DS Rear window won't work.

[Cobra Jay]

Just picked my car up this afternoon from having the 3650 TSB done and when I put the top down my drivers side rear window won't go down. The other 3 will but not that one. At first I was thinking a fuse, but it doesn't make sence to me. Why would only one not be working. You'd think the engineers would be smart enough to run them off the same fuse. Or at least the 2 rear and 2 front off 2 seperate fuses. You never know though. I would look in my owners manual to see what fusees control the windows, but it's MIA. Anyone have any ideas or their manual handy that could tell me which fuse(s) are for the windows? I called my buddy at the dealer but he hasn't got back to me yet.


HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!

 

[GDawg]

Mine did that once before. I actually played with it, wiggleling it while I hit the down button. It finally went down and has worked ever since. (That was two years ago.)

 

[blackstalion666]

sounds to like either the motor went. or the switch. try cleaning the switch with contact cleaner and see if this helps. iv'e seen vert stangs come into work were the owner must have spilled somthing at one time. sometimes claning them cures the issue

 

[Kilgore Trout]

What mine does is: the rubber strip folds into the door and rubs the window which creates a drag on the window which seems to trip a overload cutout. After a while the motor works again. Happens especially when it is hot out. Don't let the rubber strip fold into the door.

 

[Cobra Jay]

sounds to like either the motor went. or the switch. try cleaning the switch with contact cleaner and see if this helps. iv'e seen vert stangs come into work were the owner must have spilled somthing at one time. sometimes claning them cures the issue

I'm guessing you're a Ford tech. Connections were clean. The only thing that could have possibly got in there was maybe a little rain water form running off the top from the door being opened. I don't drink anything, and I seldom smoke in my car.

I just had one of the electricans check to see if the switch was getting power on a volt meter and it showed that the switch was, and it was working. It doesn't seem like the motor is working.I was hoping that wasn't the problem! I'll call the dealer again in the morning and see what they say. Maybe I can take it in and have them look at it and see if the motor is bad then order a new one without having to leave my car. They just had it for almost 3 weeks for the trans, I don't want to not have it again for God knows how long!

I do love my car though!

What mine does is: the rubber strip folds into the door and rubs the window which creates a drag on the window which seems to trip a overload cutout. After a while the motor works again. Happens especially when it is hot out. Don't let the rubber strip fold into the door.

Never had that happen and I always put the windows down before I put the top back up.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Never had that happen and I always put the windows down before I put the top back up.

I mean the rubber strip inside the car at the bottom of the window. It has felt on the window side that slides against the window as it goes down. When it "flips in" the rubber part rubs against the window as it goes down and drags on the window bogging the motor. Not talking about anything on the conv top...

 

[Cobra Jay]

I mean the rubber strip inside the car at the bottom of the window. It has felt on the window side that slides against the window as it goes down. When it "flips in" the rubber part rubs against the window as it goes down and drags on the window bogging the motor. Not talking about anything on the conv top...

Like I said, I never had any problens with anything hanging up the windows. They always have worked smoothly and freely. I havn't had the rear windows down since the last time I had the top down, I'm guessing sometime last September.

 

[blackstalion666]

GT Jay get the motor yourself. it not that hard of an install. takes maybe a half an hour give or take ten minutes. save yourself the money . to bad your nowhere close to me i could have given you my ford discount.
but if you had the switch tested dont go to ford and only have to pay them to test it again and tell you what you already know. get the motor yourself and save some money for fun mods for your car.

 

[Cobra Jay]

GT Jay get the motor yourself. it not that hard of an install. takes maybe a half an hour give or take ten minutes. save yourself the money . to bad your nowhere close to me i could have given you my ford discount.
but if you had the switch tested dont go to ford and only have to pay them to test it again and tell you what you already know. get the motor yourself and save some money for fun mods for your car.

Thanks for the offer, but I work at Ford too and get my own discount. Not to mention it's not going to cost me a dime My car only has 10,??? miles on it and I've only had it just over a year! Plus I have an ESP, so I get a free loaner to beat on while Ford fixes my car!

 

[Cobra Jay]

Last night I worked 12 hours. So when I was on the way home (a little after 2:30 a.m.) Just for S&G's I tried to put down that window and the MF-er worked! Maybe it was the heat yesterday. I just hope it doesn't stop working on me one day and I get caught in the rain with the window down. That would suck ballz!