Miata Mailing List: August 1992, Message #39
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Subject: Window problems (was: Suspension and Other Problems - Warantee Repairs)
   Date: (none)

   Date: 	Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:13:04 -0400
   From: Eric Fancher <75230.1445@CompuServe.COM>

   On another note since you asked, however,  I have had the window lifts in both
   doors replaced under warranty in both my 90 Red B and recently in my 91 BRG.  
   I noticed that when the window was rolling up or down, at the half way point 
   it made a clunk sound with a slight but noticable shift in the glass.  I 
   returned it to the dealer thinking they only needed adjustment and they 
   replaced the lift under warranty.  I asked in 90 if this was a problem since 
   both came out of adjustment at the same time to which they said no.  When the 
   same thing happened in my 91, I asked again and got the same response.

   I have talked to other owners and no one else has reported the problem so 
   either I am too sensitive to the sounds my car makes or I got the only two 
   cars with this problem.  Once replaced, no problem.

I just had two problems in a very short span of time, which might be
coincidentally rather than causally related.

1. Driving long distance on a hot, humid, RAINY night, water started
squirting onto the passenger side floor.  Since it was dark, and I was
zooming along in the left hand lane of a major highway, I couldn't tell
whether the water was rainwater getting in from the outside or something
else.  A few days later it happened again in humid (but not rainy)
daylight, while I had the A/C running.  It was the A/C leaking.  I
mentioned this to my father, and he said the same thing happened to him
on his 323.  Is this a common Mazda problem?

2. My windows have been getting steadily slightly stickier over the past
year.  The day after the water venting incident, I parked my car in a
garage with the windows cracked open about an inch so things could dry
out a little.  When I got back, they were hard to crank up to fully
closed, and then impossible to get down past the one inch mark.  Could
there be a connection between this and all the somewhat damp atmosphere?

I took the car in for my 15K servicing the next day, and they fixed the
A/C problem, and ordered "window regulators" to fix the windows.  But
until they come in I have to drive around with the windows up, and since
we all know how de classe it is to have the top down and the windows up,
I suffer in confinement.

--Skef