How To Get Window Back On Track

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Whether information technology is due to age of the Prius (2003), the icy winters here in Minnesota, or the over-use of window controls by small children, I've had the door windows in the rear of my Prius fall off their supports four times at present. The outset two times cost between $150 and $200 to repair. So I set out to acquire how to fix the problem myself. I've fastened a procedure, with photos, for how to practise it. Aside from the well-nigh 30 minutes it'll take yous to read the instructions and mentally prepare yourself, you'll observe the job itself takes just about an hour if you're determined but a not-mechanic equally I am. There is one part in the procedure where you demand to use some force in an awkward position (hands within the door), just otherwise information technology is just a thing of systematically taking screws and bolts off, thinking a scrap almost how to position things, and then putting things back on in the reverse order you took them off. I promise you discover the directions and photos helpful. Skillful luck!
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That's a keen detailed write-upward! Thank you!
1 affair you didn't actually describe or photograph was the actual failure before you stock-still information technology. What happens in your machine? Is it that the regulator arm/wheel escapes the stop of the metal track? (You practise mention having to position the track and then that won't happen.) Or do the metallic track/rubber gasket dissever from the bottom of the glass? (Peradventure the drinking glass gets iced to the door and the track gets pulled off the lesser in trying to lower the window?)

Information technology would be nice to know more about the failure you're seeing. I wonder if there is some underlying reason for information technology to happen, that the dealer didn't correct when they put it back together.

-Chap
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Cheers for the request for more details on the failure. The window in one case got stuck in a partially down position, with the pocket-size wheel wedged between the glass and the door keeping the window from falling further downwards. The regulator motor would brand some weak sounds so I knew it wasn't burned out. In an try not to burn information technology out, I stopped using the motor once information technology was clear it wasn't moving the window. The window in the other case simply slipped all the fashion downward into the door, and couldn't be brought support.
In both cases I was driving in the winter with kids in the back seat (who know how to operate the windows), and there was a metal thud effectually the time of the failure. What I found in both cases on the bottom of the inside of the door was the metal support runway with the prophylactic liner still in it. And then the support rail likely barbarous off the window start and and so the small wheel on the regulator slid off the cease of the track (which is open up at both ends) to permit the window back up rail / rail to completely disconnect and autumn to the bottom of the door.

I don't know how the support rail pulled away from the window merely can speculate that one or more than of the following were the cause. (a) h2o freezing around the window could have sealed the window in the upward position; subsequent pushing the ability window push button in an attempt to lower the window could exert enough forcefulness to pull the support rail off (or partly off) the lesser of the window. (b) kids lowering the window office style and so leaning on the window asymmetrically could wedge the window (which has a bit of play) into a slightly stuck position which might allow the support rail to pull off the window if they and then attempted to lower the window further. Since it has happened to both windows, to ane window three times and to the other window once, information technology seems unlikely to exist a manufacturing defect (though having no screws on the rails to hold the window tightly into the back up rail could be a contributing factor). Could the mechanics who fixed the one window before not take pushed the window onto the gasket fully? Or could they have put some kind of lubricant betwixt the rubber gasket and the rail? – which would exist understandable given how tight a fit it is, but a bad idea if friction is a big role of what holds the window in place.

I hope this helps.
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I guess one other possible cause for the instance of recurring failure (support rail separating subsequently the initial repair) is if the rail were replaced in such a way that the wheel were very close to running off the end of the rail at some bespeak in its movement cycle. Then if the wheel were to coil off the stop of the rails it could become *above* the back up rail and when an endeavour to lower the window was made, the wheel could pull *down* on the rails with sufficient strength to pull information technology off. I guess that possibility would argue for being very careful about getting the runway support in the correct position when reattaching it.
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My friend rested his 'big fat arm' on my window and 'broke it'... I used epoxy to fix it back in the lilliputian metal tray/clips. $half dozen
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Gluing it in to effect a permanent ready makes sense, as long every bit the lubricant is wiped off first and the glue is put betwixt both the metallic support and the rubber liner and betwixt the rubber liner and the window. If ever the window truly bankrupt (into pieces), you'd have to work a bit harder to clear out the last glued in $.25. Otherwise, an understandable addition to the prepare.
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