Sorry no photos today, but I had to remove (almost) all my everyday carry, and very carefully climb up the driver’s side. I had to observe my weight distribution as well, not looking to break the sunroof or the windshield obviously.
I only brought one of my EDC tools, my NexTool card tool. That was enough to loosen up the antenna and unscrew it the rest of the way by hand.
That’s not the problem, that’s his temporary solution.
You know how modern vehicles won’t let the rear windows down below ~33%? Child Safety, and rightly so…
Someone rode rear driver side and forced the window down, like a fucking idiot.
Wat only like some cars have that. And it’s not for kid saftey. It’s bad design. If your kid is going to fall out of the car why the fuck are they not buckled in lol.
Yeah, it’s usually because something like the rear wheel well obstructs the window from being able to roll down any further.
Probably just fucked the regulator. They aren’t hard to change.
This one is unfortunately hard to change. To start, gotta get the window up to start unbolting shit. Well shit don’t work, can’t get the window up.
So, with no way to get the window up without breaking it, I’m hands-off on this situation…
Door panel should pop off easy enough so you can access the window scissor
That doesn’t matter when the glass is blocking access to the bolt for proper disassembly.
What do, break glass?
Any door trim bolts won’t be going in the glass zone. Once the trim is off you’ll have some access points to try to bring window back into position.
Oh, to be clear, the main bolt in question is not a door panel trim bolt or screw. It’s a main bolt for the window regulator, which sits behind the fallen window…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2IO1attnFQ
That’s not the problem, the problem is I have to lift the glass to access the bolts…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2IO1attnFQ
How do lift the glass out of the door?
Nobody ever covers fun shit like that…
Have you tried one of the cheap suction cup handles from harbor freight? Might be able to lift it high enough to grab it from the top.
How would I even grab it, even with said sort of tool?
The glass is indeed totally intact, but also totally fallen down in the door, nothing accessible to even get a suction cup onto…
Hell, where I am with it, I think the only viable option is somewhere between duct tape and wax paper, gotta figure out how to grip and pull the glass up in less than 2 millimeters of a gap…
I would try to jimmy the window up first. Stick a couple pieces of duck tape to it and give it a yank up while hitting the window up button. If that fails, you’ll probably have to remove enough of that inner panel to reach in with some dykes and nip the cable (you’re replacing it anyways). But most likely they just broke the plastic retainer and it can be pulled up.
Okay, awake and sober now LOL!
Anyways, I’m totally with you on lift it with duct tape, but hell, how do I even get the duct tape on the glass? Its totally fallen in, I might be lucky if I got a ~2-3 millimeter gap…
These ideas are a bit out of reach, though I get ya…
He’s paralyzed on his right side for almost a year now, he doesn’t drive anymore ☹️
Is there a long tool with a hook you can slid down from the glass opening and pull window up? Like the tools for unlocking the door through the glass seal?