kenyel

Just urchased this audi a6 2.8 quartro and at first the windows worked a couple of days later only the drivers side controls worked. now my front assenger window will not go down. can some one please help me?

massboykie

Welcome to the C5 group!

Just a fyi. You need to use the search function otherwise you are going to get some "flack" on here.

This is a pretty common problem on these cars. I am assuming that it is unlikely that all the window motors are dead, so it is probably your switch unit on the drivers door. These are pretty expensive, but you can buy them on eBay new for about $50 (that's where I got mine).

Hope that helps.

Cheers
Massboykie

kenyel

will do. but all can go out like this and only the drivers side will work?

kenyel

Fine i received the auid switches for the drivers door. know my pasenger window and drivers window goes up slow and most of the time comes to a slow crawl and then stops half way up. now on the drivers side i have to push it up! Any idea what this can be?

host23age

have you tried to hold the lock/unlock window button on the driver side while asking somebody to press the other window switch? If it is magically work, your master switch is bad (the unlock/lock window button)

MP4.2+6.0

That is likely to be broken window guides, not the electrical components. Search on window guides for more info. and posts Requires you to take window frame unit out of each affected door to get at. Common A6 problem, especially the front windows. Audi did a parts improvement on this sometime after 2000, and there is an old Audi Technical Service Bulletin about it somewhere.

MP4.2+6.0

first see if the passenger door switches get it to work. If so, it is the driver's door switch module that controls all windows. If it still doesn't work, look variously at fuses (the ones in the side panel of the dashboard when you open the driver's door), at window motors in the affected doors, and at the window guides. Per my post below, if the windows move in both directions at all (even if slowly or just a little distance), it is probably not either electrical nor the window motors. Rather, it is likely the window guides that keep the window aligned to the overall door/window frame as the window goes up and down.

kenyel

so i received my driver door switch, just to find out that the front 2 windows are still moving slow and dont want to go alll the way up. unless i help by pushing them up along with holding the button. but allso today my right rear door window did not work for a bit until i togled the switch several times.

Does any one no what may be happening hear?

MP4.2+6.0

Your window guides are broken--a mechanical part. If your windows are moving at all, it is almost certainly NOT electrical.

If you don't know what I am talking about, use the search function.