Puzzled-power window and power mirrors
I was putting the power window up and it had slowed down and then stopped. No power to the window or power mirrors. Everything else works. I triple checked all fuses, both under the dash and on the fi...
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Ken,
I do work on expensive sailboats. The symptoms as you outlined are pretty clearly a wire joint failure. This could be where a push-on connector goes on a terminal or where the wire is crimped into a connector. Both of junctions get worse with heat and the heat up as they go bad.....
My suggestion to you, since you know that the circuit does work, is that you get to the wires any place you can and PULL on them. 99 times out an hundred (more or less) the bad joint will pull apart. These failures can often be difficult (impossible) to see because they will be hidden inside the insulation. But, if you pull on the wire and it stretches..., it was bad already.
These things are an absolute ***** to locate. Pulling does work best.
Oh, it is not a fuse or a circuit breaker, they both go all at once - no slow down - Just Stop...
Matt
I do work on expensive sailboats. The symptoms as you outlined are pretty clearly a wire joint failure. This could be where a push-on connector goes on a terminal or where the wire is crimped into a connector. Both of junctions get worse with heat and the heat up as they go bad.....
My suggestion to you, since you know that the circuit does work, is that you get to the wires any place you can and PULL on them. 99 times out an hundred (more or less) the bad joint will pull apart. These failures can often be difficult (impossible) to see because they will be hidden inside the insulation. But, if you pull on the wire and it stretches..., it was bad already.
These things are an absolute ***** to locate. Pulling does work best.
Oh, it is not a fuse or a circuit breaker, they both go all at once - no slow down - Just Stop...
Matt
