Electric Windows

[AKY-B]

hi.has anyone had problems with their driver e/window on ls430?.mine rises slowly and stops 1/2" from top.it will go up but only by pushing the glass upwards.help!

[GoldfingerLS]

Oh man I’ve been there before...I can't believe this has happened to a LS430 that’s still a very new car !! I've experienced this with cars older than 6 or 7 years.

I've fixed electric windows with this problem before (never on an LS but on other Honda and Toyota) where the window was very slow and did not go up all the way and had to be pushed up. Most of these electric window mechanisms are pretty much the same.

When I opened it all up the thing which was wrong was either that the cable in the motor mechanism has broken or has gotten stuck and tangled in which case it needs to be replaced. If the car uses a "scissor" type mechanism which pushes the window up, it has bent.

Not sure which type the LS has but I got a feeling its not the scissor type because the last time I open it up on a Toyota Carina it didn’t have the “scissor” type mechanism but it was just the cable with plastic teeth in the motor mechanism which has come lose and all tangled up and broken. That was on my friend’s car and Toyota did not sell the cable separately so we just sourced the whole motor part (for about £20) from scrap. After replacing it is still going fine and it’s been almost 2 years since we repaired it.

It’s difficult to say without opening it up and looking at it. You will need to take off the inside door trim to get to it.

OTHER FELLOW LS OWNERS:

Has anybody else seen or fixed this problem specifically on a LS ? It could help this person before he goes opening it up first.