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Clips Changed - Window gets stuck again
Later, while driving, put window all the way down, and it got stuck again. Was able to get it back up by tilting bottom of glass. Not sure what is happening. With these clips all replaced, what is the next thing to examine?
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2003 X5 Sport w/Premium Package M54 3.0L 6cyl |
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I'm not to familiar with the windows but it looks like they use a pair of cables to lift and maybe one of the cables is sticking or has stretched causing the window not to lift/lower evenly and bind.
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I replaced the clips that attach to the cable, sourced from Ebay and resembling heavy white plastic versions of the original pot-metal ones. There was no way to properly install the clips without modification to the clips. The problem was that it was impossible to set the clip correctly AND get the "barrel on the wire" to seat in the clip without drilling the clip (removing some plastic flesh would be a better term) to set the barrel. FWIW, I would recheck that the clip is properly holding the "wire barrel".
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I think I figured this out...It was to some degree the 'white clip' from eBay that squeasel refers. The usually black clip that fits in the hole in the glass has a lip that must fit over top of the tab on the big white eBay clip. I got it to seat above with diligence, but probably would trim it a bit if it were not already installed.
By not having the black clip lip seated above, there is a gap between the glass and the white clip, that caused the attachment to lose grip and fail. Assume this is resolved unless I report back. BTW, I did have some challenge getting the cable 'bud' to seat into the white eBay clips. By rotating the clip or cable so that its metal 'buds' somewhat four sides slid into the somewhat square receptor on the clip solved the difficultly - once so aligned, I pressed it in fully with a small flat blade screw driver.
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2003 X5 Sport w/Premium Package M54 3.0L 6cyl Last edited by stevekat; 05-09-2016 at 01:03 AM. |
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