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Car Forum / Volvo Cars / September 2004

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'89 240... power window problem

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Frank Furter - 06 Aug 2004 16:59 GMT
In the 3 years I've owned my '89 240 wagon, the right front (passenger)
power window has never worked right. I can use the driver's side switches to
lower and raise the other 3 windows, but I can't get the Right Front window
to lower unless I use the switch on that door. Interestingly, I can use my
driver-door switch to raise that window, just not lower it. I've checked to
see that the connectors are attached, and even sprayed a little contact
cleaner into the switches to try and fix it, but no go. I'm guessing there
may be a broken wire, or perhaps a relay? Anyone know what would be the most
likely cause, and what I could do (cheaply) to fix it???

m9876c at yahoo dot com
James Sweet - 07 Aug 2004 03:41 GMT
> In the 3 years I've owned my '89 240 wagon, the right front (passenger)
> power window has never worked right. I can use the driver's side switches to
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>
> m9876c at yahoo dot com

The most common failure is the switch itself.
Mike F - 09 Aug 2004 14:10 GMT
> In the 3 years I've owned my '89 240 wagon, the right front (passenger)
> power window has never worked right. I can use the driver's side switches to
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>
> m9876c at yahoo dot com

All the switches are the same.  Grab one of the switches on a rear door,
unplug the suspect switch from the front door harness and try the rear
door switch in it's place.

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Thornhill (near Toronto), Ont.

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Replace tt with t (twice!) and remove parentheses to email me directly.
(But I check the newsgroup more often than this email address.)

Frank Furter - 10 Aug 2004 16:22 GMT
Thanks! I didn't expect them to be the same, very convenient if one fails on
the road!!! I just replaced the defective driver-side switch with one from a
local junkyard, works fine. Wish I had tried that 3 years ago!

m9876c at yahoo dot com
andy coles - 02 Sep 2004 05:47 GMT
Happened to me on our 340 and 740.  Easy to repair.

Remove switch, pull switch apart but do this sloley as it contains a metal
rocker with contacts on, two balls and two springs.  Clean the contacts on
the rocker bar and the corresponding areas and reassemble.

Volvo usually try and sell U a new switch for silly money - but then if
volvo fix for you it is probably cheaper forking out for new switch than
having them spend time fiddling with a repair.

Andy
> Thanks! I didn't expect them to be the same, very convenient if one fails on
> the road!!! I just replaced the defective driver-side switch with one from a
> local junkyard, works fine. Wish I had tried that 3 years ago!
>
> m9876c at yahoo dot com
 
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