Bought my first car this week!

[Electronic M]

I decided to try to fix some problems yesterday. I took the driver side door card off and found the NEW power lock motor I installed a few months back has went open (time to check if the vendor has a warranty)...


Next up was the window click issue. If rolled all the way up on roll down there would be a loud click that would resonate in the pane. I thought adjustments must have been off for it to do that, but after playing with adjustments and greasing it, no change. Then I focused on the plastic pane bracket and noticed the track on it was cracked...Some playing with it revealed that the top track crack was allowing the runner in the track to move too far up as the window closed and the runner was partially coming out of the bottom of the track when the window was closed. When opened from that state the runner would eventually pop back in LOUDLY. After a bit of musing I came up with a solution. There is a bolt above the crack in the track which (along with keeping the track from breaking worse than it was) allowed me to bolt in a piece of metal to keep the cracked piece of track from moving in the wrong direction that was causing the problems...I just had to make and install said piece of metal. It may not be the prettiest repair or the 'right' way (I'd probably need to find a parts car to fix it the 'right' way), but it works exactly as intended...The track is solid again, and no more clicking.


I also went after the radio and got the 8-track back up to speed/to stop scraping. That player seems to be the only one to like a Quadraphonic Swing tape after it was eaten by another deck, so I now have at least one quad tape with GOOD music to play in my car

As a sort of pleasant thank you while I was driving it last night after working on it, to charge the battery back up, for the first time since I've owned it the 'Miles to Empty' computer came on.


This afternoon I also noticed after it being parked overnight that the headlamp covers were half open, which surprised me since normally the engine vacuum drops with in 2-3 hours of the engine stopping, to the point those covers pop wide open.