Disco 2 Driver's window problem

Charlie Charles · Jun 25, 2021

Hi Folks,

When I bought my Disco I noticed the drivers window struggling to go up. Not long after, it gave up the ghost. I fitted a new motor today and it works again but it's still struggling. It goes down quickly and smoothly but the motor seems intermittently under strain when trying to close. I can't see or hear any reason why this is happening. The only thing that may be a bit odd is that the inner door skin slighly bulges as the window is fully open and again when it's fully closed.

Any advice would be much appreciated. Have a great weekend

Landmark2 · Jun 27, 2021

Hi Charlie,
The window regulators are a known problem - the nylon wheel breaks. Door card off job I'm affraid. Easy enough to replace.

https://www.roverparts.com/resources/videos/repair-window-regulator-motor-discovery-ii/
Griff

Nichol71 · Jun 27, 2021

I did the same with mine. An easy fix once you've gained access

yfo866 · Jul 10, 2021

Sligtly off topic, but do all D2s have one touch lower and raising front windows? Mine is a converted Commercial and i have to hold my finger on the button. I am coping reasonably well with the shame

discool · Jul 10, 2021

yfo866 said:
Sligtly off topic, but do all D2s have one touch lower and raising front windows? Mine is a converted Commercial and I have to hold my finger on the button. I am coping reasonably well with the shame

Maybe u have a early D2 so like my D1 its one touch of the button lowering, but finger on the button to raise.
That way it gives the manufacturers some thing to add and a feature to boast about on the new model year…as they do. I have found all newish cars now have one touch in doth directions, and at the front on both sides.

discool · Jul 10, 2021

Landmark2 said:
Hi Charlie,
The window regulators are a known problem - the nylon wheel breaks. Door card off job I'm affraid. Easy enough to replace.

https://www.roverparts.com/resources/videos/repair-window-regulator-motor-discovery-ii/
Griff

Yup, a common issue for me with my D1 I replace one on my rear door the other evening. A few days before the nylon wheel shattered with a bang, removing and refitting the door card carefully takes the time but replacing the regulator was just 20 minutes and made a new plastic vapour membrane as the original plastic item broke up.

Some time ago (18 years) had to replace the front passengers window regulator, this time my fault I tried to lower the glass but it was frozen, so again bang and the regulator was now twisted metal, took me an hour in total on a very cold January morning, plus another hour to get the replacement from the main dealer.

And now there’s videos on how to do it

yfo866 · Jul 11, 2021

discool said:
Maybe u have a early D2 so like my D1 its one touch of the button lowering, but finger on the button to raise.
That way it gives the manufacturers some thing to add and a feature to boast about on the new model year…as they do. I have found all newish cars now have one touch in doth directions, and at the front on both sides.

It's a 2002 facelift jobby but an ex commercial. A previous owner has put full leather seat interior in it with electric front seats and seat warmers with an LED lightbar out front. So i don't know if Commercials were bog standard basic spec and as such didn't have one touch or whether all D2s had it and mine has defective gear. I've only seen D2s with bonded rear side windows too yet mine has D1 style window rubbers.
The previous owner's lack of basic wiring skills worries me too. Between the light bar and the switch inside which is in the front of the console cubby box, he used four or five lengths of wire!

yfo866 · Jul 11, 2021

discool said:
Yup, a common issue for me with my D1 I replace one on my rear door the other evening. A few days before the nylon wheel shattered with a bang, removing and refitting the door card carefully takes the time but replacing the regulator was just 20 minutes and made a new plastic vapour membrane as the original plastic item broke up.

Some time ago (18 years) had to replace the front passengers window regulator, this time my fault I tried to lower the glass but it was frozen, so again bang and the regulator was now twisted metal, took me an hour in total on a very cold January morning, plus another hour to get the replacement from the main dealer.

And now there’s videos on how to do it

I've been lucky with front windows, apart from the time i went to lower my driver's window and the glass dropped a couple of inches, dropped at a weird angle in the frame and then sat there. After removing the door panel and having a gander i discovered the metal piece that holds the bottom of the glass had rusted, expanded and parted company from the glass leaving it hanging in the air. All was fine once i bought a new bracket off ebay and fitted it. But that was in a 1996 D1.
'Touch wood', apart from having to hold my finger on the button the windows in my D2 are fine

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