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RE: Winter Weather and the Short Drop Glass feature
Oh boy...I'd read about the drop-down thing, but thought only convertibles had it...I have a coupe on order...Someday, somehere, the battery is going to die, if so will door still pull open with window up? if you shut it will the glass break? I really had no idea the hardtops had this- I even brought one home on a test drive to look over and never noticed it- I can just imagine working under the hood, disconnecting the battery, and opening the door- or trying to...I'm hoping this is just a convenience thing to make opening/closing easier and weatherstripping last longer, not some kind of bind that could damage the window...will have to stop at dealer and look at another one to see...mines not been serialized yet, so may not even see it till the snow flies- that sucks as I'd like to do some work on it before it ever gets wet/sees salt...dealer entered as 40 priority, but Ive asked them to bump it to 10- even if so its falling behind. cant wait
RE: Winter Weather and the Short Drop Glass feature
I don't know if it relates to the Mustang.. but...
My car before my Stang was a BMW 325Cis Convertible.. it did the Window Drop thing... I had it for 3 years and went through 3 winters. I never once has a problem with it and ice.
I larger concern for me is with all this HP, it is going to be difficult to take off real slow in the snow. Should prove either challanging or FUN!.. LOL
This is my first winter with a Mustang, and more topic specific, "short drop windows".
This past week has been hard on my windows, even with very little ice. After scraping the ice from the windows prior to opening the doors, I found that the windows remained stuck. This is because before ice, there's water, and water falls down into the smallest crevasses of our windows. So the best remedy I have found, is to take an old bank card and swipe between the seal and glass, along the entire bottom of the window and up next to the mirror to clear all of the ice. This has helped me a lot. Before using the bank card method of removing ice, one night this week when opening the door, my window glass was actually quite absurdly crooked in the frame. It was probably off level by at least 3 inches, so naturally I panicked (after all, who wants to drive 22 miles at night when it's -15 degrees below). But once I shut the door and fiddled with rolling up and down the window a couple times, it seemed to have reset itself and now everything is level and perfect fitting again. Only a small amount of ice, or even compacted snow has already proved to me, that these so-called "short drop windows" can be quite troublesome in the winter. Get out your bank cards!
THE WINDOWS DROPS AFTER THE HANDLE AND DOOR ARE OPENED AND RELEASES, SO IF YOU CAN OPEN THE DOOR NOTHING WILL HAPPEND, BUT ONCE THE DOOR IS PULED OPEN, IT WILL GO UP AND DOWN FINE
I had to find that out the hard way myself, so many people are thinking that the problem is at the top of the window, but it's more at the bottom of the window by the mirrors, what we have done with ours, is just crack the window 1/4 inch, this has been working just fine and no water or snow has got into the car.
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Originally Posted by ohioqueer
This is my first winter with a Mustang, and more topic specific, "short drop windows".
This past week has been hard on my windows, even with very little ice. After scraping the ice from the windows prior to opening the doors, I found that the windows remained stuck. This is because before ice, there's water, and water falls down into the smallest crevasses of our windows. So the best remedy I have found, is to take an old bank card and swipe between the seal and glass, along the entire bottom of the window and up next to the mirror to clear all of the ice. This has helped me a lot. Before using the bank card method of removing ice, one night this week when opening the door, my window glass was actually quite absurdly crooked in the frame. It was probably off level by at least 3 inches, so naturally I panicked (after all, who wants to drive 22 miles at night when it's -15 degrees below). But once I shut the door and fiddled with rolling up and down the window a couple times, it seemed to have reset itself and now everything is level and perfect fitting again. Only a small amount of ice, or even compacted snow has already proved to me, that these so-called "short drop windows" can be quite troublesome in the winter. Get out your bank cards!
Still useful, though. I've heard the sounds of frost/really thin ice cracking a few times, but nothing that stalled the mechanism. Figured it wouldn't normally involve the window tops, but hadn't worked out any way to fix the rest.
I won't even use a scraper on the windshield, having scratched the glass on other cars with even brand-new never-before-used scrapers, so thanks go to ohio for the plastic tip. I'll bet that unused Bondo applicators would work, too.
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RE: Winter Weather and the Short Drop Glass feature
