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Reprogramming Auto Electric Windows

  • 05-11-2015 7:33pm
    #1
    Pops_20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 720 ✭✭✭


    I've been trying to reinstate the auto electric window function on my 1999 Toyota Starlet Glanza. They've never worked since I got the car, just getting to it now.

    I've read on a few threads that you hold the button when the window is down for 5 seconds and when its up for 5 seconds, and it should be reprogrammed. This isn't working for me, any suggestions?


Comments

  • #2
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,520 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    AFAIK you have a mechanical switch in there? Does auto down work?


  • #3
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,569 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    As Colm says, I don't think an electric window of a starlet can be "reprogrammed".
    In my experience (subaru/mazdas from around that year) it is a 5 position switch.

    Up-until-current-sensor-cuts-power
    up-a-bit
    nothing
    down-a-bit
    Down-until-current sensor-cuts-power

    If you can't feel two distinct "clicks" when pressing up or down then the switch is either the wrong switch or it has worn out. OR.. your window is stiff and the motors are working to hard to move the window, resulting in the switch thinking it has reached the top.

    A millimetre of plastic on cam is the difference between auto up/down working in a subaru and they do wear out.

    The subaru switch was expensive because it's not just a switch, the current sensing stuff is built into the switch pod too.
    The mazda 626 one is probably still going. Wish they still made window motors/regulators/switches as good as those...


  • #4
    Pops_20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 720 ✭✭✭Pops_20


    I'm not sure if its a mechanical switch or not, but if this is more common for cars of this age then I presume it is.

    There are two distinct clicks when pressing up and down. The passenger window switch is just one click each way and it's not labelled as auto.

    I had an astra with auto windows and these could be reprogrammed to function correctly if the battery was disconnected - but I presume these are solid state switches and not mechanical?

    When I first got the car, the window would get to the top and then immediately come back down to about a third of the way, like the safety feature - would this have something to do with it?


  • #5
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,686 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    1 ) Push switch to open fully. Then it's either keep switch held in open position for a couple of extra seconds once stopped
    or
    you let go when window reaches bottom then push switch again in open direction for a couple of seconds

    2) Pull switch to close window then do same at top as you did at bottom.

    Abit of trial and error will get it.
    I think the toyota brain needs to be told fully open position first and then fully closed can be set.
    If you dont do fully open first, the window will kick down from fully closed (thinking something has blocked travel ) and disrupt the setting process.


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