ARRRGH Help, Driver side window WONT go UP

Something that I've not seen mentioned in this thread yet for sticking electrical windows...

Cleaning and lubrication. Everyone who wrenches should have a tune of lithium or silicone grease hanging around the shop. A few loooooooooooooooong q-tips is a good idea too. Mechanicals behind the door panel should be lubed any time you have occasion to get in there. Doesn't take long to do this.

Door panel switches can also be carefully taken apart, sprayed with contact cleaner, and reassembled.

I've bought a number of window switch panels from junkyards over the years and nearly all of them failed to operate until disassembled and cleaned.

Window motors can sometimes be resurrected as well. A little liquid wrench followed by silicone spray into the motor housing (drill a small hole if you can't find one) often works.

Nothing will bring back a motor that has burned or broken brushes short of a rebuild or replacement.

03_TrueBlue_GT said:

Since it is hot as H E double LL down here my driver side window wont go down at all until the interior of the car is cooler. I just push the switch up and down as fast as possible till it finally goes down,. It really is a strange thing that happens but as long as my window works Im good. So Noobz are you saying to put lithium grease directly on the switches to help with this? Also its the switches on these cars that is bad and not the motors? or can it go either way?

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It can go either way. On the door switches themselves, the contacts can corrode and prevent them from working. Take them apart until you see the contact and contact pads (ensure you take note of how they go back together). Clean and lubricate the contacts then reassemble. Contact cleaner works. Fingernail polish remover works. On occasion, I've had to resort to some fine sand paper to run between the contacts and pads. Then lubricate with lithium grease or a silicone based spray (I've used both, whatever was available and within reach at the time).

I use lithium grease on all the mechanicals inside of the door panel. It takes just one stubborn joint or pivot to screw up the whole works.

I've used the silicon spray to free up motors that were otherwise seized. Often there's a hole somewhere you can get the little straw into. Other times, I've drilled a small hole into the case (large enough to get the straw into) and sprayed the crap out of it to get things going again.

These are just things to try before having to pull and replace door parts. I've been pretty fortunate. Only come across one window motor so far that was non-recoverable and needed to be replaced.