2003 Cooper Driver window failure, Help

[Olly RM]

Ok, I've made too many posts with problems. I know!

Anyway, a new problem, went out the Mini on Wednesday morning and noticed the window didn't drop when I opened the door. I turned on and off but no joy. I then searched the issue and found the 2 major fixes. 1) disconnect battery for 10 min, 2) Hit the bloody thing.

I found 2 worked great. Once

So, now the hitting the door card trick is not working. Every time I press the window switch I can hear the regulator/solenoid clicking in the door. All fuses are fine etc. So I am thinking to pull the door card off and explore.

Now the reason for this post is, any idea what I am looking for and where I would find it?

Please help, I am aiming to do this over the weekend. It needs fixing or Em can't get into the works car park (ticket machine thingy)

TIA

An Aggrieved Olly.

[DarkMatter]

Does the central locking work on that door? Some 6 or 7 years ago we had a Mini One on which the windows stopped dropping when opening the door, and the central locking on that door also failed. As I recall fitting a new central locking solenoid for that door fixed the locking problem and the window.

[Olly RM]

The central locking is working with no issues at the moment. That's off the key fob, I've not tried the key in the lock though. I've just been on eBay looking for window mechanisms and found a new one at £90. I'm just wondering it its a short or loose connection?

Bugger!

[DarkMatter]

I'm sorry that it's so long ago that we had that problem I cannot be 100% certain which fault occurred first but I think that the electric window failed to work at all. I'd say that it must be worth checking all of the electrical connections first.

[fnm]

After the hitting above the lower speak approach stopped working for me I followed this guide with success http://www.mini2.com/forum/first-generation-faults...

[Olly RM]

Cheers, what I ended up doing as the hitting trick stopped working was to strip the door down.

I then did the following.

Strip the door card off, I cleaned both runners that the window sits on as they were gritty with dirt build up. After cleaning I opened the door fully so I had a good access, flick the lock over with a screw driver, so the door thinks its shut (this is important) then with the key turned to on position, hold down the window switch. Keep held dow, then do the hit trick at the motor area. The window then went Down! Clean the runner up the top and all over thoroughly. Then with window in lowest point so access to the runner guides I applied 'stay wet, chain lube' for cycle chains. Made sure there was a good amount on the runners, guides etc, so nice and slippy.

I am happy to say, it's perfect now. Utterly spot on. I am going to strip the doors down again as I am going to sound deaden them, so I will do this to the passenger side window too as a preventative.

If I get pics this time I will make a guide if you guys wanted?

Olly