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WYTSKY

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WYTSKY

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Hey people,

Has your window switch stopped doing the double clicky thing? one click is meant to be for go down/up until you release your finger and the other you just push and goes all the way down/up? Then this tutorial may be able to help you! and it only costs $2.30 to FIX!

Tools:

Small flat heads

Possibly a pocket knife or small knife

Phillips head

Beer

Others:

Tarzan super glue

Cost:

$2.30 for the glue

I take no responsibilty if you glue your hands to your private parts/hair or superglue yourself to the table....

or if you damage your own switch.

Righto...

1. Open the car door.... :thumbsup:

2. In the handle of the door there is a little plastic cover down the bottem in the middle, remove it with a flat head and the screw underneath it.

3. Your ready to pull off the panel from the door. Try to pull the top end out first, be gentle but firm, then run your finger down the edge of it and pull out the back end.... BUT JUST LIFT IT A LITTLE,DONT PULL IT RIGHT OUT AS THE WIRES ARE STILL CONNECTED!

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4. Disconnect the wires from the control switch by pushing really firmly in the middle of the plug (where the arrow is pointing) and then pull.

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5. Undo the 4 bolts holding the switch unit to the panel.

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Now you have your unit.

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6. Undo the remaining 3 bolts on the bottom of the window switch unit which hold it together.Simply pull off the button to lock the passenger window, because you have to, to take off the top plastic (note where the button would be in the pic above).

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Now you will see the circuit board and the top plastic, we are not interested in the circuit board.

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7. To get off the driver's window button, use two tiny flatheads and slide them inbetween the button and the main plastic surrounding it(where the arrows indicate) and then slowly pry up.

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8. When it pops off, you will first find there is this little springy item which is needed.... so now go find where it sprung off to... Also, I stretched the spring just a little to make the button extra tight...

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9. Now checkout the underside of the button, you will have to remove all the grease under there because superglue does not stick to it, I did it by wrapping a tissue around one of the small flat heads.

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10. Once all the grease is gone, you may notice a small crack, that is where the problem is being caused...

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11. To fix, simply apply superglue to the cracks and wait to dry. I used a mixture of tissue and tarzan superglue because I wanted to glue the plastic back together and then reienforce it, so i tried to make a sort if mini paper-mache, which did work. But just be aware, dont put glue/tissues in the little partition, as that is for the greasy spring.

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12. After it is all dry (I left mine for 10 mins) put the spring thing in the little hole with the white plastic facing out of the bottom of the button and then reassemble and put back into the car!

I hope this solved your problems as it did for mine, the switch is now much firmer and has two proper clicks. Even though it was a very minor thing, its the little things in life that count!

Adam

SLY-25T Mentor

SLY-25T

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nice work adam.

will have to do this soon as my switch, when pushed auto down, doesnt like to flick back into neutral position and just keeps making a clicking noise trying to engage the motor.

thanx mate!

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Astro Bear Veteran

Astro Bear

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Mate, FANTASTIC DIY.

My window switch has been playing up for the last few weeks and has been getting progressively worse. I was thinking about buying a whole new switch, but decided to try your DIY and it worked wonders. Now it works like it just rolled off the factory floor.

Thanks again! Very happy!

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d-ranged Enthusiast

d-ranged

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I have been having this problem and was looking at paying about £45 for a new part!!!

Had a look at mine and i have exact same problem and just waiting for it to dry now, hope it works!

Cheers mate.

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Black Turbs Explorer

Black Turbs

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Thanks for the tutorial, will be trying this today when I get home from work.

Also can someone please tell me the exactly how the drivers window button should function? eg- do you pull button up to wind down auto and push forward to raise window fully auto? As I have replaced the motor and mine is functioning like this!

mosquitocoils Veteran

mosquitocoils

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Push down, the window should go down. Push even harder down and it should click, and it will go auto down.

Pull back, and the window should go up. Pull even harder up and it should click, and will go auto up.

Black Turbs Explorer

Black Turbs

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Push down, the window should go down. Push even harder down and it should click, and it will go auto down.

Pull back, and the window should go up. Pull even harder up and it should click, and will go auto up.

Cheers for that, thats how I thought it should work. As Talbo said in another thread, the polarity must be wrong on my new motor. Which is weird as the plug only goes together one way.

Black Turbs Explorer

Black Turbs

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Cheers for that, thats how I thought it should work. As Talbo said in another thread, the polarity must be wrong on my new motor. Which is weird as the plug only goes together one way.

All my window problems are sorted now! Thankyou for the guide and all the helpful people out there!

  • 1 month later...
SKYL1N Mentor

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i will try this i hope it fixes my problem, my problem is that when it engages auto down it doesn't disengage and just keeps trying to push the window down after its already gone down, i can hear the motor ticking over trying to pull the glass down even more, hope this fixes the problem :P

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LANDSCRIBBLE Mentor

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Hey, i gave this tutorial a shot today. I must have stuffed something up because after i put the switch back on (after gluing etc) and plugged it back in to test it, the window went down, so i pulled the switch to move it up. and its now stuck in the down position lol.

I then pulled the switch off again and got that little white piece and pressed it into that other white thing its sits in (with some force), and still nothing.

Is there a way to hardwire it to make the window go up, just for the timebeing incase it rains?

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SLY333

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Fanastic write up mate, my power window switch wen putting down doesnt like to come back up to the position flush with the other button and just stays down i will definetly give this a go this weekend as it annoys the hell out of me, hopefully it will fix the clicky noise i tend to hear inside my door wen the window is down and the switch isnt at the flush position thanx again man great write up

SargeRX8 Grand Master

SargeRX8

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Awesome.

Gives my button a more tight, precise feel and also eliminated the window going up and down by it self. The way this switch works is a slider. The slider literally has no resistance so if your switch is broken to the shit, your window will go up and down to the slightest bumps. Fixed it up and my window now works in accordance with the controls. No more being retarded.

Note on a series 2 skyline, the power amplifier for the window control is built into the switch system. You don't need to undo anything. Just take the switch box off the mounting bracket and grip the driver window switch between your thumb and index finger and yank it off, glue it, pop it back on after 10 mins. Might be a little hard to press the switch the first time but just jam it where its gotta go.

Don't pull out the passenger lock button, it wont go back in my pressing it in. I had to melt a pin in to lock the switch, clip the button in then remove the pin.

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drunkn snail Community Regular

drunkn snail

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ok can someone help me, i did everything right put it back in and it was working sweet, then all of a sudden it goes back to how it was. i pulled it all out again streched the spring a bit and checked the cracks (no cracks) and now its still the same, except pulling up is a lot more stiff.

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