power window stuck!

[coco69]

hey guys,

my passengers power window is stuck! and its stuck open!

doesn't wanna close!

it was playing up before like it would work on some car starts and not on others, but now, over the last 20 or so times i started the car, the window doesn't wanna work!

and its stuck open!

any ideas as to what i could do to get it up before ripping the door apart?

its so annoying

thanx!

[skyline33]

try taking the switch out and cleaning it with wd40

[benm]

coco: Join the club mate its frustrating i know.

I bought my car almost 4mths ago, when i first got it everything was 100%. About 1mth into it the driver-side window would sorta work when it wanted too. I'd just give a gentle whack to the electric window switch/buttons on the driver-side door and it would "all of a sudden" start working again and/or open/close my door and it would work.

But now 2mths later my driver-side door just refuses to work (luckily its closed completely). I've taken the 2 little circuit boxes out and had a look at them, the 1 with the faulty switch has afew dirty looking solder joints on it which i suspect is what the problem is but im yet to find a replacement.

(Gonna try JustJap tomorrow when they re-open).

[coco69]

argh its so annoying!

thanks for the input all.

looks like i gotta take the door apart tommorow morning coz nothing seems to be working.

far out, i got work in the afternoon and goin shopping with a girl in the morning... can't park the car with one window down!!!

bloody hell...grrrRRR~!

[benm]

Fixed my problem today and it took me all of 20mins and $0.

The problem was 3 loose wires that connect to the black box motor inside the door frame. I put them back in and wrapped about 4 metres of tape around it to secure them in place then put it through its paces of about 30 up/downs and it didn't miss a beat.

[coco69]

omg - well i kinda fixed mine... well sorta...

me and a buddy used an external 12v supply and connected it straight to the motor for the windows... wihtout doing so, the windows were pretty much locked down and unable to be moved up, but connecting an external 12v power to the motor allowed the window to be pulled up with alot of difficulty.

weird though, coz when using a multimeter to check to see if current was running through the existing connection, it showed a smooth approx. 12v or so. meaning that with all original connections there should be no reason why the windows dont work. so why the switch didn't work was beyond us? the window was only moveable when using an external 12v power source.

but anyway, my windows are now about 98% up, without only a few millimeters of gap for rain water to get it, but luckily i have the rain slats over the windows.

good thing i didn't take those ugly slats off... even though they're all sh!tty and faded. basically after all this bordem, my windows are almost up and completely stuck! at least i can park my car at places now. w00t~!

[Pva_Glue]

have you check the selenoids? machanisms that detects the window position...

cheers

Joe