Removing rear window regulator assy. Help!

[Bernie Benz]

This, the RR, is the dog’s window so gets a little more use than the LR. 
But I’ve had few mechanical window problems with the 3 type 44 chassis Audis that I’ve owned.
Many more window switch contact problems in the earlier cars.
Motto: DFWAB!
Bernie

On Aug 26, 2013, at 4:55 AM, Mike Sylvester wrote:

> My entire Audi experience started with repairing a regulator on a '85
> 5k.
> I worked in a auto body shop doing odd jobs.  The owner had disassembled
> the regulator and I was watching him struggling to put it back together.
> He got up to answer the phone and I reassembled it before he got back.
> He said "OK, you're the window guy now".
> 
> I find it amazing that this is the first P/W regulator repair that
> Bernie has had to address.
> I know he is an outlier in many aspects, but this is just weird.
> Bernie, do you live in a climate that you rarely open the windows?
> 
> Mike
> 
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: Removing rear window regulator assy. Help!
>> From: Bernie Benz <b.benz at charter.net>
>> Date: Sat, August 24, 2013 6:58 pm
>> To: Tony Hoffman <auditony at gmail.com>
>> Cc: "200q20v at audifans.com list" <200q20v at audifans.com>
>> 
>> 
>> Well as suggested, I removed the whole inner window frame (PITA!) and the regulator. The tab crimped to the cable had broken out of the lifter pivot, a crimped over die casting which can not be removed from its guide rail. Crappy design! I was able to get the tab back into its place in the lifter and “wired” it in place with a piece of bare #14 cu wire, anchoring each end around either end of the stop adjusting screw, such that it didn’t interfere with the pivot pin. Lubed, works fine now. Will it last another 250K? Maybe, if I don’t hold static motor torque on the closed window. 
>> Regards, Bernie
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks Tony,
>> I was hoping to do it thru the hole in the inner door assy.
>> I wonder if that retaining clip is really necessary?
>> Must be the same to replace the glass.
>> Thanks again!
>> Bernie
>> 
>> On Aug 22, 2013, at 4:22 PM, Tony Hoffman wrote:
>> 
>>> Pull the inner door assembly from the outer skin, then you will see the retaining clip holding the glass in place. This is done iwht the four 8mm (13mm head) bolts, two facin the interior of the car at the bottom, two at the top facing forward and backward. There are shims in place as well, you may want to mark them for position if your memory is like mine :(
>>> 
>>> Tony
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Bernie Benz <b.benz at charter.net> wrote:
>>> Apparently the “tab“ attaching the cable to the “lifter pivot“ (the part that slides up and down the guide rail) moving the glass via a pivot pin thru the plastic glass attached bottom piece, is broken.
>>> 
>>> Further, apparently this lifter pivot pin has an E-ring keeping it in the glass plastic piece. If so,(?) visible only with a small inspection mirror, how does one remove the ring to free the regulator assy from the glass? No mention in Bentley! Please tell me that there is no retaining ring on the pin!
>>> 
>>> Thanks guys!
>>> Bernie
>> 
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