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Electric window problems on seat altea

DAVID AKA MACKY · 2011-07-22 15:35:17

Last weekend my electric window decided to pack in.Beforehand it was giving a very annoying screeching noise every time it went up or down.I brought it to a guy whos actually a panelbeater and he had to take the whole inside panel off and what a job that was.Seems i now need a new window regulator and its going to cost…

22-07-2011 3:35pm

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DAVID AKA MACKY

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Last weekend my electric window decided to pack in.Beforehand it was giving a very annoying screeching noise every time it went up or down.I brought it to a guy whos actually a panelbeater and he had to take the whole inside panel off and what a job that was.Seems i now need a new window regulator and its going to cost 119euros.Heard its a very fidgedy job to install.Anyone here ever had similiar problems?

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#2 22-07-2011 10:39pm

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Common enough problem alright.

I posted about it here only a few weeks ago

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#3 03-10-2011 10:09am

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Must be something in the air, mine has just packed in as well on a 08 Altea XL, drivers side window. Same thing as the oP, screeching first and then it seemed to just detach. Balls.

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#4 03-10-2011 10:50am

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Most VAG cars have this problem. My audi failed at just over 2 year old. No advance warning just cable started to make the tearing sound on the way down and couldnt be put up again.
It wasnt a difficult job on my car. Some of the VAG cars have a rivoted panel to drill off and replace. Thats a bit of a pain but not a tricky job.

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#5 03-10-2011 10:57am

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I'm going to give it a bash tomorrow, did a similar fix on my old Nissan may times. Hopefully this works, if not I suppose I will have to bring to a main dealer :uh oh :cool:

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#6 04-10-2011 9:20pm

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HA ! mine has been doing this for a while and the dealer had put something like oil down it and it stopped for a short bit now its back with a vengence ? any chance you could do a walk through for us the not yet-mechanically-minded.

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#7 09-10-2011 6:11pm

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Sorry I haven't got round to it yet, although I did find this video online which seems to show it - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Pgrf44MynM

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#8 09-10-2011 8:30pm

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Cheers will take a look.!

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