VW Polo electric windows

[B160 AVE]

Afternoon All

I`ve just bought my sister a VW Polo 1.6 CL Open Air 3 Door, 98/R. Both electric windows scroll down fine and scroll back up half way fine, but then grind to a halt!!! Anyone any ideas how to remedy this?

Cheers
Dave

[B160 AVE]

Bump

[Defcon5]

Do they stop, then you have to hold the button in again to get them to go up? If so its a VW thing an mine does it too!

the switches are a common fault so may be worth replacing them.

[B160 AVE]

Many thanks for the response, unfortunately I don`t think it`s the switches. They will scroll down from any position every time, but when trying to put them back up, they simply will not go above half height! You can put them up and down all day long at the bottom half of the window, and down avery time from any position, just not back up again once they are above half way, if that makes sense
Cheers
Dave

[edc]

If the mchanisms/regulator are anything like the Ibiza of the same vintage then that will be the culprit. Remove the door card and see the window in action.

[B160 AVE]

Cheers, have had the door card off and looked at it working, also doused everything in WD40, but to no avail Should I just bite the bullet and swap out both electric motors? Just seems odd it`s the same on both sides
Dave