Subtle window - door motion

I have experienced this in several other cars. Better to bend than break.

 

My 2000 Corvette did this every time you rolled up the window. There is an alignment issue with the window tracking or door in relation to the notch in the upper door frame or the window roll up is not near it's maximum height but the door frame won't allow it to go any higher into the trac. The window will then continue to try and roll up but since it is out of room it will bow out the door frame to allow for that extra 1/2" or so up window that "needed" to be rolled up.

This may be just a part of the design so I'm not saying something is wrong.

 

Electric window regulators generally don't have any sort of limit
switches or stop sensing, they just slam the mechanism into the
hard limit [aka weatherstripping at the top end] and hope the
users notices that the window is closed. You can see this in
the dimming of lights [e.g. voltage drop] if you hold the switch
any longer. So yes, the motor is exerting its full stalled
torque against whatever it's mounted on, and car doors aren't
rigid objects.
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Do you need to set the auto limits by holding the switch up after the window reaches the top?

 

The mods are going to have a dickens of a time sorting these over into the Gen III category




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I feel this also in my '06. No real biggie for me, and it's never been a problem of any kind. I doubt the wife has even noticed. She's just getting the hang of the pulse and glide thing after 3 years, but God bless her, she's trying!!

 

I get this movement in my work car, a Holden Commodore. I thought this was the case but delayed posting until I checked to make sure.

 

Can't say I've looked for it, but I also have not noticed this happening. Seems to be pretty must straight up and down.

 

My 1995 Tercel has a very advanced system for reducing the thud of the windows. I crank them up quickly to within an inch of the top and then crank slowly until they stop.

 

Funny enough my 1983 tercel AWD wagon had a similar system although I would assume slightly more primative in design. This also carried over to the larger 1990 SV21 Camry wagon.

 

well i have noticed that the windows do close with a lot of pressure which makes me think that a few people here are wrong and an adjustment might be in order. they definitely close harder than my SPM which i notice does slow down just before it closes. the 2010 does not. at first i attributed it to new windows, new motor, etc but now i am not so sure

the window must be computer controlled to a point so it knows about when the windows are closed. sensing pressure before this point insures no major damage to extremities of human occupants. now this makes so much sense, i took it for granted that is how new electric windows worked. mundane low tech items like garage and "Safeway" doors work this way and do so due to lawsuits. so are we saying that car windows are different?

 

In my car the rear windows slow down just before reaching the top or bottom, but the front windows do not.

Anybody else with non-slowing fronts?

 

According to the owners manual the windows have an anti-trap feature--are you saying you tested it and it doesn't work?