Today we braved the chilly winds to do a little DIY repair to my car. Back in December my driver's side window started to misbehave. Suddenly it started making horrible grinding noises when I would try to roll down my window. I avoided Drive-Thrus and other such activities that involved window-rolling, until our trip to Virginia- when I cracked my window just an inch to call Jesse's attention to my moving of the car during a pit stop at a gas station. It was at this very moment that my window decided it was done. Finished. Not gonna budge. So we did as any other classy people would do, duck-taped it shut, and continued on! When we returned from our trip, Jesse took apart the door and found the culprit. A little plastic spool inside the door has a cable wound around it, which controls the movement of the window up and down. Somehow my cable had jumped off the spool and became a mangled mess.
What would someone charge to fix something like this, you might ask? About 200 bucks. (Yikes!) Turns out you can't just replace the spool and cable. You must replace the entire window regulator. And what does that look like?
My wonderful, savvy, internet-deal-finding husband found the window regulator pictured above for only $60. That's $140 saved, my friend. We He installed it today and I am so excited to have my window moving again! It turned into a pretty big job with lots of wires, screws, and connections being removed and replaced in the process. Here's my Mr. Fix-it in action:
There is still a lot of duck tape residue left behind on my window, but that will have to wait until another (warmer) day!
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