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What would cause a tick sound when putting down my power window?

I have a 99 Volkwagen Jetta and just recently noticed that my driver's front power window when about halfway down makes an obnoxious tick sound for half a second, and then makes the same sound when I put the window back up in the same spot. I just had the car in last week for a power window switch replacement so I would imagine if there was an issue with the cabling or anything else they would have told me (especially since I mentioned this to them). While they were doing the repairs they said they didn't hear anything out of the ordinary and when I picked it up it sounded just fine but over the weekend after the car had been out in the cold I heard the sound again and its been there ever since. The window itself goes down just fine, comes back up just fine there is no slow down or stuttering when its functioning. The tick sound seems to be coming from where the window goes down into the door where the weather stripping is, I'm not hearing any tick sound or weird sounds from down in the door itself anywhere. I also noticed that where the window is when the sound occurs there is a scratch in the window on the inside. Could that scratch in the glass be causing this annoying sound? And why would the sound be intermittent, it seems like its more noticeable when its cold out.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Could be serveral things, without taking the interior door panel off its hard to say. If you have a scratch, its probably not causing the noise, but the noise could be what caused the scratch. Some issues could be, the wires in the door are out of place and hitting the window when comming down, te regulator is going, something else is hitting the windows when its comming down. My best suggestion would be to take off th interior door panel, and watch the widow up and down, and you should be able to see what is causing your noise.

    Good Luck

  • 1 decade ago

    what im thinking that you have something that is ruining jut a bite to close for convert on the inside of your window and when your cold weather there comes mistier from melting snow from placing in the shop nice and warm and then water Taurens back to ice and then you hear the SOUND once more

    Source(s): only a guess of life and the thero of expansing and contrastione and 39 years mech
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