Jonathan came home from work one day and told me that something was wrong with the Camry. He said that the windows were covered in dew in the morning, so he rolled down all the windows on the car. The back passenger window rolled down and then "popped"; the window was not rolling back up. When Jonathan got to work he had one of his co-workers help try and get the window working again, but they couldn't. He taped the window up with packing tape as a temporary fix.
I took the Camry over to Karl and Audrey's place Saturday to see if Karl could take a look at it since Dad was just coming back from Paris. We took the door panel off to find that the scissor system that operates the window have partly broke.
This is the part that broke. The motor worked but the bolt used as the fulcrum of the system had broke and basically corroded. The bottom picture is the bolt that had broke. Notice that the bolt use to have teeth. The "teeth" broke off, half still on the bolt and half on the system. Unfortunately the
Karl called around to O'Reilly's and Auto Zone with no luck. We took a 30 minute drive to Deer Park to Advanced Auto Parts who had the replacement system. Total cost for parts: $112.04.
We got back home then started to reassemble the door. We ran into a bit of trouble trying to figure out how to put the scissor system back into the door, but Karl eventually figured it out. I was the ignition girl....turning on the ignition and checking to see if the window motor works.
Once we got the system back in the door, it was cake from there. We put all the screws and bolts back together....even had to go hunting for a screw that got lost in the grass!
It only took about 3-4 hours to fix, but a big THANK YOU and shout out to big bro Karly-boy!!
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