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Old 02-26-2007, 08:13 PM
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Default Power window question...

I noticed a weird thing with my MMH, not sure if this is common and/or I am just being plain nit-picky.

Anyways, my passenger side powered windows are about 30% slower in speed going down, and about 40% slower in moving up in comparison to my driver's side windows. Has anyone else noticed this with their MMH/FEH?

My wife's MPV and the Mustang seem to move up and down within .5 second of each other on either side. I asked my wife to "roll" them up and down, and she thought it was also an annoying difference in speed...enough to want to take it back to the original dealer >40 miles away. We have a dealer <5 miles from us, so I would probably take it there... Anyways is this normal???
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Old 02-26-2007, 11:12 PM
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Nope. I have never seen that in a 2005 FEH.
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Old 02-27-2007, 06:03 PM
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Default Re: Power window question...

My last car (Pontiac GTO) had a much slower passenger power window too. I guess I never really thought about it much. Maybe they do that on purpose since the driver's side window is the one you use more often (paying tolls, drive-thru restaurants & bank windows, etc).

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Old 02-27-2007, 06:19 PM
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Originally Posted by jdp72 View Post
I noticed a weird thing with my MMH, not sure if this is common and/or I am just being plain nit-picky.

Anyways, my passenger side powered windows are about 30% slower in speed going down, and about 40% slower in moving up in comparison to my driver's side windows. Has anyone else noticed this with their MMH/FEH?

My wife's MPV and the Mustang seem to move up and down within .5 second of each other on either side. I asked my wife to "roll" them up and down, and she thought it was also an annoying difference in speed...enough to want to take it back to the original dealer >40 miles away. We have a dealer <5 miles from us, so I would probably take it there... Anyways is this normal???
Something is binding, get it to the dealership.

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Old 02-27-2007, 09:11 PM
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That's unusual. You should get that checked out.

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Old 03-01-2007, 09:20 PM
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Yeah I am definitely going to have it checked out. Maybe at the first oil change, or if there is a recall or some other issues crops up.
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Old 03-02-2007, 08:01 AM
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I'll bet when you take it in, the dealer will say your driver's side window moves faster because you use it more and the seals aren't as tight. Not that I think that will be necessarily be true in your case.
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