Dum-butt of the week award

[PolarisCobra]

...Goes to me for this week. We had A LOT of rain here just before Christmas, followed by a deep freeze overnight. Long story short, my truck is usually in the garage overnight, but I left it outside. Got up to single digit temps, got the garage cleared out, so I could move the truck inside and let it thaw. Started up no issue, had to tug on the door a bit because it was frozen shut.

My daughter came outside wanted to ask me a question, I tried to open the passenger window, which of course was frozen shut.

Once the truck thawed out, I found that the window had separated from the regulator inside the door when I tried to open it. So - It would not go all the way down, and when closing, it would try to go too high, and reverse.

Spent some time in You Tube, found a couple of videos that did a good job describing the process to remove the inside trim from the door, which it turns out is easy. Took it off, and found that the is a hole in the glass in the front and back, and a plastic clip that attached to the hole, the other end of the clip attaches to the rail that holds the window. Got the clip out, and verified that it was not broken (Lucky me).

I was able to reattach everything, and get it back together and working, so no harm done.

Lesson learned - Don't open the windows after a heavy rain and refreeze.

 

[ThunderMug95]

We’ve all had that momentary lapse of judgement!

 

[Zoe Saldana]

Wrong lesson ... don't be a hoarder so you can put your truck in the garage!

 

[PolarisCobra]

No hording here, at least this time. My daughter stayed over with her kids, and was planning to leave in the morning. Didn't want to put the grandkids into a frozen car, so we put hers in the garage for the night.

 

[Tom Williams]

Happened to me as well. Now the window goes very slowly and about halfway it stops and goes back down. Any clue on how to fix it?

 

[turkeybird56]

Another thing to remember. If weather gonna be bad, wet and probable freeze, if U have Power Mirrors, do not fold them in that night/day. Cause if U do, and you hit button to unfold mirrors, it may be frozen folded and you could take the risk of breaking the plastic gears that works that function.

ADDED: I did that "once", got lucky, did not break gears or fry motors. Big guy upstairs was being kind, LOL.

 

[Dean2]

Happened to me as well. Now the window goes very slowly and about halfway it stops and goes back down. Any clue on how to fix it?

Your issue is more likely drag from the window wipes. Take a fibre towel, spray silicone lube on it, use that to clean and wipe all the plastic/rubber and wipe edges that the window comes up through, with the window down. Once it is good and clean, spray some Silicone lube on them, window will go up and down slick as new.

TB - I turn off the auto fold mirrors on the Grand Cherokee for the winter. I was that car every 2 or 3 days to keep the salt off it. If you are out in the cold the mirrors, after auto folding when you park, have a bad habit of opening back up but not stopping at center, they rotate all the way to reverse fold. Unless you have someone to stop it at center with their hand, it will do that till you get it back in the garage and it thaws out. Breaking the plastic gears would be even worse.

 

[PolarisCobra]

Happened to me as well. Now the window goes very slowly and about halfway it stops and goes back down. Any clue on how to fix it?

Do a bit of searching on YouTube. There are a couple of videos that do a good job of showing the steps.

 

[Flip-er]

...Goes to me for this week. We had A LOT of rain here just before Christmas, followed by a deep freeze overnight. Long story short, my truck is usually in the garage overnight, but I left it outside. Got up to single digit temps, got the garage cleared out, so I could move the truck inside and let it thaw. Started up no issue, had to tug on the door a bit because it was frozen shut.

My daughter came outside wanted to ask me a question, I tried to open the passenger window, which of course was frozen shut.

Once the truck thawed out, I found that the window had separated from the regulator inside the door when I tried to open it. So - It would not go all the way down, and when closing, it would try to go too high, and reverse.

Spent some time in You Tube, found a couple of videos that did a good job describing the process to remove the inside trim from the door, which it turns out is easy. Took it off, and found that the is a hole in the glass in the front and back, and a plastic clip that attached to the hole, the other end of the clip attaches to the rail that holds the window. Got the clip out, and verified that it was not broken (Lucky me).

I was able to reattach everything, and get it back together and working, so no harm done.

Lesson learned - Don't open the windows after a heavy rain and refreeze.

PolarisCobra​

You may have gotten the the award​

BUT​

I have the T-Shirt forthat stunt​

I am sure alot if us have done this.​

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[PolarisCobra]

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