electrical gremlins

[Stephen Ankney]

Q-lister's,
Well after 2 years of ownership I have experienced my first electrical 
problem. Went to roll down all the windows in my 5000 today and all of them 
except the rear drivers side would go down..."thats weird" I thought..."I 
wonder if the back window switch will work?" Well it worked to roll the 
window down but it will not roll the window up...great. So there I was stuck 
with a window down all day and it's supposed to rain tonight. Stopped into 
my local car mechanic(Holland Imports)and they said I could get the window 
up by using a "jumper wire." So armed with that information I left and 
decided to stop at the local boneyard and stock up on some window 
switches...pulled off the door panel and checked the wiring...looks good. 
Also checked the wiring in the door hinge area...looked good also. Tried 
interchanging the used switches I got at the boneyard but they didnt work 
either...so I looked around for some spare wire and could'nt find any so 
back to the mechanics...they had everything sorted out in a few seconds and 
got the window up using the "jumper wire" technique...so at least I have the 
window up now...question is: where could the problem be? Mechanic thinks 
it's a bad window switch in the front and I tend to agree with him...only 
I'm wondering why this would affect the operation of the back switch? 
remember the back switch works only to bring the window down...it wont roll 
it up...and the front switch wont work at all for that window...hope you 
understand all this! Any ideas? I'm thinking of going to the junkyard again 
and getting one of those drivers side quad window switch control panels and 
intercahnging pieces and seeing if that makes a difference...am I on the 
right track?

Thanks,
Stephen Ankney
88 5000 80k
Holland, MI
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