Ferrari Mailing List: Re: 308/Mondial window motor current

[Matt Boyd (ferrari308driver]

Just another datapoint. I had "very very slow" windows (so bad that
you have to open the door to allow the window to close the last couple
millimeters). Then one day I cleaned out the grease from the drive
gear mechanism, and this significantly sped up my windows! They were
then "very slow." I finally replaced the window motors which sped them
up a little more to being "slow."

Then I put 12V straight to the motor and it positively zipped the
window up and down very very fast.

Like Rick said and we're all concurring, it's a combo of things.

-matt
'85 euro 308
previous '83 euro mondial

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Hans E. Hansen <FList [at] hanshansen.org> 
wrote:
> Yes, maybe the connections are a bit more pristeen than most.  My car
> is a zero rain car (and when washing I'm carefull to not run water down
> the windows into the door cavity) and all of the various connections, etc.
> look brand new.
>
> What would happen if you simply "exercised" those connections?  ie -
> pull them apart and put them back together with the hope that corrosion
> will be wiped off?  A little Stabilant 22 in the process would help also.
>
> Hans.