[V8] Subject: Re: Window operation troubleshooting

[Ingo Rautenberg]

My guess (and I realise I'm late to the party) is you have either a broken
wire in the driver's door jam wiring or the rear window lockout switch is
bad.

Ingo

On Aug 22, 2010 11:02 PM, "NIck Miller" <chance9121 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, a quick update. I got the rear Passenger side door out today, and took
> apart the regulator so I could pull the motor out separately. Took it into
> "The Lab" and opened it up. Everything was rusted/seized up pretty bad.
> So I pulled it all apart, PB blaster, naval jelly, and a disc sander, and
a
> few other things and got it clean as a whistle, put it back together and
> hooked it up to the car battery and it sung like it was new. Great.
>
> Got it back together with the regulator, ran the window up and down and it
> worked great. So, I then got the door back together, which took a little
> while, and guess what! Doesn't work.
>
> So, the light to either rear window switch doesn't come on at all, so I'm
> guessing there is no power to the rear windows, which is maybe why the
> motors seized, from not ever being used. The front switches all light up,
> as does the passenger side front.
>
> Any thoughts here guys? I'm going to apply power to the motor tomorrow
> again and verify it does still work now, and check a few other things, but
> other than Fuses, any ideas?
>
> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 7:31 PM, NIck Miller <chance9121 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, one of my window motors is for sure seized... I took apart the rear
>> left passenger door and got the window motor off the regulator, the
stator
>> and rotor, I think it is, were rusted together. Got the center section
out
>> and I'm using my disc sander on it. The magnets come apart too, so
>> hopefully I can fix it... we shall see. If not, need a new motor... Looks
>> like both back ones are seized, not sure how so much moisture got in
them,
>> maybe came back through the "drain" thing that doesn't seem to work.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 7:11 PM, <bw at udel.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Don't forget there is a Rear Window Lockup on the driver's door control
>>> panel. It is
>>> a long button.
>>>
>>> I have a problem of intermittent window and sunroof operation. It works
>>> and then
>>> won't operate. Later they come back to life. Maybe a power thing,
because
>>> it comes
>>> back after time. This car also has a hot start problem that is
>>> intermittent. I believe
>>> the sensor work because they are new, but maybe a wiring problem or ECU.
I
>>> can't
>>> test it myself. Bob
>>>
>>
>>
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