Adventures in Car Repair

fred@fredjean.net (Frederic Jean) — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:23:19 +0000

Saturday, Mollie drove the Jeep to run errands while I was being interviewed by our social worker. Her car was still downtown since she was a little tipsy after a good dinner at McCormick's Fish House.

Once the interview was over, she came back. She had the guilty look of a kid who knows that she is in trouble and blurted out "It's not my fault!" She then proceeded to tell me how she had the windows cracked, enjoying the nice weather. She heard a snap when she tried to roll the windows up, and the driver window started to sink into the door.

So I took out the driver door panel, took out what I later learned was the power window regulator and saw that the cable was no longer attached to the part that held the window. After doing some research on the web (Google and Froogle are your friends), I placed an order for a new regulator.

Driving the Jeep around wasn't too bad since we did have nice weather on Sunday and Monday. I did get nervous since I didn't hear anything from the merchant that I purchased the regulator from though. After all, we are supposed to get rain and snow tomorrow, and I did want to go to the Denver JUG meeting. It would have been very uncomfortable driving in these conditions without a window. So I called the merchant. They had just shipped the part, but it wouldn't be delivered until Thursday.

So I called a local dealership to see whether they had the regulator I needed in stock (they did). I drove down, picked up the part, drove home and installed it. It was pretty straightforward now that I had been through a learning experience on how to remove the door panel earlier.

I'll still have the extra regulator though. I guess that I'll go ahead and put it up on eBay once I receive it.

Out of my mind...: Adventures in Car Repair

Adventures in Car Repair