Manic mechanic
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Greetings everyone, I have just registered so this is my first post. We have had the Doblo for a few months and I have used the forum a few times when I wasn't sure about things but I think for this one, I need a registration and so on.
So our Doblo was hit by a taxi, he tried to overtake us, ran out of road, tried to cut in in front of us and hit the side of the van, So damage if relatively light to the door, although the wing mirror was obliterated and the handle's taken a bit of a bang. The wing is the worst, it's all out iof shape and allignment, headlight and bumper are OK strangely. Insurance are fighting things out, forgot to say the other driver fled the scene and had to be chased down, so that doesn't look good for him, at any rate we think it's obviously not our fault but will be happier when a decision is reached.
Being an older car we half expect we will end up fixing it ourselves and in order to keep it on the road we have had to dpo some 'repairs' 2nd hand mirror and trying to sort the central locking has proiven difficult, so currently the fuse is pulled, may ask about that later. What I am most interested in at present is the window mechanism. When we took the door apart to fit the mirror the clip that holds the glass in broke. I have replaced that but the window moved side to side too much. It comes down OK but whenever I try to put it up it falls forward by about 2", you can manually pull it back and it goes all teh way upbut looking at the other side there is ont about 2mm of movemen side to side. All teh runners seem OK and the rubbers seem OK so I am stumped. Wondering if there are any diagrams of the mechanism or if anyone has any experience of this.
So our Doblo was hit by a taxi, he tried to overtake us, ran out of road, tried to cut in in front of us and hit the side of the van, So damage if relatively light to the door, although the wing mirror was obliterated and the handle's taken a bit of a bang. The wing is the worst, it's all out iof shape and allignment, headlight and bumper are OK strangely. Insurance are fighting things out, forgot to say the other driver fled the scene and had to be chased down, so that doesn't look good for him, at any rate we think it's obviously not our fault but will be happier when a decision is reached.
Being an older car we half expect we will end up fixing it ourselves and in order to keep it on the road we have had to dpo some 'repairs' 2nd hand mirror and trying to sort the central locking has proiven difficult, so currently the fuse is pulled, may ask about that later. What I am most interested in at present is the window mechanism. When we took the door apart to fit the mirror the clip that holds the glass in broke. I have replaced that but the window moved side to side too much. It comes down OK but whenever I try to put it up it falls forward by about 2", you can manually pull it back and it goes all teh way upbut looking at the other side there is ont about 2mm of movemen side to side. All teh runners seem OK and the rubbers seem OK so I am stumped. Wondering if there are any diagrams of the mechanism or if anyone has any experience of this.