My very own update thread by BaseDrifter

2 minute(s) of a 155 minute read

2 days ago I heard a snap from my passenger door. I figured something with the window had just broken. When I got home I completely forgot and rolled the window down and wasn't able to get it back up.

I pulled the door card and frame off to find a nice collection of broken plastic pieces.

So I borrowed my dads A4 and made a run up to the pick n pull to grab the window regulator and motor from the 97 with 50,000 fewer miles on it than my car.

Success!

Rail guides intact.

I got the motor as well and its a bit quicker than my old one.

I will say that I underestimated the pain-in-the-assness of this replacement. It was one headache after another. The rivets holding the regulator to the frame were aluminum on the donor car, easy deal to drill them out, took 5 minutes. 

On my car? Steel rivets. Not the end of the world, just an unexpected pain. Also had to drill through and bolt one of them in place since the rivet was boxed in place. I installed new rivets in all the other locations. Also still trying to get the door frame aligned correctly, its pretty close though.

While I was there I checked out how the donor car for my cluster swap had it's coolant level sensor wired up. Turns out it was wired the same as my car with the coolant level signal going to pin 20 on the blue connector to the cluster. Tomorrow I'll do more testing to see if I can get that warning to trigger.

Still looking for a sport suspension...and I may have to get the new Treadstone intercooler.