Hi everybody
Has anybody tried to renovate the motor for the electric window ?
Or is the easiest to by a new ?
/Henrik
The window motor is made by Rockwell (it has their logo on it) who made window motors for lots of cars. I have seen this same motor fitted to many cars including various Renault and Mercedes of a similar age. I don't think you can get the motor easily anymore, but there are probably a lot of second hand ones around.
Often the reason the motors go slow or stop is the bottom bearing bush seizes on the armature shaft. You can often dismantle the motor, clean the bush and lubricate it and get the motor working again. I have done this a number of times. Why does it seize? If you check the motor it has two holes in the casing near the bottom (to let water out) and the upper hole should have a plastic plug in it. When the motor is fitted the other way up, the plug should be moved from one hole to the other so the open hole is always at the bottom. Sometimes the plug is at the bottom and so the motor fills with water...
When I saw the title of this thread and read the first posting it was about the window motors. After I posted my reply I see someone has 'hi-jacked the thread and changed the thread. I wish people wouldn't do that. Please start another thread if you want to talk about something different...
Regarding the central locking, yes all 1983 cars which had factory fitted 'central' locking, only had a master control on the drivers door and a slave on the passenger door. Normally both front doors would have master units and if you fit a third party locking system this is what you fit - a master on both doors so no matter which you operate it operates the other side. As for wiring, it has to be connected to the permanent 'live' circuit non-fused - not much point if it blows a fuse and then won't operate because the key system has broken or seized, or especially if you have removed the manual key system. (yes I have seen a Murena with no door manual key locks and only electric locking and a remote ultra-sonic activator).
One final warning, if you go to remote activation then make sure your key locks are cleaned, adjusted and well greased, because once you start using remote activation it could be years before you ever use the locks again. And if the remote fails you want to know that the manual key locks will still work to get you in!
Roy