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I've got manual windows. I think I can probably pick up the bits to make electric windows fairly cheaply - there are lots of wrecks around these days - but I'm not sure how badly I want the upgrade.

The GQs I've sat in with electric windows have noticeably less legroom, and it sort of bugs me. And I use the A/C almost constantly so I rarely open the windows. However, maybe I would change my habits if I had electric ones!

What do you reckon?

Jason

Winders are the only wat to go, or you could cut the doors down and remove the windows all together.

My passenger electric winder in the GQ just shit itself I think its going to hurt the wallet

This is the first car I have had with power windows and I like them

Shorty40 wrote:My passenger electric winder in the GQ just shit itself I think its going to hurt the wallet

This is the first car I have had with power windows and I like them

What's wrong with it? This shit is usually fixable.

Jason

chimpboy wrote:The GQs I've sat in with electric windows have noticeably less legroom, and it sort of bugs me.

What do you reckon?

Put the windows controls in the centre console and that will solve you're legroom problem in the front.

iwannabeapirate wrote:

chimpboy wrote:The GQs I've sat in with electric windows have noticeably less legroom, and it sort of bugs me.

What do you reckon?

Put the windows controls in the centre console and that will solve you're legroom problem in the front.

Really..? I just assumed that the motor was in that lumpy bit as well...

Where does the motor live?

Jason

iwannabeapirate wrote:Put the windows controls in the centre console and that will solve you're legroom problem in the front.

I am just about to do this. What handles did you use on the doors?

Sounds like a good plan to get some space. What about holes in the door afterwards from removing those silly boxes?

i got electric in mine and i hate that the passenger side plays up all the time, it is hard to make it go up.

chimpboy wrote:Really..? I just assumed that the motor was in that lumpy bit as well...

Where does the motor live?

Jason

Your right, it does live in there, but maybe you could make a smaller box to go around it. And yeah, it pisses me off sometimes as well.

Yeah took mine apart today for another reason (speakers)

The motors hang out a bit but nowhere near as much as the lumps do.

Beastmavster wrote:Yeah took mine apart today for another reason (speakers)

OEM speakers are wonderful items.

Shorty40 wrote:My passenger electric winder in the GQ just shit itself I think its going to hurt the wallet

This is the first car I have had with power windows and I like them

you will find the switch on the drivers door will have dirty contacts if the drivers door his crook the left hand door switch wont work .
if you want to see if it's the motor the back one will fit the front door .
try some crc electra clean or even just plan old crc spray around and in under the rocker switchs as they fill up with dirt ect .
you can pull the switch apart but do it were you wont drop anything ,i spent a week trying to fix the left window just to find it was a dirty cntact in the drivers side switch the left switch didn't work but the drivers side did it has a contact to make power to the left switch when the right side is in the off position very frustrating

buger man wrote:

Shorty40 wrote:My passenger electric winder in the GQ just shit itself I think its going to hurt the wallet

This is the first car I have had with power windows and I like them

you will find the switch on the drivers door will have dirty contacts if the drivers door his crook the left hand door switch wont work .
if you want to see if it's the motor the back one will fit the front door .
try some crc electra clean or even just plan old crc spray around and in under the rocker switchs as they fill up with dirt ect .
you can pull the switch apart but do it were you wont drop anything ,i spent a week trying to fix the left window just to find it was a dirty cntact in the drivers side switch the left switch didn't work but the drivers side did it has a contact to make power to the left switch when the right side is in the off position very frustrating

Nah - the switches work and the motor spins but the window does not go up or down

Pulled it apart and (this is the technical bit ) the bit that spins inside the winder (metal splines) has stripped the plastic grooves. I have been told to replcae this bit. But everywhere I go says, I have to buy the complete window setup

Shorty40 wrote:

buger man wrote:

Shorty40 wrote:My passenger electric winder in the GQ just shit itself I think its going to hurt the wallet

This is the first car I have had with power windows and I like them

you will find the switch on the drivers door will have dirty contacts if the drivers door his crook the left hand door switch wont work .
if you want to see if it's the motor the back one will fit the front door .
try some crc electra clean or even just plan old crc spray around and in under the rocker switchs as they fill up with dirt ect .
you can pull the switch apart but do it were you wont drop anything ,i spent a week trying to fix the left window just to find it was a dirty cntact in the drivers side switch the left switch didn't work but the drivers side did it has a contact to make power to the left switch when the right side is in the off position very frustrating

Nah - the switches work and the motor spins but the window does not go up or down

Pulled it apart and (this is the technical bit ) the bit that spins inside the winder (metal splines) has stripped the plastic grooves. I have been told to replcae this bit. But everywhere I go says, I have to buy the complete window setup

I have one of those plastic spline things...somewhere....hey have you tried Nissan??? Wreckers generally have got nothin

the winder setup is $136.00 new from your nissan dealer

bogged wrote:

Beastmavster wrote:Yeah took mine apart today for another reason (speakers)

OEM speakers are wonderful items.

Nothing like a set of pioneer 6" splits in the doors with tweeters on top of the dash running off an amp

I have aftermarket electric windows, with all the controls in the centre console. They have little black blastic covers covering the holes in the door skin where the window winder was - doesnt look bad at all

And electric windows rock!

Sneaky wrote:I have aftermarket electric windows, with all the controls in the centre console. They have little black blastic covers covering the holes in the door skin where the window winder was - doesnt look bad at all

And electric windows rock!

How much and where from?

Jason

hottiemonster wrote:

bogged wrote:

Beastmavster wrote:Yeah took mine apart today for another reason (speakers)

OEM speakers are wonderful items.

Nothing like a set of pioneer 6" splits in the doors with tweeters on top of the dash running off an amp

6" in doors adn 6" in rear barn doors. They're slightly underpowered for the amp (but still rated 5 times what the factory ones were) but that's cool I'm not THAT hugely into my stereo in the car. I think 120W rms should be enough.

One good thing about that pod for the windows is it means the por for the big front speakers isnt an issue