10-07-2005, 09:51 PM
I took my 968 to the local Dealer today to have a tech look at the passenger side window. It fell down into the door a few weeks back. I removed the inside door panel...........looked to me like the metal ball ends at the top of the "Scissors" assembly that raises the window up had popped out of some sort of now missing plastic or nylon slider.
The tech who looked at it determined that that was exactly what had happened....he fished around in the bottom of the door and found part of one of the original plastic parts.
They are actually a plastic Roller that snaps onto the scissors assembly ball ends and allow the ball ends to smoothly roll back and forth in the tracks provided at the bottom of the window assembly.
This is the identical problem that most 126 series S class Mercedes experience with time. The fix was to buy a new $250 dollar regulator until an enthusiast took time to engineer a new nylon slider block (that he sold for $10) that could be peened onto the regulator after the original one was drilled out and removed.
Anyone know of a similar fix for our 944/968 cars???? Anyone know if there is an off the shelf part available that makes a suitable substitute for the OE Roller??
Brian Collins
The tech who looked at it determined that that was exactly what had happened....he fished around in the bottom of the door and found part of one of the original plastic parts.
They are actually a plastic Roller that snaps onto the scissors assembly ball ends and allow the ball ends to smoothly roll back and forth in the tracks provided at the bottom of the window assembly.
This is the identical problem that most 126 series S class Mercedes experience with time. The fix was to buy a new $250 dollar regulator until an enthusiast took time to engineer a new nylon slider block (that he sold for $10) that could be peened onto the regulator after the original one was drilled out and removed.
Anyone know of a similar fix for our 944/968 cars???? Anyone know if there is an off the shelf part available that makes a suitable substitute for the OE Roller??
Brian Collins
