My experience with X5 window regulator

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- Another report on VDO window regulator.
- Installed Nov. 2019, almost 3 yrs later, still OK.

- However, I hate this job of replacing win reg so much that I minimize its use, i.e., I avoid lowering the glass if I can. So:

1. No drive-through coffee! I stop at the shop and walk in for coffee, the old-school way lol.

2. At work, where I need to swipe a card to open the gate: so in order to swipte the card, I open the driver's door instead of lowering the glass.

So far the VDO win regulator seems fine, nice and quiet. It is a good company (Continental-VDO), they just happen to use a factory in Taiwan to make it. The whole engineering thingy is bad anyway: a whole bunch of plastic pulleys and cables...eventually, something will fail. I still prefer the "scissor system" as used in Volvo, which is essentially bullet-proof, except for the cheap plastic sliding blocks ($5/each for Volvo sliding blocks).

3. On hwy, if I need fresh air, I just crack the LF glass down a few inches and also the RR glass down a bit to allow air to flow through.

Anyway, VDO Price reasonable.

- VDO WR51136 (for left front) = $85-$90 or so.