I was rolling my window down late one very cold evening and it was frozen shut. Before I could fully realize what was happening, i heard a loud crack and pieces of something fall down in the door, but a loud clunk as the window dropped to the bottom of the inner door as well. Needless to say, it was a cold ride home. I managed to prop it up the next day with a piece of wood, but it falls often, and had to keep my driver side door torn apart, while I figured out what to do. slowly but surely I put together that it was the plastic clips that attach the window clips to the regulator that was broken and NOT the entire regulator, as everyone seemed to be insinuating. I went on ebay and found a store that sold the clips , normally would've went to my local junkyard, but considering removal process and the pandemic, I looked online, and purchased the driver side pair for $7. instead of $50-150$. had to share!
for having only 22,000 miles on my car and living in AZ where your windows are hardly ever down or used up and down i think this is absolutely ridiculous
Well, I am on my second window regulator. I can't believe there are no re manufactured ones available. You have to buy a new one everytime the plastic piece breaks, which is becoming more frequent. Just replaced the left rear last December, and now the right one is broke. 60,000 miles and you can't keep the windows up! I hope Ford has fixed this in the new Focus. I'll never find out cause I wouldn't buy another one.
I love this car, but have you ever been driving down the interstate and open up a rear window for fresh air and the window disappears? so you get the window back up and put something against it to keep it from falling down, then not even a month later the same thing happens to the other rear window. common designers whats going on. create something to better keep your windows in place. anyone wants to steal anything out of my car all they have to do is push down on the windows. get it fixed!!!!!
Me and my ex both have the 2000 Ford Focus and both cars have the same problem the stupid cheap piece of sh*t plastic clips that hold our windows on their tracks have broken and in both cars three out of the four windows are broken!!! Being help up by a number of things tape, door stop, and wood stick. After reading others complaints I am saddened but assured that ford has made a crappy choice in going cheap! The time has come for the both of us to get new cars and with out ford offering and help in the area of the windows I am thinking of looking else where when buying a new car!!!
- Jonathan F.,
American Fork, UT, US
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I was rolling my window down late one very cold evening and it was frozen shut. Before I could fully realize what was happening, i heard a loud crack and pieces of something fall down in the door, but a loud clunk as the window dropped to the bottom of the inner door as well. Needless to say, it was a cold ride home. I managed to prop it up the next day with a piece of wood, but it falls often, and had to keep my driver side door torn apart, while I figured out what to do. slowly but surely I put together that it was the plastic clips that attach the window clips to the regulator that was broken and NOT the entire regulator, as everyone seemed to be insinuating. I went on ebay and found a store that sold the clips , normally would've went to my local junkyard, but considering removal process and the pandemic, I looked online, and purchased the driver side pair for $7. instead of $50-150$. had to share!
- Sarah S., Greenville, MI, US