Supra broken into, Need help removing glass from window regulators.

[demerol]

Do you "feel accomplished" asking for help, then arguing with those who have more common sense than you?

People rather spend time attacking people that want to accomplish their own shit and learn instead of doing something for themselves.

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[Emspilot]

Saving myself money and learning something new, fixing something I own, not having to rely on other people to do the work for me. Again thanks for the negativity, continue being an asshole in life. Got my answer and I was going about it correctly. Just needed to know the hint there was a 5mm hex bolt on the other side to help with the stripped one.

You’re welcome.
By the way…. Since you do it all yourself, did you replace that tire yourself or take it to a shop?

 

[Emspilot]

Let's just try to help a forum member out if we can with the technical side of the repair or request.

This is the internet. Everyone pays….

 

[demerol]

Do you "feel accomplished" asking for help, then arguing with those who have more common sense than you?

If any of them offered a valid opinion or suggestion, i wouldn't argue with them. I don't need to file an insurance claim.

 

[demerol]

You’re welcome.
By the way…. Since you do it all yourself, did you replace that tire yourself or take it to a shop?

I have access to a tire machine, So yes i did it myself with the help of a neighbors machine.

 

[Lonestar_Nomad]

If you run into any other issues, feel free to DM me. BMW and VW really like to complicate their doors for some reason. Germans…

 

[demerol]

If you run into any other issues, feel free to DM me. BMW and VW really like to complicate their doors for some reason. Germans…

Yeah my volkswagen door handle broke and that was a nightmare replacing it, but finally figured out a trick after the passenger side broke. Fucking corrados.

 

[Syeeee]

Maybe I’m in the minority too, but I think similarly like OP and would not file an insurance claim. Only difference is I wouldn’t DIY this because it’s not to my abilities to fix in a reasonable amount of time, but I would have paid out of pocket for a shop to fix it. Insurance claims aren’t freebies, they’ll eventually collect back those claims on premiums and then some. In this case, you’d only submit an insurance claim if you don’t have the cash or don’t want to pay the full $ amount now.

Not sure how America does it but stuff like this goes under comprehensive claim. Long as you don't file "theft" or some higher pedigree claim, it won't take a hit on premiums at all.

 

[Lonestar_Nomad]

Yeah my volkswagen door handle broke and that was a nightmare replacing it, but finally figured out a trick after the passenger side broke. Fucking corrados.

Those give me ptsd. Along with the (and this is not exaggeration) 110 torx screws holding on the front and rear bumpers of a VW beetle. I’d rather give the service advisor a handy, than to have him park that shit in my bay.

 

[Syeeee]

Do you have the actual verbiage or language in your policy that says so?

Yes.

It's pretty standard in Canada iirc.

 

[demerol]

Not sure how America does it but stuff like this goes under comprehensive claim. Long as you don't file "theft" or some higher pedigree claim, it won't take a hit on premiums at all.

In america a comp claim will go against your insurance. Sadly its bullshit.

 

[Syeeee]

Please share it, that sounds awesome. Even for not at fault accidents, it will have an effect on our insurance premiums. But of course those need to be claimed or else we’d be shit out of luck trying to get money in a small court claim or something.

Yeah, accidents will. Things like fire/theft/a random tire flying/huge pot hole wrecking your suspension.

Forgot to edit my previous post: Theft does fall into comp.

I won't go scatter through my insurance policy lol but here is a jist of it.

 

[DEupra]

Searching online, it makes it sound like California is much more lenient on insurance than I was suspecting, I'll delete my comments and they can live in all of @Syeeee 's responses to unclutter this thread for actual usefulness on the topic. But i don't like that word "typically" lol.

 

[MyCorolla]

As the title says. My supra was recently broken into (stole nothing, just broke the window and slashed all my tires) but I've tried to replace the passenger window myself and am now stuck at trying to get the glass out of the window regulators. I have tried to use hex bits to remove the screw on the outside of the regulator but they do not budge and have actually broken 2 bits and started to strip the screws out. I dont see any other way to remove the glass from the regulator in order to slide the new glass in place. Please help me, its been months with my car sitting without a window because i've all but given up on replacing it.

This might help, given that it’s about the door.

 

[razorlab]

Holy shit. People think I'm an asshole? Good lord there are some real assholes in this thread.

Guy wants to work on his own car and ya'll acting like it's hot lava. Are ya'll too scared to check the air in your tires? Do you know where your tires are? What oil do they use?

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