| Or so the dealership would have you believe. But that's only because they want to sell you a replacement part and labour to change it, rather than fixing the broken part (or replacing the wrong part so they can charge you for two replacement parts)
A couple years ago a power window in my car would go down, but not back up. I assumed it was the switch and since I was close to the dealership so I took it in to ask how much the replacement was. The service tech gets into my car and pushes the switch to make the window go the rest of the way down (took me 1/3 of the way down but no up for me to figure out it was the switch), then the tech tries to make it go up... and says yep it's the motor - $300+labour to replace it. FYI, The motor goes down with current in one direction and up with reversed current, since it went down... the motor probably was working fine. So I asked how much for the switch - $250. Needless to say I got outta there in a hurry...
$80 later at an auto-wrecker, I got a working switch (including a power mirror assembly to replace my duck-tape repair job) |
