Electric windows not working.

trentvy · #1 23-08-2008, 10:21 AM

probably been a thread about this guys but cant for the life of me find it in the seach. But my rear electric windows will go down but require a few hard pushes to go up. this happens on both rear windows, and its confusing me because the controls for the windows in the front of the car will make the rears go up and down fine. Im not too great with this stuff, but should I get new switches?
cheers fellas

andtan · #2 31-08-2008, 08:14 AM

Mate,
Try pulling the rear switches out, and carefully dismantling them. The switches can either have grime on the contacts, which prevents a clean circuit, or they get dirty from arcing.

W84N01 · #3 31-08-2008, 11:00 AM

Same thing happened in my VC, took the door panels off and saw the motor for the windows had come loos and was making it harder to push up the windows.

And also whilst the windows are down, there is a product specifically to sorta oil up the window sills and runners to help with the windows sliding up and down.

Get some of that and make sure you wipe all of the window sills and whilst you have the door panels off, make sure you get it into the tracks aswell.

You shouldn't have a problem then anymore...............hope this helps

trentvy · #4 31-08-2008, 11:40 AM

thanks guys, do you recommend like a contact cleaner or something for cleaning?