Window Winders (Kingswood)

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How on earth do you get them off.
I have the special tool for it which i placed under the washer and tried to pry it open.
No luck, what's the trick?

Thanks

[Calaber]

How on earth do you get them off.
I have the special tool for it which i placed under the washer and tried to pry it open.
No luck, what's the trick?

Thanks

There really is no special trick, but there are a couple of things you need to be aware of. The first is that the spring clips are accessed by pushing the tool between the handle and the washer, not behind the washer. If you've been trying to push them off by going in behind the washer, that's why they wont release. The clips can be put on from either side of the handle. Correctly, they should be pushed on from the outside of the handle, so that when you want to remove the handle, the removing tool is slid in under the handle. They might not have been put in from the correct side. You can push the door trim away from the handle and look into the gap to see which way the clips are positioned.

The second thing is that the removing tool can slide past the clip, instead of pushing it off the spindle, if the tool is made of a very thin guage of metal or is bent. Are the two ends of your removing tool perfectly flat and aligned?

The clip can sometimes get caught behind the plastic spacer that sits between the door trim and the handle.

If you try all these options and it still won't release, get a small piece of coat hanger, make a hook and push it in behind the handle and hook the looped end of the clip to pull it out.

[mummbles]

i used to just slip the tool up under the winder and slowly wind it until I felt the clip in the right place on the tool. Push gently and off it popped.
+1 to the clip sometimes getting tangled with the plastic spacer though.

[crew chief]

best tool ever is a piece of rag, dont need to locate anything, pull it up behind the handle and bingo works everytime............

[Reaper]

best tool ever is a piece of rag, dont need to locate anything, pull it up behind the handle and bingo works everytime............

What he says ^^^^
Cheap too

Reaper

[Chilly]

best tool ever is a piece of rag, dont need to locate anything, pull it up behind the handle and bingo works everytime............

Took me half an hour to do this -_- stupid window winder. I do have a VT though.

[VYMAD]

I use a small flat head screwdriver with a slight bend in it. After doing it a couple of times it becomes like riding a bike, piece 'o' piss.

[Dayvo]

Sometimes only one side of the clip comes undone and the other side gets pushed into the handle and gets stuck.

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Sometimes only one side of the clip comes undone and the other side gets pushed into the handle and gets stuck.

Thank you for the replies, i now have a few different ways in which to try it.
However it seems that Dayvo is right, i can hear one side unclick and then the other not, i'll try the cloth trick next.
The tool is bent a bit and has two sizes at their end to open the winder, neither have been successful for me...yet....

[Chilly]

Thank you for the replies, i now have a few different ways in which to try it.
However it seems that Dayvo is right, i can hear one side unclick and then the other not, i'll try the cloth trick next.
The tool is bent a bit and has two sizes at their end to open the winder, neither have been successful for me...yet....

The cloth definitely works mate, just need a little bit of patience ....well, i did anyway

[delcowizzid]

yip rag for the win

[Hershal Gibbs]

They either use a screw on the front or a U shaped spring clip behind the center part of the handle where the door panel meets the handle. If you push the door panel in by the handle you'll be able to see it. Auto parts stores have a tool to get it off.