warwound

Hi all i'm back with another 'little problem' on my 1995 Favorit LXiE.

A few days back i wound the driver door window up and the window failed to rise and close - it dropped at the front and i needed to manually support the window as i wound it up to closed position.

Today me and my mate took a look at it and it looked like the front regulator channel had simply lost it's grip on the window and dropped to the botton of the regulator rail.
We spent a little while forcing the window back into position but then trying to open and close the window just pulled the front regulator channel free of the window again.

After a bit of inspection we came to the conclusion that the regulator channel should be fixed to the end of a cable that is enclosed in the rail that holds it.
The winder mechanism simply winds the cable one way or the other and that causes the window to open or close.
(We originally thought the rear regulator did all the push and pull and the front channel was a guide only).

Here's a few pics to show the problem:

Rear regulator guide - in place but a little dis-lodged due to my fiddling today.


No front regulator guide!


My wonky window! I have to manually pull the window up from inside and outside to properly close it.


The front regulator guide - that's my finger at the bottom of the pic holding it up - else it just drops to the bottom of the rail it's attached to.


Am i right in thinking that the front regulator guide is supposed to be attached to a cable inside the rail it's attached to and it's now broken from that cable and needs replacement?
Or is the front guide simply in need of being firmly re-attached to the window?

Hope that's all clear!!

Martin.