the glass dirty, but that's ok, just wipe it off and you'll be good to go.
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I will try this as well. Thanks.
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