Ok, so I was putting blue LEDs in my passenger window switch/door lock switch and I bumped the leads from an LED on the circuit board somewhere, it sparked and popped, and now the window switch doesn't work from that switch OR the master switch on the driver's side... THEN i was poking around in the driver's side master switch wiring with a voltage tester, and when i stabbed one of those wires the passenger window started to come down!!! And now I can't roll it back up! Does anyone know of a way I can simply roll it up? If I buy a new passenger switch that should fix the problem right? Because I think I may have just fried something on the circuit board... I'd just really rather not buy a whole new switch

 

if it works as you said when you power id directly then you may have just screwed up the switch. You could try to see if someone can rebuild/repair it.
A new one is very pricey

 

Stupid question #1: Di you chek your fuses?

 

Yeah, i checked the fuses cuz i've blown a few before doing stuff ... it's not that because when I stabbed one of the driver's side switch wires with a voltage tester the window rolled down on the passenger side! so weird! I think it's just the switch... but here's my new problem: I went in to the dealership today to order a new switch (mine is a combo circuit board for window switch AND door lock switch on the passenger side) but in their computer at the dealership it shows that they're 2 separate switches. It's an '02. GYEAHH!!!

 

sounds like when you stabbed the wire you must have completed the circuit and rolled down the window. i bet you had the ground stabbed in somewhere else also when this happened.if so you could make a jumper to roll it back up?

 

well, i had the voltage tester grounded but that's it... i didn't realize that would complete any circuits... how do you make a jumper for that??

 

unplug the switches before you solder...

 

i wasn't soldering anything in the switches... just accidentally touched the metal from the LED on the board and it sparked...

 

simple 6 inch section of wire strip both ends and use it to complete circuit.

 

swap a switch with the same year.
give them your vin nr. and they will find it

 

yeah, they had my vin number and looked it up... the parts guy ordered what he thought may be the part but it wasn't illustrated on his computer program... there was a part # but he wasn't sure if it's the right one cuz strangely, there's no picture... we'll see if it's the right part.

 

I just used a voltage tester that has a wire you clamp to metal and it lights up when you stab a wire with current running through it... can it actually ground a wire that doesn't have a current running through it if you poke it??