Window switch locks the doors?

[idosubaru]

2002 Outback H6 VDC

 

When I use the drivers side window - all 4 door locks are activating.  Quits doing it when the car is off I believe.

 

I suppose this means the drivers side door master switch is going bad.....buy everything works fine - all buttons work - i just have the added "feature" of the doors locking (or is it unlocking) when I use the window switch.

[mikaleda]

Maybe the lock linkage is getting caught when you roll the window up and locking your door making the others lock? Weird.

[johnceggleston]

sounds like a wiring short worn insulation, bare copper wire exposed on 2 wires maybe.

probably where the wires go from the chassis, a-pillar, to the door it self.

 

the reason it does not do it when the car is off is because the windows have no power when the car is off.

[Fairtax4me]

Second what John said. Pinched or chaffed wires, probably in the flexible section between the door and a-pillar. See if it does the same when the door is open.

[idosubaru]

sounds like a wiring short worn insulation, bare copper wire exposed on 2 wires maybe.

probably where the wires go from the chassis, a-pillar, to the door it self.

 

the reason it does not do it when the car is off is because the windows have no power when the car is off.

 

ah short - i forgot i had left the windows down in the rain earlier last night...like an hour or two before i drove it....didn't do it right away so it was dry and i had forgotten about that by the time it started acting funny. 

 

i'll open the panel and let it dry out while i'm doing front suspension stuffs today.