elec windows in a mk1

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looking on the caddy site about elec windows for a caddy
found this

This installation uses your original (OEM) window regulators, and the motors from any VW from the "Caddy" era It took me about an hour to suss out the first regulator, the second one took less than 10 minutes.

All pics are of the UK passenger mechanism.

1. Drill out the 4 rivets holding the two halves of the regulator gear assy to the rail.

OEM Regulator
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2. Once the rivet afair is drilled out the regulator gear assy will seperate and will look something like this

OEM Gear mech



3. Now on the rail there are 2 raised locating parts, these will have to be filed down as they donot match with the motor gear mechanism.

File these nibs down



4. Motors unbolted from their original regulator (in this case Scirocco), but any worm driven (not cable) VW motor will do

Scirocco Motors




5. Next thing is to remove the gear mechanism from the Scirocco (donor) buy drilling out the 4 rivets in the same manor as before

Scirocco Regulators/Mech assy




From the other side


6.Once drilled out you will be left with the two halves of the mech and the gear.

Scirocco mech/gear removed from its regulator




7. Now its time to offer up the electric motor gear to your original caddy regulator.

The gear sitting in it new home


8. One side of the new gear assy needs to be welded to the regulator rail (this performs the same task as the locating tabs we filled down earlier).

Tack weld is all thats needed




9. Now with fresh grease it can be re-assembled with M6 nuts & bolt (unless you prefer to weld)

Bolted together


10. Now the motor can be bolted to the braket (depending on the doner vehicle, you may have to drill holes in the bracket to mount the motor in a suitable postion within the door confines

Motor bolted to mech


11. Your complete assy should now look something like this,, the motor sits up just under the quarter/vent window so its out of the way of everything

Ready to be fitted to the door



I will add more to this post soon including a wiring diagram, once its all done I will add this to the "How To" section

Enjoy

Al
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[Storm]

do you think it work in a mk1 scirocco

told it works in transporter van too

[SCIROCCOSILBERFEDER]

do you think it work in a mk1 scirocco

told it works in transporter van too

Evening!

Well, amazing what you can dig up on the net as i am literally half way through doing this to my project mk 1.

I have come across one major problem so far [though there are others of a minor issue ive found] the motor fouls on the inside of the door frame, it is possible to "make" it sit right but its not quite right. It does work in a fashion. To make it work properly it would mean some door re-fabriocation but im not going to do that.

In order to make it work, allbeit with the motor acting now like a piece of volvo SIPS equipement, the rails need to be super smooth and clean as i have found that the windown can "stick" on the inner material bits on the runners and thus the windows can get stuck. A genorous application of copper ease also helps!

Kind regards

SSF