[968Syncro]

Yeah, well, true story.



When we were kids, and a new car was coming, we said: "Dad, can we have a push button radio?" He always said: "Awh, one more thing to break." "How about power windows?", "Naw they always break!" Actually true, he didn't buy a car with a push button radio until they all came with push button radios, and the dealer wanted extra to install a manual tune radio. He also didn't buy a color TV until there was a grandchild and he wanted her to watch Sesame Street.



So, here I am:

- Drivers side window switch or something related broken, likes to go up not down.

- Sunroof power drive somehow out of whack, intermittent, opens sometimes, seems to work only when it is raining <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/mad.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />

- Drivers side power seat switch broken, front switch goes up/down, and back, but not forwards



Maybe Dad was right... The 968 Workshop manual (.PDF) appears to be 767 pages long. Soon to be much more familiar with this baby. Some go racing; I get to pull interior panels, how glamorous! Whine! Whine! Whine! <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/sad.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[Anchorman]

Many of us have had the pleasure of removing the interior door panels - more than once. Like so many of these "little" tasks, it's much easier the second (and third, and fourth, and...) time.



My first car with power windows was a 1970 Olds Cutlass - I hadn't ordered the windows, the car came in with them, I told the dealer to order me a new car as I didn't want those unreliable windows and didn't want to pay the extra $70 for an option I hadn't ordered. Since the car was ordered, and came with, the "heavy duty suspension" that he didn't want to have in an inventory car, he conceded to eat the $70. The windows worked without problem for the 8 years we kept the car. Haven't been without power windows since.

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[968Syncro]

So, two down and one to go.



I was very lucky with a quick repair to both the power seat switch and the power window switch. Thanks to someone on the forum here, the suggestion was to use the spray contact cleaner which I got from Radio Shack ($10). I removed the window switch all the way, and got the power seat switch out of the mounting panel and hanging from the wires. Sprayed the contact cleaner in (first removing the power seat fuse) and then repeatedly worked the switch to help penetration and crud removal. Really I was hoping that this would work. I also found this detailed reference for power seat switch repair that was extremely useful (http://forums.rennlist.com/rennforums/sh...ost4180657). The seat switch needed a couple of treatments but both of them came to life again (yes!), there was no need to disassemble the seat switch or buy any new ones. Couldn't find the suggestion on this forum (somehow the search didn't work again this evening) but thank you very much for suggesting the contact cleaner.



Now the power sunroof: I know there are detailed instructions here somewhere, have to search for them, thanks to the forum.

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