One day, I expressed up my driver's side window. It went all the way up at it should, then came back down about 1/4 of the way. It was carried by the motor, and is infinitely repeatable. It is not "falling" into the door.

When I bought the car, it didn't have a manual, so I don't know if this is programmable or not.

 

Not exactly sure what you are saying there, but keep in mind our windows have an anti-pinch feature which makes it automatically go down when it senses an obstruction.

 

I remember seeing a similar thread before, I have this same problem and haven't gotten around to fixing it. As far as I remember, it had something to do with cleaning the switch or something like that.

I've tried searching but haven't found anything, yet.

 

With the anti-pinch, it almost sounds like the window is traveling too far (if that's possible) and seeing the top of the window frame as the obstruction, causing it to go down.

 

Pikers. This happened to me once when somebody broke into my Maxima. The window would not roll all the way up anymore. I had to bring it back to the dealer to fix it. Good luck.

 

Try spraying some silicone lubricant inside the tracks. The rubber may be dried up forcing the window to travel with force. This happened to me once, and it worked like a charm. But, if it continues to drop down 1/4 way from the top, you are going to have to reset the switch.

 

How does one do that?

 

I'm not sure, but I believe there's a reset switch inside the door panel near the power window harness. I had never did it before, but I remember reading from a post that somebody had done it before.

 

Driver window one touch up RESET procedure - TIP!!



With the help of the technical service manual on CD produced by Nissan on the 2002 and 2003 Maxima I now have located the quick fix for a problem I have had since purchasing my used 2002 SE a few months ago. That is the drivers door window one-touch up function for the window was not working properly. The window would go up to the top and then retreat about 5 inches back down again. This problem is due to the limit switch needing to be reset which at first I thought would be a considerable job (to take off the door panel etc.) but ended up being literally a 2 minute job as the door panel can remain in place. My dealer wanted $85 CDN for the switch reset which I knew was a rip off before I found the fix procedure myself. I know several '02 and '03 Maxima owners have had this same problem as I saw earlier threads referencing it but no-one then appeared to know the fix. Alhough this procedure is simple once you do it, my description seems long as I wanted to be a descriptive as possible since I can't provide pictures. So here it is:

Step 1: Pry the plastic cap up off the bottom centre of the door pull handle and remove the single philips screw.

Step 2: Remove the whole switch panel (in which the door pull handle sits) by prying it up from the back end either with a flat edged screwdriver or table knife (under cloth) or by hand which is what I did. It is just clipped in so should come out relatively easily sliding it up at the back and then pulling it back.

You can now see the inside of the door from where the switch finishing plate sat. You can leave the wiring all attached and simply hang the switch and handle plastic assembly to one side so you can see the inside of the door.

Look inside towards the front bottom of the door behind the plastic vapour barrier you will see a small black switch. It almost looks like a black pan screw head. This is the reset switch but there is a sequence to now doing the actual reset procedure. The switch doesn't really feel like one when you press it through the plastic liner which incidentally you don't need to cut (at least I didn't have to). It is a switch that is only on when you are pressing it otherwise when released it is off.

STEP 3: Make sure the window is closed (up) completely. Turn the ignition on so the windows are receiving power.

a) Press the reset switch (and keep it pressed in) and open (down) the window completely (manually -NOT with AUTO ONE TOUCH DOWN FUNCTION).
b) Release the reset switch. Then close the window completely (manually only - NOT AUTO UP).
c) The limit switch is now reset. Easy!!!

This procedure worked for me straight away as I hope it will for you should you have this annoying problem. The Nissan manual does caution you not to use the one touch UP-DOWN function during this procedure so be warned.

 

It's a common problem with 5.5 gens. I followed the reset procedure above ^ and it worked perfectly.

 

Yup, worked for me too. I've had to do it twice now. Once for each window. Hasn't failed since.

 

does this procedure apply to 2k and 2k1's?

 

This is why the Org rocks. I'll do this tomorrow AM.

 

Happened to my passenger side about 3-4 months ago. Reset it and it works like a champ now.

 

I am really sorry to bring this thread back from the grave but I tried the yahoo search and couldnt find any other info on whether or not this work for 2000/01 models. I pulled up the switches but cannot find the reset switch. Can I get more direction on where it is or if it even works for me? Thanks in advance.

 

Yeah I followed the same procedure for mine last week and it worked perfectly!

 

I was wondering about this window thing, thought I was the only one. I fixed mine today, awesome.

 

Just asking the same question someone asked before and it wasn't answered... Does this procedure work for 2k-2k1??? Please help, thanks.

 

Well my prob. is sort of different, check it out...I have a 00 max. and none on my windows will go down or up, I used to just fiddle with the fuse under the hood, and it worked, but not anymore, they won't go up AT ALL, any suggestions on this? Is it a relay problem, cause NONE of my switches works, the auto seat adjust, or the power locks....Any suggestions??

 

that actually sounds liek a fuse issue, or an issue with the SECU.

IIRC, fuses 1, 10 (or was it 12), and 13 are good to check.

eh, check em all. good luck