rear passenger window, it was only a matter of time

[mitachu]

I guess it had to happen one day.

Yesterday I drove round a bit with all the windows down and when I parked up, I found that the rear passenger window was stuck down. Nothing would get it up (so to speak). Took it to a local car mods garage who escalated it to their electrical bloke who, without looking at it, said that it would most likely be the motor with water ingress conking out and wrecking a wiring loom or something like that. Basically, I'm looking at an expensive repair at a Renault dealer.

I'm sure I've come across this before on this board.... Anyone know what I'm referring to, and have a recommendation on anything I can do to avoid coughing up a few hundred quid? At the moment the car's got a really smart looking (honestly!) grey vinyl coating over the window so I can worry less about it raining, but obv I need this looking at by a company that is both reputable and capable of doing the job.

If anyone has any pointers on companies I can approach, that'd be sweet. I'm near J26 of the M1, which is Nottingham/Derby. WIlling to travel out to meet anyone on here who's in the roughish area and willing to take a look.

Cheers in advance, people!!

[ChrisM]

Do it Yourself, its around 3/4 hours work depending on how good you are with a spanner.
There is a giude on here some where or use to be its a common failure possibly the control module on top of the motor.
Best way to get to know your car , search ebay for a rear reg try some of the breaking megane adds. Mine has gone through 3 now all passenger side but mine seems to like to chew cables!
Fed up with changing it now so just bolted the glass in place now and the roof closes onto it.joys of having a convertable AND a renault.

[mitachu]

I wouldn't mind giving it a shot but just don't feel confident about (a) getting the right part, and (b) installing it myself without blowing up the car or making the issue worse

Daft question, but is the motor the same thing as the regulator?

[mitachu]

Found this online, https://www.renaultwindow.co.uk/

Looking at a refurb unit I'm faced with 160 inc VAT and delivery. Anyone ever used these before?

[ChrisM]

Never used one of these cubes but mine isn't blowing control but cable chewing. I think therw is a utube video on rear quter lite removal.
Basically off top of head.
Roof down.
Remove rear seat base
Remove rear backrest there are two sliding panels next to head rest under there r a torx bolt
Once these r out gives you access to side panel remove those silly pop out clips you can if u want leave the front seat belt attached and push the panel out of the way.
Remove seal around the window there r 3plastic pins on the door jamb lever them out carefully and lift seal away .
Undo the plug on the motor.
There are two 10mm bolts on the inside under the now removed seal and one 10mm inside you cant miss it.
Once all removed the glass and regulator will come out as one.
Another two 10mm bolts will separate the glass from the regulator.
Reassemble is same as remove apart from once the reg is in and pluged in seal back on but before you put the inner panel back one look at the rear quater you will see two I think large rubber gromets. Remove them you will c inside the holes the two 10mm bolts used to attach glass to reg. Now put roof back on send the window slacken off these two bolts and adjust the rear quarter glass for a perfect fit.
Drop roof reasemble rest of car.
Sounds quite indepth but its not that bad find the utube video .
What I have done is to remove cables from the motor so it turns but doesn't operate the lifter plug it back in to fool the roof ecu then used pushed the glass up and under the mount through the two lifter slots but a nut and bolt glass now cant go down so car is secure
If you r buying a used reg make sure its for a meg two cc they are differant to saloons the mk1 convertable looks the same bit it isn't the meg cc is a 6 pin comfort motor..
Windows and megs are a regular subject once you get into them yourself it will save you a fair bit of cash. Bit like that stupid handbreak. Easily replacable but search saloon/estate cars they are cheaper yet the same item, if it sticks on there is a plastic panel inside the lever where it goes into the armrest on driver side hook this out with a small screwdriver and u will see a thin metal rod lift handle slightly and move rod forward with finger it release the ratchet. To apply hand brake simply pull it up again. Drove mine for four months like this again a regular issue heard alsorts of horror stories including cuttinf brake cables under the car when all needs doing is that panel gets leverd out and the brake can be released easily with your fingers.
Have fun.... the suns coming out.
Oh yes if it leaks from roof seal or squeks go to vw dealer as for crytox they use it on the moblie shower known as eos works a treat. Cost around £35 but worth it smear on roof seal BUT leave roof down for a few hours for the rubber to plump up that's where most go wrong they treat and shut roof u should treat and leave it off and hey presto leaks n squeeks gone.
Has you fuel cap stuck yet thats another meg favorite usually on the pumps with an empty tank and you end up pulling the painted cover off in a temper theee is a small lever on the motor . Open boot on flap side put hand on slot where boot opens for roof fell around in there u will feel the solenoid onto there is a lever. Pull it back it releases the locking pin and flap opens.
Simple when u know how.

[sidecar1000]

There is a helpful video on YouTube check that out, how to replace replace back passenger window???

[Hacksawcats]

Bit late posting this but how old is the car? if it's ten years or less, Renault have a sort of recall for the problem and I think they pay 75% of the costs! Ha mine done last year

[mitachu]

Thanks for the replies.

As it turns out, I ended up getting one of the refurb TEMIC modules from www.renaultwindow.co.uk which cost £129 + VAT. That was fitted by a local shop for 45 quid and the car's back to normal now. I was tempted to try the install myself but I've got nowhere under cover to do it and I didn't trust the weather! I've kept the broken module for sending back to the same place for repair in advance of the same thing happening again, I think both rear modules are identical. The repair costs £20.

I found that YouTube video. Really informative!