I've been using this mod for about a week with no apparent side effects. It's great to be able to open and close all the windows without fumbling for the key and putting it into the ignition. All you have to do is take a 14 gauge wire, remove the 2 fuses in pic, shove the stripped wire ends into the respective holes of the 2 fusesr, bend the copper wire strands downwards, put the fuses back in and you're done!. Shouldn't take more than 5 minutes!

There may be a more elegant way to accomplish this by enabling the power window relay but I couldn't find a wiring diagram for the power windows and came up with this mod by poking around the fuse panel with a test light. If you know how to do this mod with the window relay, please post a how to here.

Also, if you know how to power the cig lighter w/o a key, please post a how to.

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