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Old Oct 15, 2003 | 09:32 PM
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cant operate windows from driver side

ok this just happen to me one day i went to open windows and i couldnt only i could open was mine the one on the driver side. The weird thing is that im able to close the windows but cant open them. I havent had time to check it out but its pretty annyoing. I was wondering if this ever happen to someone before.
Old Oct 15, 2003 | 10:18 PM
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Originally Posted by David89Max
ok this just happen to me one day i went to open windows and i couldnt only i could open was mine the one on the driver side. The weird thing is that im able to close the windows but cant open them. I havent had time to check it out but its pretty annyoing. I was wondering if this ever happen to someone before.

bad master switch. junkyard should have one for really cheap...
Old Oct 16, 2003 | 09:54 AM
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i HAD MY WINDOW TINTED BACK IN MAY, AND THE SHOP DIDNT HOOK MY FRONT PASSENGER WINDOW SWITCHES BACK UP, I COUNLDNT USE MY POWER DOOR LOCK OR THAT WINDOW, IT SUCKED FOR ABOUT A MOUNTH IT THOUGHT I WAS SCEWED, SO I STARTED TAKING THE DOOR APART AND SAW THE THE CONNECTOR WAS OFF, THANK GOD IT WAS JUST THAT.
Old Oct 16, 2003 | 01:00 PM
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Yeah, sounds like a problem with your switch assembly. It needs to be able to reverse the polarity to roll down. Do the individual switches work for up & down on the other doors?
You should be able to probe the wires at the master switch with a meter to confirm that it is bad.
Old Oct 16, 2003 | 01:03 PM
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If your problem turns out to be a bad master switch, I have a good working one, pm me for more info if you want it.
Old Oct 17, 2003 | 01:48 AM
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Originally Posted by David89Max
ok this just happen to me one day i went to open windows and i couldnt only i could open was mine the one on the driver side. The weird thing is that im able to close the windows but cant open them. I havent had time to check it out but its pretty annyoing. I was wondering if this ever happen to someone before.
First of all, do you ever read your own questions before you post? It can be real pain in the butt when you write crappy-#ss posts that we can't understand properly!

Had the opposite happen to me - drivers window would roll down but not back up again - unless you smacked the door panel a few hundred times. Seeing as new master switch is NZ$340, I worked out that it was one of the relays on the circuit board that was faulty. I replaced both for NZ$9 total with new relays from a RadioShack equivalent
I'm hoping to post the "how-to" on switch repair in a few days.
If you can't roll windows down from individual switches, it's the master switch.
Old Oct 19, 2003 | 01:22 AM
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To nismobaron, Did you ever post the switch repair????
I tried to repair a switch once. Cleaned the contacts in the two relays, and replaced some of the those stupid surface capacitors that looked like ther were leaking. Would work sometimes.
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