Good call, Shawn, about buying both regulators. I had my 323i e46 for 5 years, and replaced these two: front passenger and rear driver. No clue what happened before my ownership.
Campieri
Good call, Shawn, about buying both regulators. I had my 323i e46 for 5 years, and replaced these two: front passenger and rear driver. No clue what happened before my ownership.
Capo
Well. Now that I'm home and have talked to Colin I find out his brother was in the back seat...! Back to the dealer tomorrow.
Capo
ELECTR.WINDOW LIFTER REAR RI:513232 (51-35-8-212-100) is $88 at BMW of Alex (online) in case any wondered. :-)
Campieri
LOL ... Sorry I missed your face at that moment. Are you returning the front ones ?Originally Posted by ELCID86
Capo
:-/
I'll keep the right one as that window is worrying me. May replace it when I do the NB door cards. I need to see if the driver's side has already been done. For some reason I think the PO did it. Will check the paperwork.
Capo
So now that the rear is done. I'm thinking of doing the front one. The symptom is that it's sluggish/slow. Is that the regulator or perhaps the motor itself?
Big Earner
Well, mine clicks/shifts a couple times a little bit past halfway down and then is slow to come up sometimes stopping about an inch from the top. I press up again and it goes up. It is off and on though, sometimes it makes it up all the way at a decent speed which based upon my initial post on the topic awhile ago led Dane to express it was the regulator without hesitation.
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Sluggish = regulator. I had that problem when I bought my car and a new regulator fixed it. I also replaced both front regulators on another E46 in my family for the same reason with the same outcome.
The motor is set so that it slows down or stops if it encounters any resistance... Motor failures are fairly rare.
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Yes maybe out 6 regulators I 've replaced on 4 different bimmers I have never changed a motor.....its almost always the cable
sent by new technology DA
Capo
Good to know. Thanks guys. I have the two fronts in hand and need to replace them. Daniel? :-)
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