The wife drives a 2007 Altea 1.9TDi Sport. We've had it from new and the window cables in both front doors broke withing 3 months and were replaced under warranty.
We're now several years down the line and pulling into a car park last week the drivers door window went down but wouldn't go back up again. To make matters worse this was 30 miles from home and it was pouring with rain.
As my better half needs the car this week for work I bought a whole new regulator from Euro Car Parts for £91.99.
I called in at 5 local garages and none of them could even look at it for the best part of a week (post Christmas rush and all that). One garage even said they wouldn't do the job using the part I'd already got as it would invalidate any warranty.
I can see where he was coming from but he then said any parts he ordered would have come from Euro anyway.
Armed with a small set of star sockets and some basic tools including (importantly) a plastic cycle tyre lever for popping the trim clips I set to stripping off the door card....
Within two hours I had the door apart and the culprit was out....(broken cable top left)
When the cable snapped it became tangled up around the wheel that locates onto the motor...
As previously suggested on here I did a few dry runs up and down before tightening the top bolts on the vertical runners. The bottom two bolts only go in place after the door card has been refitted which made the job somewhat tricky as the runners swing into the void inside the door. With the glass half way down to
help alignment and bit of pulling, I finally managed.
I'm happy to report that all is now working and with the £100+ saved by doing it myself a table has now been booked to celebrate.