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Window regulators - micksgarage any good?

  • 16-02-2011 5:51pm
    #1
    langdang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,857 ✭✭✭


    Any one fitted micksgarage window regulators on any cars that are known to have regulator or motor problems?

    Were you happy with them, did you get a few years out of them?

    Just to add to this requests DIYness, has anyone had to deal with odd star shaped yokes clamping the glass. There is a special (and rare)BMW tool to do it, but I wonder would an adjustable hook wrench do it?

    Hopefully I can just do the motor, could not budge the yokes clamping the glass at all the last time I looked at it.


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  • #2
    nogoodnamesleft
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,031 ✭✭✭nogoodnamesleft


    It would be helpful if you could include your cars Model, Shape and year?

    Also what window is it? Driver or Passengers?


  • #3
    langdang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,857 ✭✭✭langdang


    nogoodnamesleft wrote: »
    It would be helpful if you could include your cars Model, Shape and year?

    Also what window is it? Driver or Passengers?
    Just wondering about general quality of them - I presume they just have a bulk deal with manufacturer X?

    I know well that there aren't many on here who would have changed a passenger side BMW Mini regulator or the motor, so I was looking for helpful info from anyone who would have used regulators from Micksgarage in other applications, or if they had come across those nylon star clamps in other windows.


  • #4
    BrianD3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,513 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    I fitted a micksgarage regulators on a Renault a few years ago and it has been fine. It was an Italian make, can't remember the name.

    The wiring/connector that came with it needed some modification to fit into the cars wiring. Apart from that, the regulator that I got included a motor and went in easily. However the new motor and regulator seemed to fit together slightly differently than the original parts. Had I bought a new regulator without a motor and tried to use my old (working) motor with it there may have been a headache.


  • #5
    langdang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,857 ✭✭✭langdang


    Cheers, I was afraid that would be the case - that all together the system works pretty much as the original, but that parts would not be interchangeable... ie micks garage motor + regulator is fine but micks garage motor + BMW regulator may not work.

    It's just the motor I need to change, just the actual electric motor part of it, not the plasticy gearing bits. If I could substitute in a Jap quality motor I'd pay at least the same price as BMW are asking for their underspecced offering..

    If I need to do the whole regulator I really would appreciate anyone else's experience of getting those big serrated washer clamp yokes off.
    Not necessarily on a Mini like, I'm pretty sure a big serrated washer yoke on another car window would work in a similar way. Anyone used a hook wrench successfully or made up a home made tool?


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