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Originally Posted by Peter7307
I was having an informal discussion recently with some engineers about weight saving in cars and some of the mods people can do themselves when the topic of windows came up.
The general thoughts of this group were these days the weight savings were about nil as modern power window mechanisms weighed about the same as their manual counterparts.
Does anyone have any numbers or comments on this?
Peter.
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In my 89 Jeep, I took the power motor from the back and moved it to the front to replace the dead motor, and put manual in the back. The manual was lighter for sure, but not by a whole lot.
If you want lighter, don't fight gravity.
and use slider windows, not roll-up and down windows.
I'm still trying to figure out how to do the windows on the MGeo as light as possible, and thinking sliders.