Thread: It comes in threes, rear window failure

I must have stepped on something, no problems with Freebie and then three in a row within days.

Yesterday when closing the R/H rear window there was a bit of a bang as it closed, then it appears the drive system and window have become dissconected.
Bah.....Humbug....

Out with the RAVE CD again.

Pulled everything apart and found that the plastic cable guide at the upper end of the lift mechanism has failed. This allows the cable to wrap itself around the drive pulley and basically self-destruct from that point.
Looks like an element of build quality has influenced the failure in that a small rubber stop that acts as a cushion (reducing the shock load on the guide) appears to have never been fitted on the upper end.
I had a look at gluing everything back together and reinforcing with epoxy, but figured that would only fail again and given the state of the cable probably pointless.
So a number of cable ties applied during a session of much swearing have put everything back in place as a temporary fix. I will source a replacement drive mechanism as a complete assembly at some point, will just avoid using that window at the moment.

So my advice is if when raising or in fact lowering the window you hear a bit of a pop/bang, cease immediately any pushing of buttons to try and prevent the cable tying itself in knots.