rebuilt window regs

cthawes · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 7:39 pm Post subject: rebuilt window regs

if anybody is intrerested i can rebuild cable type window regs are both the front and rear cable type?

recond they will be around $100

so if you guys have any stuffed ones around the place , send them to me so i can build up stcok and have a simple change over going

im in brisbane
you can send them rev post charg but i need all the parts broken cable and all so i know lengths ect

Gun Aristo · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 2:19 pm Post subject:

haha this would have been handy about a month ago.....
mine broke and the best i could get was a secondhand one from a wreckers for 240.... Sad

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OSEAN · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 2:35 pm Post subject:

I've heard these are problematic,
i've avoided opening my widow frequently to avoid the hassles.
its hard not being able to shout abuse out the window every 5mins.
Rant

if it can now be fixed on the cheap, i wont worry about breakage.
Very Happy

Incidently,
what actually breaks on the window regs?
(or is that trade secret?) Confused

Slain · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 3:42 pm Post subject:

i have one dead drivers side rear one in my car now and another one in the shed some where mate.
send me a pm with whats involved etc as i might be taking you up on this offer
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Gun Aristo · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:23 am Post subject:

on mine it was a little plastic guide for the cable.
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OSEAN · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:51 am Post subject:

Were these window regs' fixed on the series 2?
(not that mine is series 2...)

Warfare · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 11:36 am Post subject:

From what I've seen the cable type regulators in any cars just aren't as durable as the old 'scissor-type' arrangement you used to get in the 80's. All sorts of things go wrong with them, cables slip off the guide wheel as it wears down and get tangled, cable guides break, gears strip etc. A lof of the cable type ones don't have any sort of switch to tell them when the window is up fully so if people lean on the switches it can do them some damage etc etc. They're also a pain in the ass to install sometimes (crimping cable clamps on inside a door panel always sucks).
I've been driving around the 929 with both back windows about an inch down for the last year and a half Rant

damn frameless windows so I can't tape them up either! If my seats were cloth instead of leather they'd be soooo mouldy and soaked through by now.

Saying that, I hope the series 2 risto ones are better Very Happy

guess I'll find out a few months after mine lands if they're still working.

Slain · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 1:26 pm Post subject:

just do what i did with my aristo and jam a block of wood in there
been holding my window up now for a few months lol
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OSEAN · Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 1:22 pm Post subject:

incidentally,
my widow Reg. did go a few months back.
what were toyota thinking when they created these things? Confused

stupid mechanisms

Davidian · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 2:14 pm Post subject:

Does someone have a guide for how to get these buggers out? I have a replacement ready to go, all the bolts are undone but i cant seem to 'pop' the 2 bolts holding it in out, well not without looking like ill have to break the glass.

If anyone can help ASAP that would be great.

OSEAN · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 8:01 pm Post subject:

from memory, there should be 2 bolts that hold the reg to the glass Confused

look up into the works.

Davidian · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:22 pm Post subject:

I sorted it out, cheers