Sound like you are planning on doing it several times
I hope the GREEN-THING will last forever and am pretty confident that the 25-years old slider I used on the other window will last another 20 years. Evidently at the turn on the Century MB got supplies of cheap plastic and the design that worked fine a generation ago is not lasting now.
Having all-metal motorhome I own 4 rivet guns and several boxes of rivets, so drilling them out is fine with me. If someone has to buy the tool, using sheet-metal screws might work for him.
I own a couple of rivet guns, but drilling and popping rivets is nowhere near as easy as turning out a couple of screws. I keep reading about the guys who've replaced two or three and while the new rivets go in really easy, they're always more trouble to get out.
At any rate, glad you found this nice little workaround. Nice to have you on "Team Green", too (an old Kawasaki reference...).
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I have just one last refection. If in fact Autohaouse AZ is selling thousands of those sliders and as lot of members reported, most of the shops charge $400-500 for repairing the regulator, is it possible that the shops charge their customers that amount of money for 1hr labor/$7 material cost job?
Did we just discover industry secret?
I just rebuilt my broken regulator using the green replacement from Autohauz. Pretty easy retrofit for people who are somewhat handy. Might be a bit much for someone who has never tried work like this before but for $7 its hard not to try. Took less then an hour to do the whole job. Also just for good measure I added some 5 minute epoxy between the old metal bracket and the new green plastic piece in addition to the rivet of course. Hopefully this will help keep some of the tension off those little tiny plastic fingers that are prone to breaking.
This is fantastic! Thanks. My windows are suddenly dropping like flies. Both windows on the drivers side went out within the last few weeks.
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I have mine left rear broke one years ago when I try to express it down several times on the E320/2001 wagon. But the driver side on my S500/2000 has broke twice in last 9 years of usage. One of the trick it may help you guys to safe the bracket is the open your window just slowly but not using the express feature. sometimes,the seals of the window will be tighter to the glass depends on the outside temperature or dirts trapped between the glass and the seal. The bracket is always broken at the lowest position when it was depressed hardest. So if you avoid to open the window completely down it will reduced the pressure on the plastic slider. If you really need to open the window in its lowest position, must depressed the down switch slowly so you can stop right at the lowest position.
Mine failed as I closed the window, without it having been full-open before that. I think there really isn't a pattern to this, other than 'plastic part fails too easily'.
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