power window fix

[maozebong]

so, if anyone here is suffering from lack of windows in their dl/gl/loyale like i was today, i have a tidbit of information for the next guy who uses the search feature.

 

today, i had no drivers window at all after coming back from lunch. after cleaning the contacts and checking everything out, i found nothing. further into tracing wires for 5 hours, i found the splices for the window power and ground. under the carper right below where the front passenger would put their feet is a crimp splice. by cutting and resoldiering the connection, it fixed my slow and intermittently functioning (from the master window switch panel) passenger window, and my extremely slow rear windows. (so slow i had to help them up!)

 

 

i know, most of the time, people post their woes on the tech boards, but today i post my success and share the knowledge for the next poor bastard to lose his windows out of nowhere because of a little rotted splice.

[Storydude1]

Another common location on later legacy's is inside the rubber boot between door and body. I've had 2 wagons that wires were fractured inside that boot.

[maozebong]

that's where i suspected first, honestly. but that's not by any means manufacturer specific. any car with 20+ years of opening and closing the drivers door on a daily basis is going to have that issue.

[Gloyale]

That crimp under the seat is a common problem.

 

It's been discussed here before, but somehow isn't in the USRM????

 

I did notice AKghandi talks about it at the end of Txakura's power window thread. (that thread covers door jam wire breakage)

 

Someone should take a picture while there carpet is out, to add it to the USRM.

[AKghandi]

Woot! Im famous!

 

I also went striaght for the door jam. I actually pulled the whole door off took it inside pulled the whole harness out, tested every wire, and rebuilt all 4 switches.

 

Just to find out it was that plastic crimp under the carpet..you know ive got a parts car maybe ill go cut the carpet out and get a pic for the usrm.

[maozebong]

yeah, i did the same thing too. stripped down my whole drivers door harness, rebuilt and cleaned the master window switch, and all that.... but oddly enough, during my search, i only found 2 threads mentioning the crimp.

 

resoldering both the power (red wires) and ground (black) crimps under the carpet does worlds for how well my windows worked. i totally agree, this should be added to the USRM. it never hurts to have more information in there, it only hurts to have a lack thereof.