'morning folks, hope this finds you all well?
You may have noticed I posted in the "not grumpy but not smile" thread that I did a big service and front pads/discs on my daughter in law's Jazz on Friday. During the test drive I always test all the "wee" things like window winders and all the other controls.
Usually the test drive, on any of the "family fleet" goes without incident and I get considerable pleasure from enjoying the car, for a half hour or so, running just as it should. I like to drive with the driver's and passenger's windows down for some of the time when possible - you can listen for "outside noises" better that way. It ran beautifully and I was feeling very pleased with myself until I came to wind the driver's door window back up again when I stopped out side my house. It was triggering the anti-trap just before it closed fully. My daughter in law said, "Oh, it's been doing that for a while". I will refrain from appropriate comments! She went on to say "but it's Ok because if someone pushes it in from the outside as you raise it then it goes all the way up".
I was worried that it might be something internally to do with the electric winding mechanism - not the sort of thing which is usually easily fixed, often causing bleeding knuckles! So I was almost glad to see that the rear glass guide was showing a "polished" wear indication at almost exactly the point where the window was triggering the emergency stop.
I gave it a good spray of silicon oil and, thank goodness, it's now working absolutely fine with the motor sounding much less strained. I then went round and tried the other 3. The O/S rear sounded "bitty" by which I mean it was smooth in parts but you could hear the motor working hard at one point in particular. So I sprayed all the glass guides on the car and they are all now "as smooth as silk".
So now to why I'm mentioning this. I've used silicone oil for lubing window guides for many years and, being non greasy, I find it works well. The only criticism I could level at it is that it tends to need re-treatment quite often to stay effective. Anyone found something better for this job?
You may have noticed I posted in the "not grumpy but not smile" thread that I did a big service and front pads/discs on my daughter in law's Jazz on Friday. During the test drive I always test all the "wee" things like window winders and all the other controls.
Usually the test drive, on any of the "family fleet" goes without incident and I get considerable pleasure from enjoying the car, for a half hour or so, running just as it should. I like to drive with the driver's and passenger's windows down for some of the time when possible - you can listen for "outside noises" better that way. It ran beautifully and I was feeling very pleased with myself until I came to wind the driver's door window back up again when I stopped out side my house. It was triggering the anti-trap just before it closed fully. My daughter in law said, "Oh, it's been doing that for a while". I will refrain from appropriate comments! She went on to say "but it's Ok because if someone pushes it in from the outside as you raise it then it goes all the way up".
I was worried that it might be something internally to do with the electric winding mechanism - not the sort of thing which is usually easily fixed, often causing bleeding knuckles! So I was almost glad to see that the rear glass guide was showing a "polished" wear indication at almost exactly the point where the window was triggering the emergency stop.
I gave it a good spray of silicon oil and, thank goodness, it's now working absolutely fine with the motor sounding much less strained. I then went round and tried the other 3. The O/S rear sounded "bitty" by which I mean it was smooth in parts but you could hear the motor working hard at one point in particular. So I sprayed all the glass guides on the car and they are all now "as smooth as silk".
So now to why I'm mentioning this. I've used silicone oil for lubing window guides for many years and, being non greasy, I find it works well. The only criticism I could level at it is that it tends to need re-treatment quite often to stay effective. Anyone found something better for this job?
