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Changing front window and locking motor assy

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Old Jun 16th, 2011, 23:38   #1
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First of all remove the speaker cover. Insert a flat screwdriver roughly where I have inserted the screw driver and genlty push the clip and lift the cover slightly while releasing the rest of the clips. Underneath the speaker cover there is one screw holding the door panel to the door, that needs to be undone


Remove carefully the trim near the mirror (yellow square). Remove the plastic covers (highlighted in the yellow circles) that are on top of the various screws. Unscrew the screws and take note of which one goes where. Not all are the same size






Remove the window/mirror control unit.You need to lift the rear part first and then pull it gently backwards.
Lift the window/mirror control unit from the panel and unplug the two plugs attached to it. To remove the door panel, pull the bottom part away (it is held by two or three clips) from the door about 30 degrees and then lift the whole thing upwards and it will just come off. This is what your door will look like wih no panel. Be very careful with the plastic mebrane (plastic sheet) as it can rip if too much force is used pulling it. THe membrane is attched to the door with some sticky stuff similar to blue tac but stickier. You can either undo it very slowly by pulling gently, or another way is to use a sharp stanley knife and cut the "blue tac" in half.


Undo that screw which secures the external door trim


Remove both internal and external door trims


Lower the window down until you can see the bolts through those two holes. The window is resting on that piece of metal so you can safely remove the two bolts lift window and navigate it out of the frame.


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DOOR LOCK MECHANISM REMOVAL

Undo the two screws and one bolt. THat bolt is holding the door lock motor.

Push that piece of plastic inwards (very little and shift the whole plastic thingy 1-2 of millimeters to the left). Also undo the door lock knob from that clip (highlighted yellow square)


Pull that plastic clip outwards gently and move the whole mechanism to the left. See next photo too. This black plastic thingy should be free now. Also undo




Undo the bolt (highlighted in the square) and then the 3 screws.
The bolt is holding the metal plate that covers the key lock and door handle internally. The 3 screws are holding the locking mechanism.


Try to unglue the plastic cover or if you rip it, make sure you cover it after you are finished. Through there there are two screws that hold the metal plate that covers the key lock and door handle internally. Undo both of them.


Lower the metal plate on the side as in the picture.


This is the tricky part if you are doing this for the first time. You need to pull these two metal rods away from their clips. See next picture too. This part was the trickiest for me as visibiltity is limited and you do most things by feeling with your hands. They are easy to pull out but a bit trickier to put back. Nothing hard though. When you have to put this back together, make sure the metal clips are vertical as the can rotate 30-50 degrees either way. When you are putting in the lower metal rod, you will notice that the metal clip it is suppose to go into, also moves up and down. Make sure you hold it up with one finger while you are pushing the rod inwards to clip on it




Unplug plug from the bottom of the door lock mechanism


Gently guide out the whole mechanism and be careful not to bend the metal rods in doing so


This is it.....

Follow the same instructions backwards to put everything back together. Please note that you do not need to remove the glass to get access to the door lock mechanism and motor.
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Old Jun 17th, 2011, 09:41   #2
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Nice one gatos was there a problem with locking mechanism?
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Old Jun 17th, 2011, 09:43   #3
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VERY useful, thanks !!!
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Old Jun 17th, 2011, 11:15   #4
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Gatos, that's an excellent guide, with quality photos You even repainted the door, whilst doing it!

Can I boldly add a bit, with regards to remembering where all the screws and bolts have been taken from. If you take a thin cardboard box and a thick felt-tip pen you can make a 3-D record of the origin of everything taken out. By just making holes in the box with a terminal screwdriver, some of them are self-tappers and don't need the holes making.
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HI Gatos you starting a spares business LOL, nice motor mate good luck plenty of spares Volpete
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Gatos, that's an excellent guide, with quality photos You even repainted the door, whilst doing it!

Can I boldly add a bit, with regards to remembering where all the screws and bolts have been taken from. If you take a thin cardboard box and a thick felt-tip pen you can make a 3-D record of the origin of everything taken out. By just making holes in the box with a terminal screwdriver, some of them are self-tappers and don't need the holes making.
lol. No i did not repaint any doors. The maroon colour is the door from my proper S40. The light green door photo is from my project car I am taking apart.

The reason there are two colour doors is because I forgot to take photos in the beggining and by the time I was going to put everyhting back it was going to be too late. So, I took a quick photo of the red door which obviously was intact....

And yes thanks for your idea of the screws and carboard. Until now I was using a big A3 paper and was cellotaping the screws at the right place....... Cardboard it is for me from now and on.

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Nice one gatos was there a problem with locking mechanism?
No the locking mechanism was fine. Someone asked a few days ago about the locking mechanism motor, so this was my chance to make a guide as I have a car on my disposal to do anything I want to it.... . The window was broken when I got it and luckily I had a spare glass from last year and I replaced it. While i was doing that I thought making a guide of both window glass removal and lock removal. First time I did it it took me 3-4 hours to remove the rear lock mechanism. Now, it took me about 1 hour and that included the photos taken and me washing my hands every time before I used the camera....

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HI Gatos you starting a spares business LOL, nice motor mate good luck plenty of spares Volpete
Nah. It wouldnt be fun if it was a business. Feel free to drop by anytime and pick what you need.
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brilliant write up Alex, I shall be tackling this, this weekend all being well, hope the weather holds up, up here in Yorkshire.
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Well I tackled the problem yesterday, took the plastic membrane off, sprayed a small amount of WD40 in the actuator area and low and behold the problem seems to have been cured, that is to say that I operated the system with the remote key fob a few times, so I am keeping my fingers (and everything else) crossed.
I'll let you know in a few days time an update.
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Dear "gatos".
Your pictures are terrific and cleared some of my worries.
I'm now working on a 2004 S80 and attempting to replace the Rear Right door actuator.
I wonder if you can help me with a few pointers.
1. I only have one blue spring clip. Do you pop the spring clip with a screwdriver. And then when you reinsert the link, do you just push it back in?

2. I notice the rail for the window is in the way of the actuator. There seems to be just one screw, below the the three needed for the lock removal. Do you know if removing that rail will require another screw removal elsewhere?

Thanks, and in the spirit of your Guide, I am taking pictures also and will post them when I'm done.

Thanks!
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