Window Stuck down

[barth4567]

:mad: My wife rolled the passenger side window down tonite and it just basically bound up and would not roll up for the life of me. It would come up a little with great effort and back down very easily. Kinda wierd actually. Have never had an issue with that window at all. Always down and up very easily. So I had to drive home with the window down. Here is the best part. It was 30 degrees and snowing. My wife was not real happy. So I guess it is pull the door apart in the morning and see what it is binding up on. Has this happened to any of you? Ideas? My wife is sitting by the fireplace still not speaking. Thanks

[sblake01]

Never had that happen on my Z but it did happen on my 810. The screw on the front track of the drivers side window had loosened up to the point where it finally fell out causing the track to move enough to wedge the window when I rolled it down. Pulled the door apart fixed it and used loctite on all the screws and nuts that hold the mechanism in place. Don't want to have to do that again. It wasn't snowing but it was a cold miserable night and I needed it fixed so I could go to work the next day.

[Zs-ondabrain]

First thing first, When you pull the door panel, DON"T mess withthe window. But rather grab a flashlight and inspect the inside bottom of the door for loose nuts, bolts or washers. Then start looking for where it came from. The window is jambing for some reason and it's probably a loose nut or bolt.

Let us know what ya find.

Dave.

[bigoak]

Are you getting any movement? When I got my car I had some minor alignment issues and if I rolled the window all the way down into the door it would get caught on the lip. A well placed smack while maintaining moderate upward pressure on the window crank worked like a charm.

I know, not high on elegance, but beats getting snowed on....(what were you doing out in the snow???)...

Cheers,

[beandip]

John, The new ignition is NOT the fault. Ha ha . Give the wife a kiss , I can just picture the situation. Ha ha. as was described look to the bottom of the door for parts, simply something has come loose and caused the glass to become jammed. Your biggest problem is your lovely second half. Lets go fishing. Ha ha Gary

[jmortensen]

I had this happen and the issue in my case was the rubber bumper at the bottom of the door disintegrated and fell out. This allows the window to go down farther than it should, which basically lets the top of the glass fall under the top of the door frame. The quick fix is to roll the window regulator down all the way, stick anything (car keys work) between the glass and the fuzzy weather strip on the inside of the channel, and slide the keys or whatever back towards the back of the door. This pulls the top of the window out from underneath the top of the frame and then you can roll it back up. Then all you have to do is keep people from rolling the window all the way down until you can get a chance to replace the rubber bumper.

There are probably a bunch of different things that can go wrong in the door, but that was my problem.

[EScanlon]

:mad: My wife rolled the passenger side window down tonite and it just basically bound up and would not roll up for the life of me. It would come up a little with great effort and back down very easily...

Broken Counter Spring?

Try pulling up on the glass as you try to crank it up. If that works, then you may have a broken spring, or a dislodged one.

If it doesn't help at all, you may have a stripped or partially stripped crank spline.

FWIW

E

[barth4567]

Update on the window. I took it apart this morning and it had came out of the channel at the back of the door.It was bound up pretty tight.I took the front sash loose and wiggled it toward the back and all the tension came off of it. Then moved the door glass around and got it back in the rear channel, retightened the front sash and it rolled back up. It was ok until I tried to roll it back down. Same thing as before. So I repeated the same steps as before except on the front sash there is some adjustment so I moved the door glass and channel toward the back of the the door some. It goes up and down allright, but I am not sure I have completely cured the problem. Maybe it was out of adjustment all along? I am thinking that , however as I said before it worked fine until last night. Strange. Luckily I have a couple complete door and glass mechanism's that are in real good shape so In time will replace these. Thanks to all who gave me some possible causes and solutions. Some of these issues can be a little intimidating at first. But after you pull them apart ( a few times) it seems to get easier:nervous:Thanks again guys. Happy New Year to all.