Removing a side door window

[Jean Mercier]

Removing a side door window

Necessary for at least In My Humble Opinion (IMHO):

• Replacing the window
• Accessing the door handle and door button
• Repairing a punched door
• Tightening screws of the external door handle

Tools:

• Torx 25 screwdriver
• Torx 30 screwdriver
• Trimming tools

The video's that I made don't include the mounting instructions as this is the reverse of dismounting.

In the “techcontent.ineosautomotive.com” (for those who have access) go to:
Workshop Manual > Station Wagon and Utility Wagon > Body Closures > Front Door (RH) > Armrest Finisher Front Right (Remove for Access and Install)

• Remark: this section is in fact for a Right-Hand Drive car (driver side), while I did perform it on the right passenger door of a left-hand drive car, but the procedure is almost the same for the passenger side, but is slightly easier to execute.
• The first step is the easiest, see the video, this is only clipped. Beware, metal clips can fall off.

Then > File List > Door Trim Front Right (Remove for Access and Install)

• Step 0: Prepare a support for the door trim see:
  
• Step 1: Don’t disconnect the battery unless strictly necessary (my personal opinion).
• Step 8: This connector is NOT accessible as shown (for my car MY2023). I could only disconnect it AFTER removing the door trim.

For the electrical connectors: there is always a latch that you should push for disconnecting them, but all connectors are different, therefore look, feel and try carefully.

Then > File List > Window Front Right (Remove and Install)

Comments on the executions steps:

• 2. no grommets in my Grenadier Manufacturing Year 2023 (I did put some helicopter tape afterwards)
• 3. As I did not disconnect the battery, this step wasn’t necessary.
• 4. As this was the passenger door, I could avoid this step by using the switch on the driver side!
• 6. Difficult to find the right position, mainly because what I saw didn’t correspond to the Ineos video. The right position is as seen on this picture:
  
• 7. OK, do this
• 8. I didn’t, as explained before
• 9. Only necessary if you were removing the window on the driver side (see step 4)
• 10. Push the window clips and lift the window, one by one (first one side, then the other).

When putting a screwdriver into the hole, you should not encounter “glass”. Then you know you executed step 6 correctly. In fact you are pushing the “hook shaped” clip through the round hole at the bottom of the window (see the picture with the dismounted window below).
Remove the window by tilting in a diagonal angle and lifting it up. Quite difficult to explain, and I was alone otherwise I would have made a video)

If removing the window was not the ultimate goal, but something else as explained at the beginning of my post, you should continue:

Then > File List > Window Regulator Bracket Front Right (Remove for Access and Install)

Remark: the disconnection of the electrical connectors can be skipped, if, (like it was my case), you need for instance only to tighten the bolt of the door handle.

Beware: clips can break, see the lower left clip, replaced by the upper right.

For your information, as I didn’t understand how to remove the window, I did unscrew the “Window Regulator Bracket” before removing the window and removed it slightly to see the inside (view up to down), and some details explained here:

[Remark: it is possible that I will edit my post in the coming hours, or after reading my post tomorrow or today, or after remarks from forum users. I do not pretend this is complete, 100% correct, or in line with Ineos safety requirements. Everybody uses it at his own risk]

 

[CountyV8]

Wel done Jean half the manual will be on you tube soon,

 

[nzmark]

Brilliant and thank you, Jean, but how did you get access to "techcontent.ineosautomotive.com"?

 

[Jean Mercier]

Brilliant and thank you, Jean, but how did you get access to "techcontent.ineosautomotive.com"?

Well, as an early owner, I got an e-mail with access details.
There are some threads explaining this, for instance "here"

 

[nzmark]

Well, as an early owner, I got an e-mail with access details.
There are some threads explaining this, for instance "here"

Thank you. I, too, was an "early adopter" (build date 032023 which I assume is 20 March 2023) but have never received anything. I've filled out the form now, thank you.