Drivers window

[Maritime]

My 1998 Abingdon has only done 5k miles and is garage stored, with hood down, but the driver's window doesn't fit into the hood rubber (rear side or top) when fully raised, unless raised with door already shut. No damage either to door or hood. Passenger's window is fine. Any ideas, please?
Is it possible to raise windows externally, with the locking remote, perhaps? Thanks, Graham.

[EllsoJo]

My 1998 Abingdon has only done 5k miles and is garage stored, with hood down, but the driver's window doesn't fit into the hood rubber (rear side or top) when fully raised, unless raised with door already shut. No damage either to door or hood. Passenger's window is fine. Any ideas, please?
Is it possible to raise windows externally, with the locking remote, perhaps? Thanks, Graham.

Photos of the gap would clarify where & what the problem is, exactly. The fact that you imply that there is no gap or no problem when "raised with door already shut" implies that the window is rising TOO far, and is TOO high to "fit into" (presumably you mean under or within) "the hood rubber"?

That sounds like you need to remove the door card, loosen the fixed stop and adjust it down slightly, to stop the window from rising too far.

Fixed Up-stop on door inner skin

Sorry this is somewhat out-of-focus.

The MOVING stop on the bottom of the window, is shown below:

Up-stop on window Glass

The inside of the drivers door with door card removed is below:

Holes for bolt access Small squre hole stop access

I think the smaller square hole just left of my left-hand green circle is the one you need to loosen.

[Maritime]

Thanks, Ellso.Jo, will try and investigate further, though I'm leery about prising off door cards. Couldn't be something adrift on the hood frame, I suppose? Thanks, again, Graham.

[Charless]

A second vote for the window stop from me, having had this problem with my original yellow plastic stops, now converted to the square allen key type in the photo above.

[EllsoJo]

Thanks, Ellso.Jo, will try and investigate further, though I'm leery about prising off door cards. Couldn't be something adrift on the hood frame, I suppose? Thanks, again, Graham.

Thanks for the "Thanyou"
As regards worries about prising off door cards, there are good "how tos" on this site and the MG-Rover.Org site. These usually are related to changing door locks or other items which obviously require the door card to be removed as a first step. The main thing to remember are that there are 6 screws to be removed before any prising should be attempted. Also prise out wards as close as possible to the pop-in fasteners, to avoid bending the fastener or snapping the door card. I use a couple of plastic store loyalty cards, one each side of the fastener, rather than, or in addition to, a steel tool, to avoid scratching the paint. Good luck, I have now done door card removal 5 times for a variety of reasons, and even I have not broken anything (yet!!!)

[Maritime]

[Deepfat]

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