I'd like my car, I hate fixing power windows. I should mention that I don't have a single window working anymore. The passenger front gave up the ghost a few weeks ago. I use the sunroof for ventilation, and I don't want to beat that up and break it as well.

I got into it today, I pulled the cover up, and I saw that both windows on the driver's
side were not plugged into the switches.

So I put the switches in and the driver's window rolled down very nicely. I got about halfway down and thought I better check to see if it'll roll back up. It won't. I think I disconnected it after a similar episode maybe a year ago. I somehow got it back up and didn't want to make that mistake again.

Here is a photo of the jack assembly for the front window, driver side:



I would think one could hotwire it - and if it works fine, it must be the switch. Using my voltmeter, I determined the socket on the upper right is 12V. I got no action either way from jumping that to the other sockets. Maybe there's something I'm missing.

I was thinking, maybe cleaning the switches would be in order. OTOH, I checked the fuses to make sure I didn't accidentally fry one while I was trying my hotwire maneuver - no fuse damage. So maybe it's not the switch. But I took the front switch apart and tried cleaning it. Not sure I did everything right. I'll write that up later.

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