Re: window help needed ASAP /Binghamton NY area listers?

[Wallace White <wallace@remdesign.com>]

> << I need help ASAP with my 91 100, drivers window is stuck halfway down,
> switch
>  will work going down, yet when press for up only buzzing.  Car will be
> parked
>  outside in rainy binghamton weather. I have no tools what can i do? anyway
> to
>  shut window until later time manually?
>   >>
> 
> its NOT the switch because when you push the switch you can hear the
> regulator turning, and the window goes down , and tries to go up, but doesnt.
> so obviously the switch works.   i have the same prob in the front pass
> window of my red '86 5kT (the beatermobile ;<).

Even if you hear a click or buzz, it still may be the fault of the
switch. If the switch has enough resistance that it has a considerable
voltage drop across it when closed--remember that the regulator's full
current is carried by the switch--it may not leave enough voltage for
the regulator motor to move the window up.

This has been the case on my sunroof switch and window switches. The
switches don't just work or not work; they get a little worse and worse,
slowing the window down until it can't move.

Good luck, Ian. Hope it's just a dirty switch in your case!

- Wallace
  '87 5kcstq 161k