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Old Jun 13, 2012 | 10:44 PM
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Default power rear window - switch backwards?

Just wondering if anyone else thinks the sliding window switch operation is opposite what it should be? The Window slides to the right to close, but you pull the rocker switch to the left to do it. And pushing it to the right makes the glass move left! I'm tempted to try reversing a couple of wires!!
I know it is a pretty small issue, but it just seems wrong.
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Old Jun 13, 2012 | 11:19 PM
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Weird - the controls are different in a 2009 and they do go the direction of the arrows
 
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Old Jun 14, 2012 | 12:12 AM
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Originally Posted by pks
Just wondering if anyone else thinks the sliding window switch operation is opposite what it should be? The Window slides to the right to close, but you pull the rocker switch to the left to do it. And pushing it to the right makes the glass move left! I'm tempted to try reversing a couple of wires!!
I know it is a pretty small issue, but it just seems wrong.
Here is the video...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ4LTvOHaH8

my 2009 works the proper way
 

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Old Jun 14, 2012 | 10:21 PM
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When I push mine it opens and when I pull on it the window closes, just like the other 4 window switches.
 
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Old Jun 14, 2012 | 10:25 PM
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Yeah it seems fine to me. Nothing different from the regular window controls.
 
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Old Jun 15, 2012 | 02:28 AM
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My 2011 is like that and I've always thought it seemed backwards too but this is the first truck I've ever had that had an electric back window so I thought it was just me!
 
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Old Jun 15, 2012 | 04:42 PM
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Like Oldjeep said, the switch in the 2009 & 2010 models is not like that. It matches the direction of the window movement.

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Old Jun 15, 2012 | 04:44 PM
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They changed the switch so that is why the earlier models seem correct. My 09 worked like you would think it should. My 12 is a totally different switch and works backwards from what you would think it should do.
 
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Old Jun 15, 2012 | 07:31 PM
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I always thought its backwards too.
 
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Old Jun 15, 2012 | 11:48 PM
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Yep, noticed it the first time I used it. Looks like they started using the exact same switch as they do for the door windows. I've had the truck since Feb. and still can't get it right the first try.
 
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