[V8] Window problems

[Kneale Brownson]

If you find a broken wire in the harness, there probably are half a dozen
more ready to break.  The real repair is to replace all the wires (except
maybe the speaker wires) going through the door jamb.  It's a tedious but
not complicated process.  You remove the door panel, remove the kick panel
in the cabin, cut a bunch of 18-20-inch lengths of the appropriate sized
wire, cut one in the kick panel area and crimp a length onto the stub in
the cabin, feed it through the doorjamb, cut the same one in the door, well
inside the jamb area, and crimp again.  Good quality butt connectors of
appropriate size and a good ratcheting crimper will get the wire part of
the work done in a couple of hours.  Door/kick panel removal/reinstallation
will add some to that.  If you carefully mark the location of the adjuster
screws on the door/panel, you don't have to do much fussing when you
reinstall the panel, and if you carefully mark where the wires/switches go
in the door, that part isn't too difficult either.

At 07:02 AM 4/1/2005 -0500, Kent McLean wrote:
>Greg Furstenwerth wrote:
>> I dont know though its odd there is power to 3/4 windows
>> on drivers side and Right/Left rear windows work. The Passenger window
>> does not work by the switch on drivers side and only goes down by
>> passenger side it goes in and out of working. 
>
>Very common.  Usually broken wires in the rubber boot of the
>driver's door. This would affect your windows and power seat
>memory switch. See:
><http://www.audifans.com/twiki/bin/view/Audi/PowerWindowInoperative>
>and
><http://www.audifans.com/twiki/bin/view/Audi/PowerWindowTemporaryFix>
>
>> The boot in the door jam how do you get access to
>> the inside of that? 
>
>The end of the boot has a lip or channel into which the
>door sheet metal fits. Just push on the side of the boot
>at the door (or jamb) and it should move the rubber channel
>away from the sheet metal.  Work your way around until it
>is free.
>
>> If you have any
>> ideas of how to get in there or how you did it as I hear people have
>> searched inside these and found this wire problem. 
>
>You shouldn't have to get in behind the door panel, unless
>you find the window regulator is broken. I repaired my wiring
>just by working in the tight space between the door and the
>jamb.
>
>--
>Kent McLean
>'94 100 S Avant, "Moody"
>'89 200 TQ, "Bad Puppy" up in smoke
>'56 Austin-Healey 100 BN2, for sale
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