I am pulling an engine from an 2008 is250 and in doing so pulled all the wiring separating the engine from the body. I then realized that the window was not up all of the way. Is there a way to get a battery and "manually" power the switch to close said window?
Thanks

 

I would think that if nothing shorted to ground like the alternator main feed (check everything) you should be okay to connect the battery. The downside is I'm pretty sure the alarm is going to go off so horns will blare. Will the Body ECU allow the window to be moved when the power button is pressed? That IDK but I think it wants you to start the car and that's clearly not possible. Will pushing the start button (no brake pedal) with fob inside power the window is the question.

Are you willing to pull the door panel and disconnect the wire harness? Are you ready for that?

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I actually already had the door panel off to replace the side mirror (hense needing the window up). But I already simply reattatched all of the wiring harnesses and the battery and then rolled it up. I think that I was over thinking things Wiring is already re-disconnected now. I think it took me longer to figure out if forcing a window up than simpy reattatching the harnesses

 

My 2013 set off the alarm when the battery went dead over time, IIRC when I flashed the ECU for a tune, battery was disconnected for a week, and no alarm. Something about a slow decay set other things in play.

Question, did your alarm go off?

And what happened to the engine?

 

No alarm.
The rings got stuck with carbon and resulted in compression from 30 -90 psi. I spent a month soaking with no progress, hense the swapout.