Outer Window Shaft Strip

Outer Window Shaft Strip

• After removing with the door glass and window regulator still installed, the window shaft strip must be replaced.

• It is possible to remove without destroying only when the door glass and window regular are removed.

Special tools, testers and auxiliary items required

• Hook (3438)

• Cover the shaft of the hook with tape to prevent causing damage.

Removing

- Remove the exterior rearview mirror. Refer to => [ Exterior Rearview Mirror Assembly Overview ] Exterior Rearview Mirror Assembly Overview.

- Open the door window completely.

- Before the window shaft strip - 1 - can be removed, first disconnect it from the door hooks - arrows - - 2 -.





- Insert the hook (3438) between the door window and the window shaft strip near the B-pillar.





- Starting at the B-pillar, move the hook forward to the first retaining hook with the given dimensions and release the window shaft strip with the hook (3438) in the direction of the - arrow -.

- Pull the window shaft strip out of the first catch using the hook (3438).





- Move the hook (3438) to the next catch and release the window shaft strip.

• The measurements are from the end of the window shaft strip to the B-pillar.

• Dimension - a - = 90 mm

• Dimension - b - = 240 mm

• Dimension - c - = 395 mm.

• Dimension - d - = 545 mm

• Dimension - e - = 700 mm

- Release the window shaft strip retaining hooks one by one and pull it upward off the door.





Installation


Do not pry open the hooks, if necessary they must be bent back into their original shape.

• Beginning at the A-pillar, press the window shaft strip completely into the retaining hooks in the door.

- Install the exterior rearview mirror. Refer to => [ Exterior Rearview Mirror Housing ] Exterior Rearview Mirror Housing.