98 Accent - Dead window winder, any fixes?

The window winder (luckily only on the passenger side) broke a bit
earlier this year.

During the summer my passenger used the window winder over a couple of
hot summer days (not too many days, being in the north of England...)
and noticed each day that the window was getting progressively harder
to wind back up. (Winding it down was no problem).

I decided when I was free one weekend to have a quick look. I wound
the window down, but this time it refused to go back up at all - no
matter how much strength was applied.

Not wanting to get stuck into a lengthy repair job I was forced to
yank the handle off and use a pair of pliars (sorry, don't know the US
name for pliars...) to turn the window back up. While winding it up
the mechanism emitted an awful grinding sound.

I've recently tried spraying loads of different specialist lubricants
(don't laugh!) down the window edges in case it is the runners that
are at fault but it hasn't fixed it. I don't fancy removing the entire
door panel to have a look as I think this would entail taking off the
door handle and I don't want to start a job that I can't finish
properly.

Luckily as it is November now there's exactly 0% reason for the window
to down again until at least Spring 2004 !!! I might just save a few
pennies to have a professional fix done then.

So to the question: Anyone else had this problem with this model, is
it a well known problem on this car? And most importantly, anyone got
a fix for it ?

Cheers !

 

We have that problem with our 19996 Accent. It is a pain but so far there is
no way of getting it fixed. THe winding mechanism broke on us about two
years ago and the Hyundai Autobody shop doesn't seem to know how to fix that
problem.

 

I ment 1996...

 

I got this reply from another forum and part of it caught my eye. This
is the reply I got:

"my 95 had a similar problem where it became stiff to roll up. It
turned out that the window came loose from the little clip that holds
the window that is attached to the regulator assembly and was going up
a little bit crooked and catching on the side moldings. It is only
held in by some black goop type of substance. Anyways I took it all
apart and reattached with some new goop and it working OK now. Its
hard to line up perfectly. They also may have changed between 95 and
98."


The bit that caught my eye was where it says the window came up
"crooked" as that's exactly what mine does. The solution suggested
sounds a bit cryptic so I think i'll pass on it, but I thought I'd
post this in case it helps you to solve your problem. Thanks !