Thread: Electric Windows is this normal

Sounds like it could be a circuit overload switch ... next time it happens time how long before the windows function again .... the switch normaly has a bi metal strip ... when current flow is to high the strip heats up , deforms and breaks contact ... then cools over time and contact is made again
But it is only the safety device not the problem, that will be in one of the winding motors and or sliding mechanisms or both

Joatt

I happens on either rear rear of left front window, are there all interconnected somehow?[/b]

They are all connected to the same main power source in the fuse box apart from that they are seperate as far as I am aware. Some have lockout control on the master console for there's kids in the back but that'd be the only link between the two back windows.

Most cars these days use self-reseting circuit breakers and I think it's 20amp or something around that for leccy windaz.

Should only activate if two windows are stalled, ie finger held on the switch but the motor cannot wind the window up/down any further. Usually cuts out for 15~20secs before they can be reused. Got me wondering why it would be tripping the breaker.

Weird, the boss's Sahara has 'leccy windaz and although slow due to age, don't do that either. Anytime the ignition is on the windows will move so I dunno, land rover have timers on them or something ?

Originally posted by Hellspawn
so I dunno, land rover have timers on them or something ?

Yep strange, as I said it only happened twice now, but always when I left the missus in the car and lowered the windows so she wouldn't cook whilst I went into a shop.
I know that when you turn the ignition off, uyou can operate the windows for a few seconds, there is enough power to close them.
There is a power timer for that.
May be it works in reverse too when they are down.

Any one game to try theirs for me .
Lower and turn key off for say 5 mins and see if they instantly power up when the ignition is switched on

That's probably what it is... the system resetting itself. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]

if they got the switches that stay down so you dont have to have your finger(or any other part of your anatomy) on the button the whole time....one may be sticking in the down position.
by the time you start the car and look for the window switch it may be long enough to trip the circuit breaker.

or it might even be some kind of land rover safety device for some strange reason or another.
does it say anything in the owners handbook about it?

Nope my disco has never done that. matt

Hi all

I had the exact same problem with my Disco. It is caused by a dry soldered joint on the electric window control board(hidden behind glovebox). There was a tech thread on Discoweb(is it still down?) that I followed and my windows have worked fine since. About 1 hours work and a small soldering iron,problem solved

Cheers Dragonwagon