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Window won't roll down, but it's not the motor

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Old 09-19-2017, 12:55 AM
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Window won't roll down, but it's not the motor

I know the window motors go bad on our cars, so much so that it should have been a recall item, but whatevs. So, my driver window all the sudden stopped working, and I thought automatically that it was the motor (it's the original after all, so I thought it had a good run), but then I thought to try the auto-down function from the fob and then the auto-up function with the driver key hole and both worked fine.

Anyone ever had yer actual window switch go bad? I can't find any of this nonsense for our cars.
 
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Old 09-20-2017, 12:56 PM
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So, it started working again, but now it won't automatically do the 1/2" up when I close the door. I CAN however force it to go the 1/2" up with the key. Very strange.
 
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Old 09-20-2017, 02:02 PM
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I never used the auto - up/down feature, somehow it always triggers that dilemma at least with my experience.
 
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Old 09-20-2017, 03:03 PM
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Recalibrate the motor, very similar to what my driver side window did. As components wear it creates a little slack that throws the whole system off.
 
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Old 09-20-2017, 10:15 PM
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Recalibrate the motor, very similar to what my driver side window did. As components wear it creates a little slack that throws the whole system off.
Yeah, I think I'll try the reset. It made sense for it to be the switch up until it stopped doing the 1/2" up thing. I'll give it a shot!
 
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Mine first did the "drop 6 inches if you roll it up all the way" thing, then it did the "stop dropping 1/2" when the door is open" thing, finally it did the "I refuse to roll up anymore" thing and I replaced it but it had a nice long death cycle, I was able to reset and fix the first two.
 


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