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Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 1:47 pm 
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i pu the windows in my car yesterday, it was a pretty full on job, i used a fairmont wiring loom but cause my car is on gas i would have had to take the the tank out in order to run the wires all the way through to the boot, so i just chopped my loom and connected it with the fairmont one from that point. its a job you would want to do with a freind put it that way!

anyways all works fine except for the passenger rear window. it goes up with the rear switch but doesnt go down, when i earth the blue/green wire it goes up and down perfectly, but then the console switch only allows it to go down. when i connect the blue/green wire to the yellow/purple wire at the connector it also works fine from the switch but then it wont work at all from the console.

any suggestions on how to fix this problem? ive tried pretty much every alternative with the wires by earthing, connecting things together and nothing would work. so any ideas??

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Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 6:17 pm 
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have you checked that the rear window disable switch (part of console switch) is on?

 

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Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:14 pm 
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have u considered the possibility that the switch could be broken? if the door switch is broken, it is possible it will also affect the operation of the front switch
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Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:31 pm 
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Have you used one of those "Closed circuit testers"
which light up when theres a current and stay dark when u messed up
the wiring?

$2 bucks from the Warehouse...

 

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Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:47 pm 
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xpression wrote:
have u considered the possibility that the switch could be broken? if the door switch is broken, it is possible it will also affect the operation of the front switch


what do the door switchs have to do with power windows?

 

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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 7:40 am 
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test the switch with a multimeter...that will show if the switch is buggered...if it is, take it apart and clean the contatcts, that is usually the problem....
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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:07 am 
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fordzatmyplace wrote:
xpression wrote:
have u considered the possibility that the switch could be broken? if the door switch is broken, it is possible it will also affect the operation of the front switch


what do the door switchs have to do with power windows?


i think he means the switch that looks like a door for locking the rear power windows...

 

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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 3:00 pm 
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my problem was from the blue/red wire, it was disconnected somewhere in the loom, so i just re connected it from the door switch to the console.

im not very happy with the so called 'kit' i bought off here though, apparently all regulaotrs were genuine and all 'working'. two regulaotrs did not work (one genuine and one non genuine) what so ever, and two where non genuine. now the other non genuine one stopped going up so out of the 'complete' kit i bought i bought i ended up having to buy 3 regulators... not happy.

 

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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 3:03 pm 
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Where did you buy them from ??

Apologies if it's been mentioned, but I can't find it.

 

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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 3:32 pm 
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i bought them off neil, he said all were working and all where genuine... ah well thats what happens with second hand stuff i guess.... im not too worried that they werent working just that 2 were not genuine.

what cant you find?

 

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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 4:14 pm 
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fordzatmyplace wrote:
have you checked that the rear window disable switch (part of console switch) is on?


nah won't be that - it disables the windows completely, not only one way..

 

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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 6:16 pm 
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it'll be the switch most likely, clean the contacts with a wire brush (on the switch that doesn't work)
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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 6:31 pm 
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SileNceR wrote:
it'll be the switch most likely, clean the contacts with a wire brush (on the switch that doesn't work)


he has sorted it out! lol
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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:17 pm 
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hahaha thanks for being so keen guys but yeah like i said above the problem was from the blue/red wire being disconnected somewhere.

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