WINDOWS : Friendly service reminder!

[biju]

Just a friendly reminder to lube up your window tracks with silicone spray to prevent binding. I just did mine, and thought I'd remind you all also...

-biju.

[Y33TREKker]

Is there any particular manufacturer, brand, etc, of silicone spray that you've tried and would recommend?

[Techy-D]

I've read some things before, but to be clear... (this might seem like I wasn't paying attention) You guys are talking about spraying a lubricant where the glass travels up and down in the rear part of the window frame? Not a sliding track that is down inside the door. Did I get it correct?

[Mark B]

I have the silicone spray.
Can someone tell me the best way to lube the tracks

[Chopper]

With the windows up, jam the little red straw toward what you invision to be the lower corner of the glass. When you bump into the metal track (an inch or so) spray away... don't spray like you're paying for it. Soak it good. Repeat for the rear track. Put the window down and do the slots the glass rides in. Soak it good. Run the window up and down a few times. Smile at improved operation. Have a beer to celebrate just how skilled and clever you are. Have a beer to celebrate the first beer. Repeat the two final steps as many times as necessary, and as often as possible.

[kpaske]

Hey Chopper, are those steps supposed to be executed in order? I keep celebrating, but my darn windows still ain't working!

[nfpgasmask]

CRC Heavy Duty Silicone Lube



3 or 4 bucks at Wal*mart. I use it everytime I wash my baby.

Bart

Is there any particular manufacturer, brand, etc, of silicone spray that you've tried and would recommend?

[biju]

Any quality silicone spray will do. I personally use Valvoline

I do it monthly as not to gum up the bottom of the inside of my door (it will leak out onto your cladding if you use too much). I do it with the windows down, using the red straw to shoot the spray up and down the tracks (rubber insert/track). Immediately rolling the windows up and down a few times to make sure it smears all over...

-biju.

[CrnCnn]

Unfortunately, the previous owner was not aware of this and the guides on the back part of my doors is cracked and will fold when I roll up the window, so I have to press it out and help it up. Do they make Viagra for window guides?

[Kenny]

Unfortunately, the previous owner was not aware of this and the guides on the back part of my doors is cracked and will fold when I roll up the window, so I have to press it out and help it up. Do they make Viagra for window guides?

Do a search. I think I saw some one with a similar problem if I understand it right, and they CAREFULLY bent the metal track rail a tad (re-aimed the upward direction of the window a bit outward - I think), so when the window went up it stopped sliding out of the track. Good Luck.




RE: Silicone spray, man does it ever work. I've tried various goop and greases and they just make it worse after a day or so, dust starts to gum it up... The product needs to be liquid and safe on rubber like silicone spray...

But there's gotta be a better way... We should be able to pull out the rubber slide and line it with something permanent, something solid like wax paper, but durable... It's the rubber-window edge contact that needs a "friction-reduction". hmmm......

[IndianaVX]

crn,
hey, you probably need to do the washer trick also with your windows. that trick alone sped up my windows, and stopped the window from popping out.
use the search on window fixes, and you will find it.

david


so I have to press it out and help it up.

[CrnCnn]

crn,
hey, you probably need to do the washer trick also with your windows. that trick alone sped up my windows, and stopped the window from popping out.
use the search on window fixes, and you will find it.

david


so I have to press it out and help it up.

Thank you, I will check it out.

Mucho apreciato...

[biju]

It's soooo nice outside in Denver today (63 degrees!). Lubed up my windows today... they thanked me for it.

-biju.

[Chopper]

washed and waxed the VX today...read this thread, and went out and juiced the trax; thanx for the reminder. Now if we can put this on a timed loop, so it pops up every three weeks or so.

[biju]

(bump)

LUBE!

-biju.