My rear windows keep falling off of the track. Whats wrong?
What comes stock on the Impala is a plastic piece that goes in the window channel and has a recepticle for the ball on the end of the lifting arm. The main feature of this plastic piece is that it is designed to break if tremendous pressure (i.e. human arm caught in the window and switch activated) was put on where the lifting arm ball snapped into the plastic piece. It is shaped oblong, and is about 1 1/4″ long with rounded ends. If the window sticks, this piece probably will break, and then the window will fall off of the track. If your windows have come off track before, you have probably broken this piece, and you are now only able to roll your rear windows up by putting the metal ball at the end of the lifting arm into the window channel. This works fine to get the window up and keep them there but it is by no means a final soloution as the window channel opening is about 5/8″ wide and the ball at the end of the lifting arm is about 1/4″. So when the window is all the way down, th