My drivers window switch has packed in, and its sunny so iam not a happy bunny.
Any one ever repaired a window switch? Or is it a new one?

 

Here's one option:

https://rennlist.com/forums/showthre...=window+switch

The other is to buy a new switch, which is what I did. Over here, they range from $9.95USD bottom price on eBay to $74 at the dealer. I bought the cheapest ones and was disappointed with the mold quality. So I bought the $15 ones from Performance Parts, and they were ****. About a 5 min. job, including time to stand back, drink a beer and admire your work.

For today, you could just swap the offending switch with the passenger side.

 

Mine also just gave up.... I opened it and corrected it, but after putting it back together it doesn't release itself when I let go.
I just ordered two new from pelican part, they have two brands one cost $15 and another $50, I was cheap.... So I hope its good enough quality.

 

Exellent!
I did a search but didnt go that far back, ill try this out tomoz.

 

imho---try the repair. i bought two different new ones, and was unhappy with the quality. after doing the repair on the original switch it worked better than the new ones.--tom

 

Try Euro car parts or German and Swedish.

They sometimes have original parts at a decent price.

Ordered two for my old MKII golf from them, original VW parts/boxes at £10 ea. Dealer wanted £50 ea.
I know they do Porsche parts so may be worth checking

Rob

 

Just tried to repair this little ba##ard switch with NO result!
Did as instructed but it didnt work. Ahh well worth a try.
Ill shop around for another one.

 

Welll ... after spending a whole lot more than 10 minutes messing with mine, here's my Tale of Woe:

Took it apart as per the above-mentioned archive post. Not a prob. Drilled little holes, had to cut bits off the wire part of a paper clamp, as my smallest drill bit made holes too big for a standard paper clip. Then tried to put it all back together.

First, the white plastic parts that fit into the little springs need to be helped to stay in place with blu-tack, or they just fall out when you re-assemble it.

Second, do this all on the floor. Otherwise parts leap to safety and you end up on the floor looking for them.

Third, it is altogether too easy to drill holes that go through to the holes that the springs & white plastic bits go into. This means that any pressure on them as you attempt to "widen" the switch body makes them disappear into the holes you've drilled and cease to do their job.

So I worked out how to pop off the cap of the switch body so the newly-pivoted switch handle just drops into place. Reassembly's a bit tougher, as you need extra hands to hold the switch body's retaining springs in place as you get the cap clicked back on.

Re-installed, and discovered that it works. Except having inadvertently applied the above-mentioned pressure made one vanish inside. So my "repaired" switch is largely back where it started, except I'm damned if I'll take it apart again and epoxy the paper-clamp pivots into place.

So I went onto fleabay and blew $15 on a replacement.