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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: gtimk3 on 30 March 2009, 18:50

Title: Drivers side electric window switch HELP
Post by: gtimk3 on 30 March 2009, 18:50

Hi,

Whats the best way of replacing a drivers side electric window switch for a Golf GTI MK3?

Thanks

Andrew

Title: Re: Drivers side electric window switch HELP
Post by: dan@bar on 02 April 2009, 21:20

I did this the other week.  I thinks it's quite easy if I remember rightly.  The switch is fitted into that plastic panel that becomes the handle for pulling the door shut.  There is a join that runs down the handle and back to the door card (joins the padded or fabric arm rest).  If you carefully slide a flat head screwdriver into that join the top half of the door handle panel with start to pop up.  You can then grab hold of it and pull it off.  The lecty window switch is clipped into that panel and the wires plug into the switch.  Easy peasy! Only problem is that changing the switch hasn't improved the window operation much :cry:. I even sprayed everything with a liberal dose of electrical contact cleaner  :angry:.  Apparently there is some wiring that is quite a common fail on the mk3's that needs replacing to revive the window properly.

Maybe someone else can help with that?  :smiley:

Title: Re: Drivers side electric window switch HELP
Post by: Len on 02 April 2009, 22:08

Most of the time its not the switch but the wiring!
The favourite place for this is the door grommet, the flexible rubber piece between door and A post.
So you need to unscrew it from the A post end and pull it out from the door and check the wires in that area.
If there's a fault thats where its bound to be!