Messed up power window wire

[Preston Brown <pbrown@econ.yale.edu>]

OK, I decided to do some work on the car today.  Big mistake.  The 
Audi-gods were frowning on New Haven, CT it seems.

The driver's side window had been making a "clunking" noise when 
it was rolled up from being all the way down.  I took the entire 
door apart to get a look at the power-window regulator.  Taking 
the whole door apart was a lesson/exercise in itself.  They 
certainly didn't make much of the process "user friendly".  That 
sucker was designed to go together, not come apart.

The power-window regulator (at least for my 5000CST, 86) is 
attached to the door with three bolts.  These are weird bolts.  
They have a metal shaft but then the heads are made of rubber - to 
absorb vibration/shock, I suppose.  One of the bolts had 
BROKEN...the rubber simply split.  Because of this, the regulator 
had more play than it was supposed to, and when the window was 
raised from being all the way down, the regulator moved and 
actually slammed into the window with quite a bit of force.  

OK so I decide to FIX it!!!  Well, I don't have any of these funky 
bolts so crazy glue, right?  I took the door apart MORE to get at 
the regulator, and I guess in the process  I royally screwed 
things up.  The wire which runs through the regulator and brings 
the window down and up already had some slack in it (more than 
should be I think) and somehow it came off the blue pully-like 
contraption at the top which guided it.  SH*T!!!!  It took me like 
45 minutes to get it back on the track, and then with one 
open/shut the thing was off again.  To make matters worse, of 
course the crazy glue didn't hold.  

So I managed to get the window up and get the door back together.  
What a nightmare.  The window is more or less unusable right now 
because the wire is not on the "track" and is jamming up pretty 
good.  I have no idea how to take up the slack in the wire or 
adjust the regulator or anything.  The Bentley is unhelpful.  Is 
this something that anyone can give me a hand with?  Obviously, I 
have to get the window fixed, but this thing is just screaming 
HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS OF LABOR if I get it done somewhere, vs. doing 
it myself.  PLEASE tell me that I'm not as screwed as I think I 
am.  My girlfriend is hopping mad...She drives the car even more 
than I do.

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 -Preston Brown
  preston.brown@yale.edu