Eleccy windows?

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Cheers for that Titus , looks easy enough and the door card looks tidy afterwards 8)
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Thanks,

very help full pictures,

How long did it take, looks like an easy job, is it?

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does this leave room to fit central locking kit too?
think if im going to run wires about may as well go mad and bring it into the 21st century :idea:

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My kit arrived this morning.....those install pictures are great thanks.
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Sorry for the late response - been away on business.

I fitted the window kit and a central locking system at the same time.

The first door took the longest (about 3 hours), the second door I finished in under two hours.

There is plenty of room for the central locking, the motors are install underneath the lock itself.

It is not a hard job, but experience of working in small holes is an advantage.

My central locking has suddenly packed up - blast.
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My kit has just come , so as soon as i feel up to it ,i'll be fitting them
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One thing I did forget to mention.

The white plastic adaptors that go between the driving bit and the original winder mechanism are supposed to be locked together with a small self tapping screw.

I still have not got round to doing that yet.

I cannot remember why I did not fit it, I think it was peeing me off and kept falling out.
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I read that in the so called instructions :lol:
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cheers, im off to ebay to purchase them then as my lowering springs still havent arrived from germany :cry:

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Ok i've managed to fit the passengers easy enough , but it started to hail :roll: so had to pack it up , :lol:
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All in , and working , if i was to do it again , i'd start with the the drivers door, much easier to tread 3 wires than 6 , talking of which i used the vent tunnel to thread the wires from side to side :D

they arent the fastest in the world and my passenger one is slooowwwwww ,but thats mainly due to the lack of grease in the pipe work , which i will sort out at the weekend .. all in all quite an easy mod and well worth it 8)
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I've had a set for about 6 months now but was put off my fitting them myself, I think i'll have a go now.

Onion - any pics from your install

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sorry , didnt take any , but same as tittus , one thing i did have a wee problem with was the little bolts that are on the motor end of the unit , no way were they long enough to take the fixing bracket and the motor , so i used longer bolts ,
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the vent tunnel to thread the wires from side to side
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I wasn't very happy about the cable layout. I had the Window loom and the Central locking bound with spiwrap and fed through a hole that I bored in the door.

Then I took your route and used the vent tunnel, no need to drill any holes.

I found an old airbed foot pump and used the hose off it to house the cabling.

The hose is a ribbed affair of about 1" dia. It looks the business now and I have spare room for the leccy mirror looms.

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i have now fitted these also.

electric windows,
central locking
alarm with remote for central locking

again running the wiring was the hardest part, I took the dash out to do a neat job, dash out, electrics in a tested and dash back in in a day.

I'm happy with the job. Now all i need to do is try come up with a solution for the sliding door!!

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