130mph= Broken window?

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Oct 30, 2007 | 02:52 AM

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rmcelwee

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Originally Posted by Bryceness

Get some white lithium spray grease, take off your door panels, and spray the ACTUAL window tracks (where the rollers roll). This'll make your window operation as smooth as butter and you'll impress the drive-through lady with the speed at which your window rolls down lol.

http://www.miata.net/garage/lubricating_windows.html

My original '91 Miata had sticky windows. I spent an hour ripping the doors apart to do this and it didn't help at all. It ended up being a 5 second silicon spray fix (see above).

Oct 30, 2007 | 06:04 AM

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thanks for all the advice from all of you, I wasnt realy looking for advice but ****, free advice

I was gonna try lubing up things in there, but the only window I have ever fixed were honda gear type window so thanks for the pointers on where to lube

i know...

its just that beer makes me type bad

Oct 30, 2007 | 12:41 PM

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uh. thanks foor the reminder. my driver side crank window is becoming hard as hell to roll down. figure it's the old grease getting hard from mixing with dirt...

Oct 30, 2007 | 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by mazda/nissan

i had my driver side window go down but not come back up the other day, i was afraid that i would have to start digging into the door, but checked the switch in the console first. Some black charring or something had deposited on the electrodes and when cleaned off works like a champ. but for you i'd make sure its all still on the rails first

what are the chances I'll break the old brittle plastic when I try this on mine?

Oct 30, 2007 | 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by TonyC

uh. thanks foor the reminder. my driver side crank window is becoming hard as hell to roll down. figure it's the old grease getting hard from mixing with dirt...

usually manual regulators aren't greased, but I never pulled the miatas apart.
the ones I've seen have a brush inside the coil to keep it clean.

Oct 30, 2007 | 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by TonyC

uh. thanks foor the reminder. my driver side crank window is becoming hard as hell to roll down. figure it's the old grease getting hard from mixing with dirt...

mine got harder to roll down, then it got easy to roll down again, then one day I rolled it up and now it's stuck. I assume the regulator is bad, but I've been to lazy to f with it.

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