is there any way to set up the rear windows on a malibu wagon to roll down? my dad has a 81 malibu wagon and i have a 84 cutlass sedan. i think he would like a manual window crank and i would like power. but either way would be good. thanks for the help.
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daffy said:
On a 4 dr car I don't believe I have ever heard of somebody retrofitting them to roll down.
The GM desighn (BAD design i might add) for these 4 dr cars is for ALL to be fixed rear windows. That is why they give you the little flip out vent in the back doors.
My wife HATED them, and complained when we would go on vacations with the dog that we couldn't roll them down and that she had NEVER heard of such a thing in a 4 dr. car.
I would imagine it would be a MAJOR effort to fashon one as they were never set up to accept any kind of mechanism to roll down.
if you pull the door panel, you will see why they do not roll down. The door cuts in too far for the wheel well, so it does not have the room to work. Why GM did this, I don't know. Maybe it was their culture of corporate indifference that made them think people would buy it because it is a GM car.
85 Cutlass Brougham said:
Good point, but there are many cars with this cut in and they just don't go down all the way, but if they only could go down some it would be better than nothing.
Back in the day when i worked at a GM dealership, the salesmen told me it was a cost savings decision that GM had decided on. Needless to say the salesmen got a lot of grief from customers about it.
My wife also likes to add that it is unsafe if ever trapped in the car in someway and you don't have the option of opening those windows to get out, which I believe always made her on edge about it.
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