Hello fellow briskodians i have a felicia 1999 sport line and i am facing this problem
The right front window doesn't function .I have removed the door panel and found the reversing polarity cables but even though the voltage is right the current of them is like 200-300 mA and that cannot turn the motor over .I was wondering why that is (Btw the window functioned this way for years it seems like) 

SO should i check fuse relay or what
Thanks a lot for your time
Greetings from greece

Since you have checked the voltage and current for the motor, you can assume that fuse 18, the switch, and the wiring are OK. This means the motor or the regulator are faulty.

8 hours ago, RicardoM said:

Since you have checked the voltage and current for the motor, you can assume that fuse 18, the switch, and the wiring are OK. This means the motor or the regulator are faulty.

but when i connect plain 12v power to the motor it works so its not the motor and because the other window works i can assume its not the regulator as well
One question though are 300 mA a good value for the door motor to go up and down because as soon as its load is connected the voltage goes to zero and the motor doesnt move

6 hours ago, Thefeliciahacker said:

... and because the other window works i can assume its not the regulator as well

The left window working has nothing to do with the functionality of the right window.

 

Your initial message was not too clear at all. You said only "The right front window doesn't function." That is far from being explicit. For instance, is there any sound from the motor when the up/down switch is engaged? Does the motor gets hot? When you applied 12V directly to the motor, did it spin? Did it raise the window?  Be more specific if you want efficient advice. You have full access to it, we know only what you tell us.

 

A very common problem is too much friction in the mechanism of the window and between the window and the frame.

@Thefeliciahacker - In English the "window regulator" is the gears and cables that actually lift and lower the glass. The window motor is what turns the input gear on an electric window. This means that this entire part of the system is duplicated, one each side.

 

@RicardoM may well be right about the issue being friction, either in the gears or in the window channels, but it's hard to be postive without more data.

1 hour ago, KenONeill said:

In English the "window regulator" is the gears and cables that actually lift and lower the glass.

it may be, but it is not intuitive at all. A better term would be 'window mechanism'. To me 'regulator' is a device that maintains a certain characteristic. In our case, I call the window regulator or window controller the electronic device inside the motor case that takes care of the logic of switching on the motor in the right direction and switching it off automatically when reaching the up or down limits, usually based on a certain surge of the motor current. The regulator regulates the current absorbed by the motor. If faulty, the motor either doesn't turn at all or can't turn because not enough current is fed to it.

 

Edited 6 June, 20179 yr by RicardoM

@RicardoM - I see your point above, but the name comes from when wind-up windows were a new thing.

guys thank you the problem got fixed by rewiring the 12v wire that goes from the fuse box to the switch obviously someone had mess with the switches b4 because they were all cover in electrical tape