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Window Switch Travails and Solution

posted by  Steve on  Tue Jan 13 16:22 CST 2009
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Wife had told me, deep in the recesses of my mind, that the front driver door window switch was intermittent. I ignored it until this morning when, in minus 8 F weather, I rolled the window down at a Mickie D's drive through only to find it would not go back up. Wonderful: frostbite in sixty seconds of driving. I made it the mile back home, pried loose the switch carrier and raised it up, pulled the wire out and connected it to a new switch. It worked: the window raised, giving me some time to get me and the plastic warm so I could repair the carrier with a new switch. My hands were about a minute from frostbite.

From now on, I am going to carry a working, used switch in the car so I can do this swap on an emergency basis. The window ALWAYS fails at the worst possible time: freezing cold or pouring rain. It's easy to pry up the carrier and connect a temporary switch, giving you a closed car until you can get it home and repair at your leisure.
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    Window Switch Travails and Solution

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    posted by  Art Benstein on  Tue Jan 13 23:59 CST 2009
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    Hi Steve,

    We weren't aware your bricks ever needed work.

    Did you coach your wife in the emergency window switch swap? Mine would have correctly suggested I fix it right the first time, and carry gloves in the glove box for emergencies.

    As to fixing it right the first time, I would have ignored her advice and continued to rehab the switch, repeating the routine when it gets to needing more than a dozen tries with varied oomph before operating the window. Somehow I figure the BB would tell me to buy(!) a new switch.
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      Window Switch Travails and Solution

      posted by  Steve on  Wed Jan 14 01:09 CST 2009
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      I took the switch apart last night. It reminded me why buying a new switch, and not futzing around trying to fix the old one, makes sense. When you clean up the contacts, you invariably sand off the plating. The resulting "fix" lasts maybe three months and then you are stuck yet again. Now that FCPGroton and others have cheapie aftermarket switches for around $12, repairing them makes no sense.

      And my "perfect" cars? In winter, I tend to let things slide since my unheated garage is like Stalingrad. The first warm weekend in the Spring is spent on the cars.
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        Window Switch Travails and Solution

        posted by  walrus3 on  Wed Jan 14 03:34 CST 2009
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        ".....my unheated garage is like Stalingrad."
        I guess it beats Novosibirsk.
        My associates up in SD tell me I have it good here in Okieland.
        What kind of car do you have?
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          Window Switch Travails and Solution

          posted by  Steve on  Wed Jan 14 06:30 CST 2009
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          90-745 NA; two 95-940 turbos; one 92-940 turbo. Nephew had a 92-940 but sold it. At one time we were running five nearly identical cars.

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