Excellent work. Mods, can someone eventually please move this to the DIY section? Good stuff to know---

 

good diy.. i def liked the gloves.... haha

 

Oh yeah, the gloves. I didn't want to mess up my recent manicure...

 

this is much appreciated. Thanks!!!
oh and maybe add some photos if possible.

 

The pics are there. Apparently imagestation (where the pics were hosted) was down earlier today. Try checking it out again.

 

The pics are there. Apparently imagestation (where the pics were hosted) was down earlier today. Try checking it out again.

nice diy, i got to the point where i think ima change the motor, now ima give that a shot.

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i like this DIY then the other one, this one has pics


can it be merged?


thank you rundmsef, so professional with the gloves


lol

 

my windows roll at the speed of light

but cudos on the nice DIY. I'll probably shove a few Q-tips in there anyways just for the heck of it now that I know what everyone's talking about.

Thanks dood.

 

Nice one! I know what I'm doing tomorrow.

 

hey i'm having my windows tinted soon. Should i wait until after its tinted to lubricate it?

 

I will Try It Tomorrow! Let you kow!!

 

Wow man, I just did this. WORKS GREAT but it did take a little while. I used ~ hmm, like 135 Q-tips? hahaha but it really helped; now my windows come up aligned as well. I was having a problem with the driver's side window rolling up unevenly and making for a very noisy gap at the top of the window run channel.

This DIY = +5 stars.

 

i think my problm is the motor, i did this, didnt get too much gunk out

ill probably have to replace the motor or something

 

i did this awhile ago with wd40, and i noticed too that i didn't have a lot of gunk. though the wd40 helped a lot for about a week then it got slower again. i'll give the silicone spray a try. thanks for the diy

 

There isn't really "that much" black stuff to take out of the window run channels, but it certainly helps to get what you can out of it. I think it was mostly the silicone spray that helped ~ silicone spray "sticks" to the rubber better so it doesn't drip all the way down into your door like WD-40 does.

 

I thought you had to remove the door panel to lube up the windows?

 

No, if you look at it; the windows really only move along the window run channels and anything inside the door is generally protected from the elements. The DIY you see here fixes the "dirtiest" part of the window up/down process.

 

I thought you had to remove the door panel to lube up the windows?

Yeah, I thought the same thing. After reading all of the reccomendations on how to do this prcedure, I was still a bit confused as to what exactly I was supposed to be lubricating. I took the door panel off anyways (I was curious ). Taking the door panel off didn't give me any greater access to parts I wished to lubricate. Further dissasembly would be required to gain that sort of access. Besides, from what I could get access to, there seemed to be plenty of lubrication left from the manufacturer!

 

I generally use Lexol Vinyl cleaner(non sticky formula) on rubber and a small microfiber tower to wipe on/ wipe off. Alcohol may dry up rubber so a quick reconditioning spray should help prevent that from happening. Good job.

 

yah cause everybody said remove the door panel and you'll see the channels and you clean them and lube them with silicone so now i'm confused......

 

you kniw I wish pictures would have been in the first one hahah I was doing this stuff in the totally wrong place, lets go do it again

 

I just did this last night and I went through about 30 q-tips for all 4 doors. The windows roll up better but it's still a bit slow. I may have to remove the door panel and check it out.

 

I tried this it seams that it does help. I have windows up when alarm is engaged. I had problems not rolling up I thought It might be the motors I've been testing it for a couple of days. i'll get back to you!

 

now my windows were fine until about 2 hours later, do i need sillicone cause i used WD-40

 

i used silicone(when i did this awhile back) but i found out that silicone dries up. idk if its me but it dries up quickly. its fine till its dry.