Sorry no photos today, but I had to remove (almost) all my everyday carry, and very carefully climb up the driver’s side. I had to observe my weight distribution as well, not looking to break the sunroof or the windshield obviously.
I only brought one of my EDC tools, my NexTool card tool. That was enough to loosen up the antenna and unscrew it the rest of the way by hand.
Maybe see if you can get a mini antenna converter or something? Then it won’t be a problem? Edit: like this one.
That’s not the problem, that’s his temporary solution.
You know how modern vehicles won’t let the rear windows down below ~33%? Child Safety, and rightly so…
Someone rode rear driver side and forced the window down, like a fucking idiot.
Wat only like some cars have that. And it’s not for kid saftey. It’s bad design. If your kid is going to fall out of the car why the fuck are they not buckled in lol.
Yeah, it’s usually because something like the rear wheel well obstructs the window from being able to roll down any further.
Someone rode rear driver side and forced the window down, like a fucking idiot.
Probably just fucked the regulator. They aren’t hard to change.
This one is unfortunately hard to change. To start, gotta get the window up to start unbolting shit. Well shit don’t work, can’t get the window up.
So, with no way to get the window up without breaking it, I’m hands-off on this situation…
Door panel should pop off easy enough so you can access the window scissor
That doesn’t matter when the glass is blocking access to the bolt for proper disassembly.
What do, break glass?
Any door trim bolts won’t be going in the glass zone. Once the trim is off you’ll have some access points to try to bring window back into position.
That’s not the problem, the problem is I have to lift the glass to access the bolts…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2IO1attnFQ
How do lift the glass out of the door?
Nobody ever covers fun shit like that…
Oh, to be clear, the main bolt in question is not a door panel trim bolt or screw. It’s a main bolt for the window regulator, which sits behind the fallen window…
Cut a hole in the cover for the antenna.
Umm, no, not an option nor my vehicle…
I see people put like a mini storage tote over the sharkfin to keep it from puncturing a car cover. Seems to work well although I’m guessing you have to put a towel down or something to keep it from scratching paint
Its not a sharkfin antenna, its like ~9-10 inches long.
Had to be removed, but it was almost pretty easy. Anyone else woulda done it, they would have broken the windshield or the sunroof, if not perhaps more…
Ohh misunderstood.
Yeah too many people don’t realize windshields are very fragile…
