today myy front driver window died and fell into the door. does this happen everytime a window regulator dies. my back one is broken but the window didnt go into the door, it stayed up.

 

Steel wires keep it up. When it goes haywire, obviously it drops down as hay has no such strenght.

Rear door: motor, elec wirings, dataline dead...

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When this happened to me, I used the broken wire, jammed it around a screw and tightened the screw. This held the window up until my Ebay regulator arrived.

Others have used duct tape...the most versatile item known to man.

 

I second the duct tape idea. Did that when my front passenger side regulator died a few years ago and am currently using tape on my rear driver side window as the regulator died a few days ago. I think Brain (internetautomart) has pretty good prices on the regulator. I will be getting in touch with him soon for my regulator.

 

When you say fell into the door, do you mean by force of gravity or it stays in the position it was in before it stopped working (Assuming the window was rolled down)?

 

left is driver side, right is passenger side?

 

My driver door window dropped so hard, I am a bit surprised the glass didn't break.

My rear driver side one just slid down slowly (but woudn't move up). This happened when I was in between runs (drag racing) and I used some electrical tape to hold it up until I got a regulator.

These are common failures in our cars and I guess it just depends on how the wires get twisted and the plastic pulleys get broken.

 

just incase anybody needs it in an emergency situation i've had 3 windows held up for 2 yrs by securing the window assembly to wire that pulls it up and lets it down... hard to explain here are pics: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~jtdubach/orgpics/reg1
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~jtdubach/orgpics/reg2
all i did was secure it using some steel wire wound tightly around teh braided puller wire.
it was ment to be a temporary fix but turned into a permantent one since they havent let me down(no pun intended) yet.

 

do you have any more info on exactly how you did this?

 

just take the door panel off, and right around the middle of the door will be a column(so that when pulled, the glass will come up evenly, which is the stock location for the regulator also), what he did was tied steel wires to the glass support right underneath the glass and then ran the wire all the way up, then just pull the wire up, then wrap the wire around the door handle when he need the windows to close. Also, to open, just unhook the wire, and let gravity do its thing.

 

ok ill figure it out today, kind of ghetto but a lot cheaper than buying new regulators!

 

Don't be a cheap azz. Just fork over the $60 for a new regulator. I know most of you spend more than $60 on PS2 games and Taco Bell every month.

It takes about an hour tops to swap out and then you can actually roll your windows up and down.

 

hey man if you got an extra 120 layin around feel free to buy me 2 regulators.

 

just use some clear packing tape to hold the window up.
I drove around like that while I was doing my regs.

 

no no no...what the wire does is take the place of the plastic piece that broke off,it is so tightly wrapped that it holds its place on the cable that pulls the reg up and down. i dont "pull" or "let gravity do its thing" i press my window switch and it works just like normal.

mine way took that long and does exactly that, hehe.

 

oh, got ya, I got that idea from the way your pictures looks, I guess I better look closer next time, but hey, both way would works, one being more of a craptacular fix i.e. mine.

 

those windows are fairly heavey and pulling it up by a steel wire would prob. mess up ur hand as well as the seals, but i see what your saying.

edit: w00t 200th post

 

My regulator on all my windows already broke..... se and gxe. it really sucks, and i can't get my working gxe back since its a weekend and the garage shop isnt working.

 

I duct-taped WOOD under the broken window regulators on my '89 max GXE to hold the windows up... (hehe... good use of WOOD in an automobile!)

 

ghetto .