Chrysler Repair: rear power window: Sebring sedan, center position, master switch


Question
I  have a 2001 sebring and the right rear passenger window will lower with the switch on that door but will not raise and the controls at the drivers side door won't raise or lower the right rear window. Would the switch on the rear passenger door be at fault or the switch at the drivers door?

Answer
Hi Dean,
As I read the wiring diagrams, what you describe suggests that one of the two contacts in use when the switch in the rear door is in the resting (center) position is not making a good connection. That would explain why the master won't operate the window at all, and also why it only moves in one direction. So my suggestion would be to spray the interior of the switch with electrical contact cleaner (through any available holes/cracks in the switch body) while you put the switch in the 'down' position  (which would expose the now open contacts to the cleaning action of the spray). Then when you allow the switch to return to the center position see if the master will operate the window in both directions and also the local switch should now be able to raise it. If not, then I believe the dark green/whitr wire from pin 4 of the local switch to pin 9 of the master switch is 'open' as that is the wire that is connected by the contacts that I suspect are poor, so check that possibility. If the connection is good, then I would replace the local switch on the belief that it has failed irrepairably as regards the resting contact in question.
Roland
PS Sorry for the delay but I just found your question in the 'pool' to which it had been referred by the other expert. Please 'rate' my answer, and where you see the question about 'volunteer of the month' please consider giving a 'yes' answer. Thanks