Thread: Group wants garage-door type autoreverse on power windows

Why are you so concerned about being positive all the time? What are you afraid of? Think about it. Do you really want to share the road with someone that can't operate a power window without killing themselves? If the window doesn't get them something else equally stupid will.

The kids don't like it, and I don't like them protesting, but I still do it every time. I'm with you - I don't understand those who don't. It is possible for windows to be an issue even in a stationary vehicle, though.

Quote: Originally Posted by tjts1 Why are you so concerned about being positive all the time? What are you afraid of? Think about it. Do you really want to share the road with someone that can't operate a power window without killing themselves? If the window doesn't get them something else equally stupid will. I'll agree with the part about needed to cope with life even if every conceivable safety feature is not in place....

Another knock is just "more to go wrong". A bad sensor could keep you from rolling your window back up, and depending on design could even force a window to open. However, I wouldn't mind requiring a lockout switch on the drivers controls. That seems good compromise.

Quote: Originally Posted by Shiba3420 Another knock is just "more to go wrong". A bad sensor could keep you from rolling your window back up, and depending on design could even force a window to open. However, I wouldn't mind requiring a lockout switch on the drivers controls. That seems good compromise. Funny you should mention that. Both of our VWs have had a problem with the left rear window hanging up on its track...

Remembering that VW recalled auto windows on the mk IV Golf/Jetta platforms a while back, because they were caving in. I dodged the bullet because I went with the baseline crank windows. Which were fine until you pull up to a gas station and the pump guy tries to conduct business through the passenger window, assuming it's auto.

The switches in my Buick are the old back/forth style. There are lockouts for the windows on the driver's switch panel. Crack the windows, lock them out. Problem solved.

I know for my car, there's a button the driver can push that disallows any passengers from using the automatic windows... Seems to work fine when I have my two-year-old niece in the car.