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RE: 164 one-touch window control unit



Does anyone know if it's possible to add this function
to the other windows through some creative wiring?  My
driver's window also acts up, so if I'm replacing it
this would be the best time to get creative.

Thanks,
Ian Lomax
94 164LS
SF, CA, USA

--- Karl Chen <karlcchen@domain.elided> wrote:
> Jeff,
> 
> You haven't got the window control unit yet.
> Usually control unit's relay stuck because the
> plastic
> holding electric contact melt from heat.
> You need a new one anyway.
> You will know what it looks like when you got it.
> I can email you the picture of control unit when I
> got home.
> 
> Regards,
> Karl Chen
> 
> >>
> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:06:55 +1000
> From: rasputin <rasputin@domain.elided>
> Subject: 164 one-touch window control unit
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> The one-touch electric window operation on my 164
> driver's side window has
> given up. It continually attempts to wind the window
> up, resulting in a
> continual clicking from the window as it tries to
> wind up and can go no
> further.
> 
> I pulled apart the door and reversed the wires to
> the motor, which
> immediately wound it down. This proved to me that
> the window motor was fine.
> I have also swapped the window switches in the
> console, so it is not those.
> 
> The Cardisk discusses something called the "control
> unit" which provides
> this one-touch function, but I can't find it! There
> is something under the
> glovebox which looks like it but it has a vast
> multitude of wires coming
> from it (grouped into approximately 6 plugs), and I
> unplugged the most
> likely of those and the window continued its
> attempts to raise. None of the
> wires going into this box matched the colours
> specified in the Cardisk
> wiring diagram.
> 
> Can anyone shed some light on where I can locate
> this control unit, and
> whether it is fixable once removed?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff
> Australia, '89 164
> <<
> 
> 
>
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