RE-POSITIONING THE WINDOW WINDERS. While I was sitting in the back seat today, contemplating what to re-trim Daphne's C pillars with, I suddenly noticed that the window winder handles were all akimbo, pointing in quite different directions.*
I scurried away to ask the nice folks on Aussiefrogs what I could do to fix this. Within minutes I had a reply that it wasn't difficult to re-position the handles, so I set about doing so. However, I was stumped, and after staring blankly at the handle for a while, I returned to the forum for further instruction. Apparently, all it would take was to push on the plastic spacer ring between the door trim and the handle, remove the locking pin, put the handle in the correct position, drop the pin back in, and the job would be done.*
Actually, it pretty much did go that way, though I didn't have any tools other than my hands; almost immediately I dropped the first locking pin in the blue metal gravel of the 'workshop', and spent a few frantic minutes looking for it, but that was the only mishap. In a short while I had all four handles facing forward, though all at different angles due to some vagaries of the mechanism.*
This project was yet another example of the generosity in sharing knowledge in the Citroën community.
BELOW: winder handle and black plastic ring spacer removed (pin is where? Probably on the ground) from winder mechanism on the door.*
BOTTOM: winder handle, black plastic ring spacer and locking pin, which attaches the handle to the winder mechanism (metal lug poking through hole in the door trim) through the hole you can see at the top.
I scurried away to ask the nice folks on Aussiefrogs what I could do to fix this. Within minutes I had a reply that it wasn't difficult to re-position the handles, so I set about doing so. However, I was stumped, and after staring blankly at the handle for a while, I returned to the forum for further instruction. Apparently, all it would take was to push on the plastic spacer ring between the door trim and the handle, remove the locking pin, put the handle in the correct position, drop the pin back in, and the job would be done.*
Actually, it pretty much did go that way, though I didn't have any tools other than my hands; almost immediately I dropped the first locking pin in the blue metal gravel of the 'workshop', and spent a few frantic minutes looking for it, but that was the only mishap. In a short while I had all four handles facing forward, though all at different angles due to some vagaries of the mechanism.*
This project was yet another example of the generosity in sharing knowledge in the Citroën community.
BELOW: winder handle and black plastic ring spacer removed (pin is where? Probably on the ground) from winder mechanism on the door.*
BOTTOM: winder handle, black plastic ring spacer and locking pin, which attaches the handle to the winder mechanism (metal lug poking through hole in the door trim) through the hole you can see at the top.
lol