Hello all!
I've been searching around this site for a week or so and there is a lot of great information. I just registered in search of a little help.
Quick background. I've been a car guy for as long as I can remember, and have been working in the service business for the last 15+ years. I am usually pretty good with any sort of mechanical as well as electrical work. Not afraid to jump in to something to figure it out and repair. After looking around the car a little bit, it seems like VW likes to do things differently than the domestic and Asian vehicles that I'm used to. But the car has been pretty reliable and a nice little car.
That being said, this is my first VW experience.
My girlfriend owns a 2008 Beetle. The car as ~140k on it.
Just recently the passenger side power window stopped working. The drivers window works fine. The passenger window does not operate from either the drivers door or passenger door switches. All switches illuminate. Power locks, mirrors, etc all work properly.
My first guess would be that the lift motor died. I removed the door panel to take a look and there are about 20 wires running into the power window motor. I've had little luck finding any schematics for this is. So I started doing a little testing.
I plugged the drivers window motor into the passenger harness and it does not work. I then plugged the passenger motor into the driver side and it works fine. Therefore I have no reason to believe the motor itself is bad.
I'm not 100% sure on how the circuit works on this vehicle, but in the past with other vehicles the passenger side windows will generally run through the driver side switch before it reaches the passenger side door.
My thought process would say power runs through the drivers door switches and makes its way to the passenger door switch. So possible causes could be:
Bad drivers door switch
Bad passenger window switch on drivers door
Damaged wiring from drivers door switches to passenger switch
Bad passenger door window switch
Bad window control module (if there is such a thing on this vehicle)
All of that being said, I would normally start with either a drivers door passenger switch and/or passenger door window switch. However, I'm not a big fan of just throwing parts at a car without being able to diagnosis the issue a little bit further, but I don't have a schematic to test switch functions.
So at this point I figured I would reach or for any information or advice with this in case it is an issue that people have seen on these vehicles and could possibly save me some time and money by pointing me in the right direction.
I've read about all sorts of issues with windows on these forums, but most of them seem to be mechanical or regulator related.
Has anyone else dealt with this? is it a common issue? Is it as easy a replacing a switch? or are their bigger problems here?
Thank you all in advance for any help you may be able to provide.
I've been searching around this site for a week or so and there is a lot of great information. I just registered in search of a little help.
Quick background. I've been a car guy for as long as I can remember, and have been working in the service business for the last 15+ years. I am usually pretty good with any sort of mechanical as well as electrical work. Not afraid to jump in to something to figure it out and repair. After looking around the car a little bit, it seems like VW likes to do things differently than the domestic and Asian vehicles that I'm used to. But the car has been pretty reliable and a nice little car.
That being said, this is my first VW experience.
My girlfriend owns a 2008 Beetle. The car as ~140k on it.
Just recently the passenger side power window stopped working. The drivers window works fine. The passenger window does not operate from either the drivers door or passenger door switches. All switches illuminate. Power locks, mirrors, etc all work properly.
My first guess would be that the lift motor died. I removed the door panel to take a look and there are about 20 wires running into the power window motor. I've had little luck finding any schematics for this is. So I started doing a little testing.
I plugged the drivers window motor into the passenger harness and it does not work. I then plugged the passenger motor into the driver side and it works fine. Therefore I have no reason to believe the motor itself is bad.
I'm not 100% sure on how the circuit works on this vehicle, but in the past with other vehicles the passenger side windows will generally run through the driver side switch before it reaches the passenger side door.
My thought process would say power runs through the drivers door switches and makes its way to the passenger door switch. So possible causes could be:
Bad drivers door switch
Bad passenger window switch on drivers door
Damaged wiring from drivers door switches to passenger switch
Bad passenger door window switch
Bad window control module (if there is such a thing on this vehicle)
All of that being said, I would normally start with either a drivers door passenger switch and/or passenger door window switch. However, I'm not a big fan of just throwing parts at a car without being able to diagnosis the issue a little bit further, but I don't have a schematic to test switch functions.
So at this point I figured I would reach or for any information or advice with this in case it is an issue that people have seen on these vehicles and could possibly save me some time and money by pointing me in the right direction.
I've read about all sorts of issues with windows on these forums, but most of them seem to be mechanical or regulator related.
Has anyone else dealt with this? is it a common issue? Is it as easy a replacing a switch? or are their bigger problems here?
Thank you all in advance for any help you may be able to provide.