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Originally Posted by Weasel
Look for the post with pics from mrbmwx5 (Tom) about a window regulator fix/modification.
He depicted a way of holding the lift cable into the plastic holder using a piece of home wiring (coat hanger would work ok too) Last time the rear clip let go on my drivers door window I stuck it back together like this and it has been holding up fine for months. This wouldn't be a bad idea to do to a new one to help prevent future problems I guess.
Good point JCL made about closing the doors with the windows down... that does put a lot of impact on the window regulator clips in a direction they weren't designed to handle and may very well be leading to most of the parts failures. As I say this I seem to remember throwing my door closed with the window down and heading an abnormal level of "clank", next time I went to use the window is when the rear clip failed. Not a coincidence!
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Thanks for the advice, his "fix" does look like it would work for a way to prevent the issues - or at least delay them.....
I do try to keep the windows up when closing the doors, unfortunatly this isnt always practical. Is there a way to keep the doors from slamming so hard? I have searched and dont see much on this...there must be some sort of adjustment (fingers crossed) or a part to replace? Its clearly an issue.