Electric window problems w210

[maddog]

I recently had a problem where the drivers window was wound all the way down and wouldnt come up at all, after many tries it did come up ok

Few weeks later my wife had the passenger window do the same but this time it wouldnt come up at all, so into MB for new motor and £300 bill!!

Yesterday the drivers window again jammed halfway down and would wind down fully but only come halfway up.

again after a few tries it wound itself up again.

any ideas???

dont fancy another £300 mb bill as ive spent almost £2k this year with them!!

 

[clive williams]

I recently had a problem where the drivers window was wound all the way down and wouldnt come up at all, after many tries it did come up ok

Few weeks later my wife had the passenger window do the same but this time it wouldnt come up at all, so into MB for new motor and £300 bill!!

Yesterday the drivers window again jammed halfway down and would wind down fully but only come halfway up.

again after a few tries it wound itself up again.

any ideas???

dont fancy another £300 mb bill as ive spent almost £2k this year with them!!

Maddog,

I don't know if the problem I had with the 500E rear window had a similar cause but the symtoms appear the same. In my case the bracket connecting the window glass to the vertical guide sprang open, partially releasing the ends of the guide wires, which wrapped themselves up on the guide power pulley allowing only partial operation. Repair meant removing the door casing, the motor and winder operation, re-laying the cables and repairing the bracket. The motor itself was none the worse and the kinked cables still just about wind properly and getting better the more I tried it.
It could of course be electrical or a u/s motor but either way you will still have to remove the mechanism to check or replace (assuming you've checked the fuse etc first). Hope its mechanical as apart from a little plastic clip I had to make, the whole lot didn't cost me anything but time.

Clive

500E
E320CDIT210

 

[maddog]

Maddog,

I don't know if the problem I had with the 500E rear window had a similar cause but the symtoms appear the same. In my case the bracket connecting the window glass to the vertical guide sprang open, partially releasing the ends of the guide wires, which wrapped themselves up on the guide power pulley allowing only partial operation. Repair meant removing the door casing, the motor and winder operation, re-laying the cables and repairing the bracket. The motor itself was none the worse and the kinked cables still just about wind properly and getting better the more I tried it.
It could of course be electrical or a u/s motor but either way you will still have to remove the mechanism to check or replace (assuming you've checked the fuse etc first). Hope its mechanical as apart from a little plastic clip I had to make, the whole lot didn't cost me anything but time.

Clive

500E
E320CDIT210

well it seems fine now so its an intermittant problem, trying to pre-emt total failure

 

[television]

MB say that failure is due to aligment of glass side rails, there must be 1mm clearence top and bottom
To normalize the windows, hold the button down for more than 1 sec after window has closed
this damp time of the year could make the above out of spec

Malcolm