Thread: Repair Your Power Windows Switch[*]

By all means Scott
Help your self to it it is here in order to help
others out.. i learned the hard way,
was told i would have to buy the motor and rip my door apart
and the price for all this really got me to lookin.
The G.M. PPL said that the window controls were $250.00
and had no serviceable parts...
The motor and labour for doing the work was just out of this world.
Since you have power this fix will fix you up..
Good luck Scott
John

My driver side window was doing the very same as described above. I had a radio/speakers installed today and i guess something finally crapped out while they were putting it all back together as they could not get the window back up. They called me back to their garage and i messed with it with them. Anyways, now it won't even budge anymore. Usually i just had to fiddle with it for a minute and let it go up in its spurts, now nothing. The guy that was installing it did like pictured above with putting the "prob" on the wires to try to bypass the switch or whatever. This did not not get the window to move either. I'm assuming this means the motor is shot? Also, the motor feels pretty hot.

Did he try both Blue wires ?
one is for up the other is for down ....
if this does not work then yes the motor is shot
for sure... hope it was just the wrong button he had the wire on...

Good luck with the repair Rob
John

Where can i get the little "rocker" or whatever at to replace it? Maybe I'll take the switch apart and see what the tips look like and just replace them even if it is the motor since it seems to be a commen issue and the car is now almost 9 years old with 124k miles.

As for which wires he messed with, i honestly didn't pay attention or think about it at the time. The window was all the way down, so if he was messing with the down wire that would certainly explain it doing nothing.

I went to a local salvage yard to see if they had any motors there for cheap. They did, but they already had it out of the car (so i didn't get to see where exactly it came from). The guy tells me it came out of the front door of a 99 four door (which is what if have) however after taking out my old motor/regulator the bracket that connects to the window was slightly different on the two. The one he gave me was slightly shorter and where the screws go in was angled slightly different. My guess is that the one he gave me was from the back left door or something. Stupid me didn't check to make sure they were exactly the same before hand and after getting frustrated with why bracket and window wouldnt line up just right i figued out the bracket had to be different. While messing with it i did flip the switch to see if it did anything and it did seem like it was trying to move the window.

Maybe I'll just go ahead and replace both since the old motor/regulator are already out, and i plan on keeping the car for a while and it will probably go out eventually anyway.

Anyway, thanks for posting up how to fix the switch, certainly saved me a lot of time trying to figure it out.

This is awesome. I've been pushing in on one of those little pins with a ****ing paper clip for over a year just cause I haven't gotten around to paying $80 for a new switch that would probably break again. So there are no replacement parts I need, I just need to clean up those little copper parts?

Ouch, wish I would of looked here about a week ago before I just spent $160 to get my driver's side switch replaced.

my driver side window does the same thing lmao...... i had the cables inside the dr replaced cause they were torn up wich cost 400 dollars all toghether and then the guy tells me the switch is bad also wich is gunna be another 2 something to fix does nebody know if this happens to all the drs eventually cause that will suck????

Is it possible to get all your windows to automatically roll down like the drivers side does? How you just have to push it all the way down once and it'll roll it all the way down without you having to hold it?

I cleaned my switch up and it didnt work so i bought a new one ($55) but the rears still dont work. I test the blue wires, they had power. Should the rear windows have gone up or down or all of them. Reason why im asking is because the rears have worked intermitantly since i got the car, last month i havent had anything out of the passenger side. but the driverside rear is still on the fritz. could it be the motor kicking in or out. I kinda thought either they went out or they didnt.
Is there any othertest i can do. It just seems funny that it occasionly works..

you threw me off, i know what nipples are LMAO but where is the rocker switch