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BarthiShieldbasher · Wise One Joined: 25 Nov 2005 Posts: 1191

I was going to type something witty about epic car repair and my struggle to get a car window stuck in the down position back up before the rains come.

Anyways, car is stuck in the down position, my car door is almost a solid sheet of metal underneath the panel, and nothing I could do was going to get it back up. Any advice on what kind of shop will give me a good deal? Any ideas on a temporary fix that won't make me a magnet for getting pulled over in Speed Trap, TX?
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Summer · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 8:51 pm Post subject:

Most body shops should be able to fix it for you. Good luck!
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BarthiShieldbasher · Wise One Joined: 25 Nov 2005 Posts: 1191

Summer · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:56 pm Post subject:

That's because replacing a bumper is a bigger deal than fixing a window that's right there. They probably had to order the bumper, and then there was all the work of installing it. To fix the window, you just need them to get inside the door and put the glass back onto its proper track and then put the door back together again. This supposes that the window mechanism itself is still in working order, of course, and that the window has simply come off its moorings, but that is the most common cause of a window that won't go up. The other thing that could be wrong would be the window mechanism itself, in which case you would want to obtain the proper part from an auto parts store and have the body shop install it for you. Of course, if you don't know whether the mechanism works or not, you probably need to have the body shop take the door apart in order to figure that out. Then all that's needed is the mechanism - if it needs replacing - and they can fix you right up.

No way should this take very long, provided you use a reputable body shop. Hint: try not to go to the one you used last time.
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BarthiShieldbasher · Wise One Joined: 25 Nov 2005 Posts: 1191

It's already fixed. Took it to the guy who did my fuel injectors last month.
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Summer · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 7:34 pm Post subject:

Cool! Congrats!
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BetteTheRed · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:35 pm Post subject:

I seem to be a magnet for cars with windows that fall off tracks. My regular mechanics fix them quickly for me. Free if they just have to put them back on.

Tends to be hard on windows up here because they're always freezing shut. And I have to open my window to wave a parking card at a machine. And electric windows, although a nice convenience, are just one more thing to burn out/short out/screw up. At least with the hand cranks, pretty well the worst that happened was that the handle or the knob would fall off.
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ScaledMystic · Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:05 am Post subject:

I've got a fickle driver's window, sometimes it likes to pretend it's stuck in the down position. When I pull on the bit of glass that still shows, it decides to move back up again.
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Doohickie · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 10:44 pm Post subject:

Whereinthehell is Speed Trap, TX? (I live in Fort Worth...)
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Davelaw · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:17 am Post subject:

I think he is in Lumberton outside of Beaumont.
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Summer · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:58 am Post subject:

Hoppy reports that the driver's side window on the Oldsmobile is now acting funny, too.

I suspect a forum-borne window virus.
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Doohickie · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:36 pm Post subject:

Heheheh.
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Davelaw · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:51 pm Post subject:

there is this little town next to Sugar Land called Meadows Place that is a huge spped trap town; but they only have 5 squad cars and only run three at night; so after i pass the third one i speed up at haul ass
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Davelaw · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:52 pm Post subject:

X. did u ever get your window fixed?
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BarthiShieldbasher · Wise One Joined: 25 Nov 2005 Posts: 1191

Oh yeah, right before the daily thunderstorms of last week too.

And well, I think I will go ahead an buy a new car since this one seems to be on its last legs. I've already canceled my move to Austin since I realized it would be stupid to walk away from a job where I am paid enough and into a city where I only know one person and he works in a book store and plan on leaving the country next year*.

*Leaving to study abroad. As an anarchist he really doesn't care who wins next year though as a smart anarchist he is trying to get rid of all his dollars and exchanging it for better currency, etc.
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