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Accidently Shorted Window Switch Live Wire.. Now Cannot roll windows down

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Old Jan 30, 2026 | 10:09 PM
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If anyone has any expierience with what i have posted all i need to know is where the main fuse/relay for the power window is located
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Old Jan 31, 2026 | 10:07 AM
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So your car has 3 fuse boxes, there is one in each kick panel and one under the hood. When u feed power into a live circuit it usually doesn’t do anything, if you ground a live wire then you’ll just blow a fuse. You checked all 3 fuse boxes? and couldn’t find anything blown? I would take your test light and check every fuse, there is going to be a blown one somewhere
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Old Jan 31, 2026 | 07:33 PM
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So your car has 3 fuse boxes, there is one in each kick panel and one under the hood. When u feed power into a live circuit it usually doesn’t do anything, if you ground a live wire then you’ll just blow a fuse. You checked all 3 fuse boxes? and couldn’t find anything blown? I would take your test light and check every fuse, there is going to be a blown one somewhere
I'll go back over and check them and get back to you but when i checked last i hadnt seen any that was blown which is why i was thinking maybe a relay but to make it more clear of how it all happened I was installing new speakers in my gs and I had the passenger door panel off already and needed to get the window rolled down to see if the magnet would clear the window, my stupid self decided i would send live power into the switch thinking it would make the window roll down (I have a power probe tester that lets you send power into the wire) when i sent the power it started giving me an error in the reading and the 5amp fuse on the power tester popped off but it still blew whatever it blew in the windows
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Old Jan 31, 2026 | 10:04 PM
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I am not sure what wire u sent power into? It seems like the plug coming off the power window motor has a half a dozen different wires going to it, probably 1 12V lead to open it another to close it, a ground, maybe another power wire that controls the auto up down features? Those are all just guesses, but I would think the power is on when the key is on and then switch sends a signal to a relay that then controls the window. Do u know what wire u powered up? all the windows besides the driver door, use the same up down switches and relays, is it just that one window that is dead? If it’s a blown fuse, likely other stuff won’t work either. So if it’s just one window, then try swapping the switch with another door, try switching the relay with another door, so u can rule them out. And if you can’t isolate the malfunction then the last thing you want to check is the window motor. U can unbolt it from the door and regulator, check for power going to it, make sure check each wire while holding the switch up and down, if it seems like all the power is going to it , then replace the motor. But you just need to diagnose by eliminating components and confirming the electrical circuits are powered correctly. Once you identify the malfunction, it’ll be much easier to correct it.
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Old Feb 1, 2026 | 05:42 PM
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this is the wire i sent power into the 5 pin wire that goes into the window switch, no windows receive power from the switches but if i put the key in the keyhole on the door all windows will roll down except the passenger rear so they are receiving power to the motors, i just checked all the fuses again and none were blown, and all the wires on the 5 pin receive no power at all when reading with the test meter and all the windows are like this they dont receive power to none of the wires on the switch
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Old Feb 24, 2026 | 11:02 AM
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Bump

Did some digging found some new info that the body ecus control the information to the electronics in the car
( https://www.clublexus.com/forums/gs-...questions.html )
Can anyone confirm weather its the ecu behind the driver side or passenger side that controls the windows?
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Old Feb 24, 2026 | 04:59 PM
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UPDATE FIXED

Probably wont solve everyones problems but it solved mine, only issue was windows not working so i got a fuse tap in the speedometer fuse and ran a wire from the driver fusebox through the door to the master switch, the red and yellow wire is what powers the master switch and all other windows, I had a pin prong from a different lighting kit that just clicks into whichever wire pin via metal prong that the wire is attatched to that i spliced onto the fuse tap and tapped it into that wire pretty much bypassing the ecu (I think) and just splicing in power from another source
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