Miata Mailing List: May 1994, Message #17
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   From: BUCKINGHAM@LANDO.HNS.COM
Subject: electric windows
   Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 09:27:52 -0400

	I remember a thread some time ago discussing manual v. electric 
windows and problems with manual window winders. At the time someone made the 
comment that one advantage of electric windows was that they appear to 
go wrong less often. Well, it happened. On Friday my driver's side electric
window broke. Murphy's law told me that something was bound to wrong 
soon since my warranty ran out on April 2nd. Hoping it was something 
simple, I took the door panel off and took the window and the 
motor/slider mechanism out. At first I thought just a cable stop had 
been pulled off, but later discovered that the cable was all chewed up 
inside the motor assembly. Which one happened first I don't know. So now 
I'm about to phone the local dealers to see how much a new motor/cable 
assembly is (perhaps that extended warranty might have been a good 
idea). Has anyone else had problems with electric windows??


Paul Buckingham 
Germantown, Md
Silver '91 'B'