Electric Windows Opening Uncommanded

[jonnyp]

Hi All,

 

Searched the site for this one with little success, so any thoughts would be much appreciated!

 

My wife used our 2007 mk111 on Saturday evening, parked up at home and locked the car as normal with all windows closed. She then went to the car on Sunday morning to find all the windows down. The car was still locked and the alarm armed, it went off when one of my kids put their hand in through the window!

 

She used the car again on Sunday afternoon, on completing her journey, she turned the engine off and removed the key and the offside rear window started to go up and down by itself. It stopped after about 4 cycles and the car was locked without further incident.

 

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

 

Jon

[aahinf]

Hi All,

 

Searched the site for this one with little success, so any thoughts would be much appreciated!

 

My wife used our 2007 mk111 on Saturday evening, parked up at home and locked the car as normal with all windows closed. She then went to the car on Sunday morning to find all the windows down. The car was still locked and the alarm armed, it went off when one of my kids put their hand in through the window!

 

She used the car again on Sunday afternoon, on completing her journey, she turned the engine off and removed the key and the offside rear window started to go up and down by itself. It stopped after about 4 cycles and the car was locked without further incident.

 

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

 

Jon

 

Jon,

 

I would love to hear if you got any response to this. My wife took our mk3 59 plate out today and told me all of the windows came down to varying degrees by the time she got back to the car - all by themselves after the car was locked. Its baking hot here and no rain for days. Been searching everywhere and there are responses about wet circuits etc, but that can't be the case here. Hope it was an isolated case for you and all now resolved.

 

Any advice from other forum people gratefully received.

 

Thanks,

 

Tony

[scooper1]

I would guess the key got pressed in pocket trigger the global opening. then car relocked and rearmed leaving windows open

[jonnyp]

Hi All,

 

Searched the site for this one with little success, so any thoughts would be much appreciated!

 

My wife used our 2007 mk111 on Saturday evening, parked up at home and locked the car as normal with all windows closed. She then went to the car on Sunday morning to find all the windows down. The car was still locked and the alarm armed, it went off when one of my kids put their hand in through the window!

 

She used the car again on Sunday afternoon, on completing her journey, she turned the engine off and removed the key and the offside rear window started to go up and down by itself. It stopped after about 4 cycles and the car was locked without further incident.

 

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

 

Jon

 

Jon,

 

I would love to hear if you got any response to this. My wife took our mk3 59 plate out today and told me all of the windows came down to varying degrees by the time she got back to the car - all by themselves after the car was locked. Its baking hot here and no rain for days. Been searching everywhere and there are responses about wet circuits etc, but that can't be the case here. Hope it was an isolated case for you and all now resolved.

 

Any advice from other forum people gratefully received.

 

Thanks,

 

Tony

[jonnyp]

Hi Tony,

 

Nothing to add I am affraid. With regard to the global opening button, I am fairly confident that it was nothing to do with the button being inadvertently pushed as it needs to be pressed and held for a short while. I guess there is a possibility that the remote has a fault but it has not happened again since!

 

Sorry I can't help further.

 

Jon

[lewie]

you will prob have to get a vagcom scan done to see if there is any error codes with regards to global opening/closing

[MadBaz]

you will prob have to get a vagcom scan done to see if there is any error codes with regards to global opening/closing

 

Did't think vagcom would work on mk3 as it's completely ford.

 

On my old Mk1, the windows came down due to broken/shorting wiring in the tailgate gaiter activating global open/close, I suppose that similar could happen with wiring in the front door gaiters.