WAZZZZAP said:

A constantly open window is something no one needs, especially in rainy Wales.

Basically my rear driver side window has come loose-ish and falls down the door whenever it gets slightly bumpy. I can grab the window with two hands and push it back up and down like 2 inches.

Its a manual hand crank window and if you tried to turn it either way it cant complete 1 rotation and feels really heavy/ crackly.

My question is can I fix it myself (not too experienced with cars but pretty handy) or shall I get it done by a garage, and if so what kind of damages am I looking at?

Thanks for reading.

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NotDylan said:

My car recently just started doing this EXACT thing but on both rear windows.
This also happened to a friend of mine (it wasn't a Punto, was a Renault Clio) and the fix took 5 mins to fix there was a clip that had come off a rail inside the door. Im gunna take my door apart tomorrow and see if its the same simple fix.

The whole door is mechanical with no electrics (apart from central locking) so it should be easy and very cheap to fix. Will report back!

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WAZZZZAP said:

A constantly open window is something no one needs, especially in rainy Wales.



Basically my rear driver side window has come loose-ish and falls down the door whenever it gets slightly bumpy. I can grab the window with two hands and push it back up and down like 2 inches.



Its a manual hand crank window and if you tried to turn it either way it cant complete 1 rotation and feels really heavy/ crackly.



My question is can I fix it myself (not too experienced with cars but pretty handy) or shall I get it done by a garage, and if so what kind of damages am I looking at?



Thanks for reading.

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WAZZZZAP said:

Cheers mate, I wont have access to my car for 10 days so Ill have to try fix it when I can!

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Pedrolami said:

Could be the wire on the mechanism has started to corrode. I had one fail on the drivers side on my previous GP... Progressively became more stiff to rotate, grating/metal on metal sound.
It came to the point that there was so much pressure on the cable that it simply snapped.
Had to get a replacement off eBay of all places, a new unit at the time set me back £30 and an afternoon to replace, and just having a mooch on there, they are about £23 at the mo.

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NotDylan said:

I finally got round to having a look at it and turned out its a cable that has snapped that attatches to the window handle. Shouldn't cost much probably about £10 new or a few pound from scrap yard.

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WAZZZZAP said:

Ahh right, sounds not too bad, hopefully the fix wont be too expensive!

NotDylan, cheers mate, was it hard to get into the door?

When I looked I saw like 2 or 3 screws towards the bottom of the door, I assume theres one in the handle too?

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