The drivers side window in my motor has dropped into the door frame, I think it has just dropped of rail or whatever holds it into place

How hard is it to get the door frame off to take a butchers

It's a 2001 VW Golf

Not hard at all.

Take off all the door furniture then there'll be a number of screws holding the door cover on. Once thats done there will be some press stud type fixings, pull them off carefully, they're easily snapped.

Job done!

What does the ad say?

'mmm. Just like a Golf!'

To be fair, its the first thing to go wrong in the time i've had it, its clocked up 150000 miles and feels and looks like new

I got rid of my Golf 6 months ago, it must be an inherent problem with them. I had trouble over a lengthy period with both rear windows and the front drivers side. Bring back windey windows any time for me.

Not quite!

Mk 4 Golfs were fitted with a carrier, onto which the window lifter, motor, door lock and assorted other gubbins were mounted. And is a fookin pain to remove........unless your me!!

A repair kit is available for around the £60 mark (new cables and plastic jaws essentially), or the afforementioned carrier which comes fitted with the new cables and jaws is about £150 from memory........horrible, horrible job!

Same thing happened to my sons girfriends vw last week it is a common fault

Think it cost me £90 at the garage when the window dropped into the door frame of our old golf..One less window to scrape in the morning Talbot..

I hate electric windows. My Mark 3 Golf has windy-up-and-down ones and they're never any chew.

The only problem I have with it is that in this weather the door locks freeze so I can't even get me key in them. The only way in is through the boot!

Someone told me to put WD40 in them, but someone said you shouldn't do that as it will knack the lock mechanism. Any other tips?

what about them things that heat up and go into the keyhole and defrosts them,iknow they'll have a name just can't think of it

Mr TA not sure if this applies to your model / year - I think it probably does.

http://uk-mkivs.net/forums/t/174557.aspx

Get rid of the golf and by something more reliable, like my Saab 93 Vector Sport, mind you the window washer motor burnt out the week before Christmas, neccesitating a phooking 60 odd mile round trip to Alexanders in Stockton!

no not lucifers,they are battery operated and have a metal prong that heats up you insert the prong into the keyhole and it defrosts it,they usually have a keyring on it

Hardly more reliable is it if you need to go on a sixty mile trip for a spare part now is it?

Cheap solution, as it's hardly the weather for fannying about with cars. Buy or obtain a sheet of perspex, make a template of the window, then draw around the template quarter of an inch bigger, force it in, nobody will notice short term, and when the weather improves short it out.
Roberts yer mothers brother.

Aye, worth a try like!

My advise to you Talbot is...... drive to work wearing a ski-mask ..

As long as the perspex is half a milli to a milli thicker than the existing glass it'll be so tight it wont move. I know it works cos' I once did it myself.

Get a Tesco bag and some sellotape......