Feeling pleased with myself on the 1.6. Got into the door, got the trim panel and inner panel off nicely. Untangled the window cable birds nest and figured out where everything was supposed to go, worked out
how to rethread the cables if need be and identified one broken plastic bracket and missing metal bracket. Chucked out all the bits of wood and old cardboard from the inside of the door where previous owners have looked and not fixed it. Jammed up the window in place properly with lolly sticks until we can get new cables and brackets or the whole lot and do the job properly. Put it all back together with no odd screws left over, just one missing that I found in the long grass with a magnet. Not repaired but confidence boosted, maybe even enough to tackle the water
problem with the same door in the TDi.
Just one snag, couldn't work out
how to get the inside lock button back in but will figure that one out when we finish the job properly. It just pinged off so I didn't get a chance to look at how it goes in, oops!
Other half kept looking over my shoulder grumbling how complicated it looked and saying "back in the day" a lot but I say it's easy and clever, no more pesky plastic sheeting that never sticks back on, no more scissor winder mechanisms, and a motor that sits on the outside of a metal plate for easy changing, I'm all for it. And I have to keep reminding him about the oil filter and the mess we used to get into changing them!
