Rear Door window switches - oops it's a 4000 - please helpKneale because I can't

[Kneale Brownson]

Thanks, Tom.  You're right that I failed to identify the 4k car.  I've
looked at Huw's site but didn't find anything specific about rear door
switches.

At 04:36 PM 7/14/2004 -0600, tom winter wrote:
>Sorry, Kneale. I didn't realize you were talking about a 4000. Your post
>never mentioned the model (or I missed that), and I was just trying to be
>helpful. Of course you would have swapped switches to try to resolve the
>problem if that was possible.
>
>I had an '86 4000 once but never experienced this problem. But Huw seems to
>know a lot about the 4000. He might be of help. Hopefully he'll respond to
>your post.
>
>And thanks for pointing out to me there are a lot of differences in the 4000
>vs the 5000. I never would have guessed ;-)
>
>Anyone out there have the info that Kneale is looking for? Here are details
>of his problem:
>I got the classic window down, won't go back up syndrome.
>
>Switch (driver rear door) has  Yellow,  Red/Black,  Yellow/Green,
>Blue/Black and Brown wires soldered to the back of it.
>
>With the key on, I've got 12 volts on the Yellow, Red/Black and
>Yellow/Green wires.  Does the switch make a circuit through the motor to
>ground?  Can I just put a ground on one of the three with power already to
>make the window go up?  I tried taking the rocker off the switch and
>soaking the innards with contact cleaner, but that didn't help.
>
>Do I need to do something with the switch in the console instead?
>
>Once again, Kneale - Best of Luck. Hope the rain doesn't come pouring in
>before the problem is sorted out.
>
>tom
>
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