Posessed Window!

[CM2007]

Now all the snow has finally cleared and the car is back in proper use, it seems to have developed a drivers window with a mind of it's own.

The other day when my wife started the car, the window went down about 2/3 of the way all by itself. She pressed up on the button but nothing happened. When she came back and went to lock the car, she held the key to the lock position so the conveinience closing may have closed it but again, nothing. Then again yesterday when I went to have a look at it, I switched the ignition on and it went nearly back to the top except about an inch. I wiggled the wires and kept switching the ignition but still no luck. When she went out earlier, it went all the way down by itself again and it won't go back up.

 

I'm going to strip the door tomorrow to have a look but I wonderd if anyone else has had anything similar and whether I can look for something?

I am aware the door looms are often at fault as one of the rear windows don't work but i wonder if I might have a short somewhere or bad earth which may be connecting power to the motor of it's own accord.

 

Any thoughts would be a great help.

 

Cheers

Mike

[cyborg]

try excommunication

 

 

or a wiggle your sticky switchs , possibly stuck sending messahes to ecu

 

 

my moneys on the preist

[gregers]

frayed wires in the door pillar,check out the faqs.

[sie]

frayed wires in the door pillar,check out the faqs.

look in the loom between the piller and the door as the wires brake and opening and closing the door will cause it to short ie when you turn the ignition on, usualy the brown wire .

[CM2007]

Thanks for the replies. I did a few tests tonight and found that even bridging the connections didn't work so it's not the switch as it would seem there is no power getting to the switch and when the window does it's thing it's quite jerky and not smooth at all so it's the broken wire/short theory.

 

I'll strip the door out tomorrow (weather permitting) and have a look

 

Mike