hey there! thanks for opening. My car's had a funny quirk for the last couple of weeks that just quit being funny. My rear passengerside window stuck a couple of weeks ago. My central controller wouldn't put it up or down. Then it started working again, with no explanation why. No door slams or anything - i just waited awhile and tried it again. My drivers window has done that before as well. And while i didn't check the other windows in the aforementioned situation, just the other day that rear p.side window quit working and i did check the other windows and low and behold my driver's side (front) wasn't working either. And then they both started working at the same time! what the ? ? ?

and now, hooray, they've both quit working altogther - why?
where are these two windows wired together?
i'd tried the door controller on the rear window and it doesn't move it either.

any ideas?

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1984 300D "Brown (and Blue) Betty" Over 200k but the odometer isn't counting

have you tried elect cleaner in the swithc? it may work and get you dothe road for a while longer. corrosion on the switch contacts can be affected by humidity and such so erattic is normal.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Removing and cleaning the switches is easy. If you take the switch apart and clean the contacts with a pencil eraser it should clear up the problem. I also have found if you push the wires where they run between the body and the door sometimes things start working although this means that a wire is probably broken.

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1983 300SD
200000miles

The two windows share a fuse.

Front Pass and Rear Drivers, Front Drivers and Rear Pass.

Perhaps all you need to do is clean the fuse or replace it with a Brass one, getting rid of the tin (they cause corrossion which leads to things not working).

Just an observation and a thought.

But that switch cleaning thing is very easy,......and worth it just because.

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1972 W108 280SE 3.5 (sold but not forgotten)
1986 Buick Grand National 3.8l Turbo (86k miles)
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thanks for the fuse tip. i looked in the fuse box (before i read your response) and i didn't see the window fuse marked - is it in there or in some weird place i don't know about?

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1984 300D "Brown (and Blue) Betty" Over 200k but the odometer isn't counting