In the course of my job as valet attendant I come across certain makes and models with glitches.
For example, some Nissans, if I hit the power window up, will roll up, but then roll back down a few inches. This is aggravating, since I must park our cars with the windows up and the doors locked.
Can’t you close the windows like pretty much every other car, where you have to hold the button to the Up position until it’s closed?
Or do Nissans do something truly bizarre like lower a closed window when you turn off the ignition?
Some car windows are desinged that if they hit an obstuction, they’ll go back down. I wonder if the cars you have had the issue with are set wrong and are reading the end of their travel as a blockage.
Yes. The up switch is pressed, the window rolls up automatically, then rolls down again a few inches.
This isn’t ALL Nissans, but I see this occurring in Nissans more than other makes.
The up stop has not been programmed into the window, so it does not know when it has reached the up position. It sees an obstruction (the top of the window channel) and thinks it is your arm, so it backs off just a bit.
Holding the switch in the up position should allow you to roll the window up to the stop.
I am not familiar with programming Nissan windows, but you could give the method that works on Volvos a try.
Roll the window up holding the switch. When the window reaches the top and stops moving, hold the switch for an addition 6 seconds.
Test drive the window auto down/auto up function.
If it works you are a genius. If it doesn’t oh well, you are no worse off than you were before.
Enola Straight, I hope you don’t mind if I tack on another Nissan power window question to your thread…
I have a Nissan, and in the summertime the power window works just fine. In the winter, when temperatures are low, the power window goes down just fine, but if the temperature is too low it refuses to come back up, or comes back up veeerrry slowly. I’ve learned to not even lower the window in the winter anymore because I know it won’t come back up.
If I get home, I can put some hot water in a cup, pour it down into the open window’s gears in the door (I don’t open up the door panels, I just pour it down on the window), and then when I try closing the window it goes right back up without a problem. What’s going on here?
ETA: By the way Enola. I have also noticed the glitch you mention in your OP in my Nissan Pathfinder, but only during the cold temperatures in winter. Do you see this happening all the time or only during the winter?
Do you have the door open while doing this? In my car, the window rolls down about an inch when you open the door then rolls back up when you close the door (seals better that way or something). I don’t know that I’ve ever tried it, but if I attempted to roll the window up with the door open, I guess it would either stop short or might reset itself in the inch down position once I released the button.
Or it could be the window programming thing Rick mentions.
The window is dragging on the seal when the temp is low. The proper fix is to replace the window channel (The rubber/fuzzy channel that the window rides in. Usually shaped like and upside down U.
You can try this as a stop gap. Disclaimer: I don’t live in the land of the ice and snow, and I don’t know if it will work in the cold, but it works in warm weather.
Take a can of WD-40 or pure silicone lube with the little straw attachment for lubing into tight spaces.
Lower the window, and spray into the channel where the window rides. Go all the way from the top to door panel. Get both the inside and the outside. Spray a little extra so it runs down by the window. Repeat with the other side. Run the window up and down several times.