Technically not today....

Saturday, I rolled into Grandma's driveway and she was outside on the front porch. So I rolled down the rear window so that my kids could wave at her. Roll the window back up and POP! The window doesn't move. My wife and my mother in law look at me like I've broken the window, why can't I make it go up? I can't, it's broken. 1 hour drive home with the wind blowing in my toddler's faces wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.

Sunday, I know there is an E53 that is pretty fresh at the local pull your own parts yard so I go check it out at 8AM. 3 of the window regulators have already been removed, destroyed, and laying on the ground next to this X5. However the door is closed and locked for the door that I need. I purposely brought my power drill and some extra wire for this. I energized the vehicle with my Ryobi drill battery long enough to unlock the door and then get it opened. I popped the panel off and there was the regulator that I needed. pulled the plug off the regulator motor and used my drill battery trick again to power the window down so that I can line the bolt up with the window in the regulator track. 4 quick zaps from the 8 and 10 mm in my drill and out comes the regulator.

Install was just as easy. I did notice some cracking in the plastic on the freshly installed regulator. This has me a little concerned that my fix may be temporary. Who knows it might last a few years and at $26 it isn't much of a gamble. I will probably be pulling a spare regular from the next junked X5 that I come across.