Switches R'Us

[Al Powell]

Hey friends, last weekend I spent a couple of hours in a rewarding switch 
repair exercise.  About four of the power window switches on my 1990 200 had 
stopped working in one or another direction (up or down).

I just received some Deoxit and proGold from Caig Labs, so I pulled all those 
switches - treated each set of contacts with Deoxit and proGold, then 
re-installed.  EVERY one works fine now. I then thought of the rear defroster 
switch, which hasn't worked in six months.  Pulled it and cleaned it up (wow, 
it was filthy! Green sticky stuff on the contacts, and we don't smoke), then 
treated with Deoxit and ProGold, and now it works like a charm.

That's probably $150-$200 worth of switches (at retail) fixed for $25 worth 
of contact enhancing chemicals.  Not a bad deal.  Also fixed a power window 
switch on my Ford pickemuptruck which had similar problems.

Highly recommended for those who have balky switches!

The pesky part is getting the switches out of the door panels - and popping 
the interior part of the switch out of the housing. But once you get the hang 
of it (around switch two or three) it's not bad.

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Al Powell
Fort Collins, CO
powellae at home.com
cougfan1 at gocougs.wsu.edu
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