Putting sound deadening inside the doors and this thing popped out of the rear passenger door when I got the panel off - I don't remember one on the drivers' side. Do I just stick it back in the door? Is it supposed to connect to something?


Thanks a lot!!

 

See that black tube that curves up inside the door on the left? That cable is supposed to run through that and the tube hooks onto the window regulator right where the cable is coming out from.

 

Ok! I put the snakey thing back inside the rubber hose but I wasn't sure how to attach the hose back to the fitting - ran the window a few times from the driver's seat and it worked great, came back to the door and it was out of the hose again. I tried to get the hose up over the metal lip and it didn't seem to want to cooperate - any ideas?

Then I tried the other rear door since I remembered an empty rubber hose - the window ran VERY slow until I heard a little click and it stopped - now I'm off to find a 30 amp fuse haha

 

One more thing - I can hold the end of the hose up against the metal fitting and run the window, but it's a challenge to hold the hose there against the force of the window closing.... should I put some kind of lube in there?? What's the purpose of this hose in the first place, just keeping the snake thing from getting caught on anything else?

 

I stuck the top of an RTV tube in there to widen it, then put a little heat on it with the heat gun. Got it all but 1/4" of the way up and working like a charm - thanks all!!!

 

Check on the spouse while you're there. Looks like they've fallen over and can't get up.

 

Haha she's the one putting the sound deadener in there with her little hands!! I couldn't cover 5% of one of those doors with my hands. She did great!

 

Sorry I never replied, I completely missed the notification email. Glad to hear you sorted it out, I would have suggested heat as you used.

The purpose of it is exactly that, to guide it away from anything else. I've had one on a VW T25/3 Transporter where the cable had gone through the soft wooden door card after rubbing through it enough times.

 

No worries! Yeah, makes sense that it's just a protective sleeve - man, that's something else to go through wood!! I suppose you do anything enough and something's gotta give. Great having all of mine do what they're supposed to again!