Poorly Seat + Sticking Window!

Hi everyone (me again), hope your all cool

ok, after spending the week away visiting family I got back today and gave the Rangie a good clean out (it had had my cousins children in and was totally trashed with mud, crisps etc - cant believe how much mess kids make!). Anyway, while giving the car a clean I noticed the motor that raises and lowers the passengers rear half of the seat base (the motor to lift your bum up and down!) has stopped working. I am guessing its a fried motor?? The rest of the seats electrics are fine, just this funtion has stopped (thinks back to the kids going 'woooo, look at the electric seats' and me saying 'stoppit' and them not listening ). If so, does anyone know how much for a new motor and how easy they are to fit (is now realising I am going to HAVE to learn this vehicle otherwise garage costs are just going to mount)??

Also, in a kinda non-related event, my drivers side front window has started sticking on the way up, I knew it was doing this and it started a few weeks ago after I had done a bit of greenlaning. However, today it finally decided to become a more urgent problem by not going up and the message center helpfully telling me the window was blocked. I got it back up by holding the glass and 'helping' the window back up and shut. It seems the rear (towards the B post) is rising a little faster than the front of the glass. Could I have dislodged something when going over a bump/dip?? Kinda stuck on this one.

Thanks yet again for any help people
-Wills

ello njh here.
Have you taken a door trim off before?
If you have not, then these (in my humble opinion) seem to come off the easiest.
Undo the screw located behind the door release catch (chrome?).
Then undo the two screws inside the handle you close the door with (have no idea what techy term is, dont say handle!).
Then gently prise off cover that houses treble tweeter from behind door mirror, on my car there are no screws holding this on, just a kind of push fit clip.
Once you've done all of that find a thin, but strong wide (as possible) knife or very thin metal ruler and go to the bottom right hand corner of the door trim, slide the ruler in about 2 inches from the bottom, try and put a cloth behind it so's you do not scratch the paint, and then you slide gently, but firmly up until you reach the first plug that holds the trim on and lever gently it out of the door frame. Ideally put something either side of the plug as you lever it out. repeat all the way around the door and then you will have to gently but firmly push the door trim up to clear the interior lock/button/plunger.
Once you've done this you should be able to see wether the glass has moved in its holder or the rivets that hold it to the door are loose.
I restuck mine using a suitable glue and drilled out the rivets and put short nuts and bolts because as they get older and used they rattle when you shut the door.Also give it all a smear of grease.


hope that helps.

njh

For the window try lubricating the material that the glass runs in on the frame. A good squirt of a silicone based polish might be all it needs, dash polish or back to black. Often the motors are load sensitive to stop the glass guilotening kids necks when the windows are being closed. Perhaps you need to overide this before you take your cousins kids out next time