jcl49er

Figured it was a matter of time something would go wrong after buying a 10 year old car but hopefully this is an easy fix.

I had rolled down my rear windows a bit this morning on the way to work. When I went to roll them back up, I heard a light "pop" and my driver's side rear window wouldn't roll up. When I got to work, I checked it out and I can raise/lower the window just using my hands. When I press the button, I can hear the mechanism going up/down but obviously, it's not catching the window on the way up.

I have some expensive stereo stuff in the car and it's getting pretty cold out as well. Can someone please tell me if this is a simple fix and if so, what exactly are the steps to fixing this. I'd really like to do this after work today so any help would be much appreciated.

Car is 1995 SE.

jcl49er

Bump for some advice. I read the thread on how to remove the paneling but I can't find anything for the actual fix of the window tracking or if it's something that can be easily taken care of.

jcl49er

All these knowledgeable people here and not one single person has any info on a power window coming out of track?

izzydig

There's a piece of plastic in there that mates between the window regulator pulley system, and the window. That plastic snapped.

Either buy a new window regulator (sometimes $40 or $50 on ebay), or go in there are plastic weld (epoxy) that piece of plastic that broke. If you go the cheaper and quicker route (which i did), I used some two-part epoxy that was made for white plastic welding (the epoxy wasn't clear, it was white and cloudy). I also thoroughly cleaned the two surfaces of the two pieces of plastic that broke with alcohol. I also used atleast half of the $5 epoxy I bought. I really built up the bond, so it doesn't fracture again.