Was doing some cleaning up with the rear door card out of my passanger side rear window. The window has always worked fine. All of the sudden it no loner works. Also how do I get it up with the window now stuck half down
Rear Window suddenly stopped working
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Have you tried kick starting the motor by pushing on the gear with a flat screw driver? Does the gear try to move a little or is there no action? Does the other rear window still work?
First of all, have you tried both window switches? Sometimes one quits while the other still works. Also check fuse 9 (at least I think it's #9). One other thing, sometimes the motor is still working, but the window gets stuck. I don't remember this ever happening to me when it was half way down though. I'm sure others will have better suggestions for trouble shooting as well.
If you can't revive the motor, there's a white plastic gear - a pinion - that you can get to when you remove the plastic plug from the door panel. You can turn this to manually raise and lower the window. It's not easy or quick, but it works. BMW even supplied a tool for this in the original tool kit.
This page of the manual describes it:
https://e9coupe.com/tech/handbook/p_015.htm
If you can't revive the motor, there's a white plastic gear - a pinion - that you can get to when you remove the plastic plug from the door panel. You can turn this to manually raise and lower the window. It's not easy or quick, but it works. BMW even supplied a tool for this in the original tool kit.
This page of the manual describes it:
https://e9coupe.com/tech/handbook/p_015.htm
Yes did try the manual "push" that has worked in the past. This time totally dead
Yes other window does work. Are they on the same fuse? Thanks for the manual advice. It takes FOREVER andy advice on how to make it faster?
GOD BLESS YOU. It was the fuse. TIme for me to stop working on car! I should have thought of that
I know that realization all too well. Sometimes the hardest part of solving a problem is knowing when to give it a rest. It does take forever, which I think must be why they made a tool to do it. I'd never actually seen the tool, which made me go look for one in the FAQs. Of course @HB Chris had posted a nice picture of them in the tools FAQ. Even with the tool it still looks like it would take forever.
The window "comb" reminds me of a series of toys from my childhood. I am a child of the 70s, and there were these toys called SSPs. They were cars and motorcycles that had a relatively heavy flywheel in the middle that had a rubber "tire" around them. You would thread a toothed ripcord into the toy and pull it out as fast as you could. The teeth on the ripcord engaged with teeth on the flywheel and spun it up to a pretty good speed. Once going you'd set it down and the energy in the flywheel would power the car forward (for a while). They were pretty cool and very robust. Also ambidextrous if I remember right. The ripcord could be threaded into a hole on either the left or right side of the car.
Well, actually I posted that picture in the tools FAQ, of my own tools.
HB Chris (the former moderator) erased my post, took my picture and inserted it into his own post, without credit...
Whoa, didn't mean to ruffle any feathers. Thanks Jon B for your contribution(s) to the forum. Maybe you should watermark your pics so this can't happen again.
Thanks Dan, I didn't mean to imply any displeasure toward you.
And yes, especially on the Porsche forums where I'm far more involved, I now frequently include a little note with my name,
more so that my things don't show up on Facebook or eBay for sale :-(
And yes, especially on the Porsche forums where I'm far more involved, I now frequently include a little note with my name,
more so that my things don't show up on Facebook or eBay for sale :-(
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