I HATE Power Windows With Auto-Down But No Auto-UP!!

"Wobbles the Mind" (wobblesthemind)
10/12/2016 at 09:28 • Filed to: Man Yells at Clouds

Automakers, all or nothing! Either I handcrank/hold the switch to operate the window or it is automated in both directions. STOP this sheep-shuffling sh*t of having the DOWN function without the UP! The UP is the most important part!!

Think about drive-thrus. Most Americans pull away from the drive-thru window having to make some tight turn around the business, balancing this liter of scorching hot sugar-flavored imported bean water, and being in a hurry because the entire process took 3 minutes all while having to hold the window switch up because this damn Nissan Versa only has auto-down on the driverside window!!

This is safety people!! Gitdim SAFETY!!!!

This auto-down only crap is killing the American dream of being able to walk across the exit of a drive-thru without a 90% chance of having your legs obliterated by a driver with food in one hand, a window switch in the other, and blasting whatever Future is mumbling this week.

DISCUSSION (27)

Wacko > Wobbles the Mind
10/12/2016 at 09:30

my Nissan goes auto both ways.....

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Wobbles the Mind
10/12/2016 at 09:31

The only solution is autonomous window motors.

TysMagic > Wobbles the Mind
10/12/2016 at 09:32

thank you for putting this in writing. I stand behind your cause

Wobbles the Mind > Wacko
10/12/2016 at 09:35

Well not all of us went to college, Rockefeller!!!

Wacko > Wobbles the Mind
10/12/2016 at 09:46

you got me wondering if an SL would go both ways my 2014 pathfinder is an SL i just dont know if the s or sv goes both ways

MonkeePuzzle > Wobbles the Mind
10/12/2016 at 10:06

an overly sensitive auto up and down can be equally frustrating when you want just a LITTLE down or up, but NOOOOO it wants to go ALLLLLLL the way

ttyymmnn > Wobbles the Mind
10/12/2016 at 10:07

First time I experienced auto windows was in a Honda Prelude in about 1989. I was blown away. I’ve not experienced an auto window that only autos one way, but I am flummoxed why my Odyssey only has it on the driver’s side. How much more money would it have cost to put the same switch in for both windows??

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Wobbles the Mind
10/12/2016 at 10:07

My driver and passenger windows are both auto up and auto down. My dad’s new(ish) Camry doesn’t even have that.

Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever > Wobbles the Mind
10/12/2016 at 10:18

My Honda only has express (up and down, thankfully) for the drivers door. To hell with the passenger, they’re probably moments away from being obliterated by my Takata airbag claymore mine.

FoilyDoily > Wobbles the Mind
10/12/2016 at 10:27

Audi FTW.

V12 Jake- Hittin' Switches > Wobbles the Mind
10/12/2016 at 10:29

My S600 does this.

Birddog > Wobbles the Mind
10/12/2016 at 10:41

You dagum spoiled kids. Back in my day we had to hold the button down the whole 2 seconds in either direction! Both ways!!

Yunguns gots it too good today I tell ya.

Michael > Wobbles the Mind
10/12/2016 at 10:49

2nd gen MR2s have a drivers down, but not up. But if you open up the circuit board, add a diode where it’s actually printed on the board, and file down the finger switch to allow the movement, it does auto-up. It’s built for it, but locked out.

Tatanko > Wobbles the Mind
10/12/2016 at 11:08

My ‘16 GTI is the first vehicle I’ve owned with full auto up and down on all four side windows. Once you get used to it, it makes zero sense for a vehicle to be any other way.

Klaus Schmoll > Wobbles the Mind
10/12/2016 at 11:15

It’s to prevent YOU AMERICANS ;) from suing the automaker when their spawn cuts an arm off or something with the window. Think of it as a safety feature or the answer to a questions that nobody ever asked.

Kinja'd!!!

JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! > Wobbles the Mind
10/12/2016 at 11:16

I had no idea that was a thing until I drove a handful of chevys. It was the dumbest thing ever. The had to cost MORE to design that than let them be auto up/down

Old Red Wagon > Wobbles the Mind
10/12/2016 at 11:17

My GTI had auto up/down but my wife’s corolla only has auto down. When I drive her car on the weekends if we run errands I always try to use the auto up like I do in my car. For a split second I think “oh no my auto up doesn’t work” but then I realize it’s not my car.

facw > ttyymmnn
10/12/2016 at 11:24

Only one side seems pretty normal. I guess because the driver has a lot more things they need to put the window down for (while driving).

ttyymmnn > facw
10/12/2016 at 11:26

I guess. But it just seems cheap to me.

facw > ttyymmnn
10/12/2016 at 11:27

Many cars go the cheap way, even when the good way isn’t much more expensive (eyes cars with gooseneck trunk hinges with disdain).

DynamicWeight > Wobbles the Mind
10/12/2016 at 11:32

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Tekamul > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!
10/12/2016 at 11:50

Definitely not.

Auto down is easy, it just runs a timer. Auto up requires sensing if the window hits an object, like a toddler’s neck. That equates to extra cost, which is why it is less frequent.

Captain of the Enterprise > Wobbles the Mind
10/12/2016 at 11:53

I’m pretty sure my Corolla goes both ways

sn4cktimes > Wobbles the Mind
10/12/2016 at 13:27

When I had my 2007 Wrangler I had no power options (knew it’d spend time in rivers) and I’d always be a little exasperated when someone would give me the “roll down” signal for the passenger-side window... so far away.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Wobbles the Mind
10/12/2016 at 13:30

My car has full auto- on all four windows

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Wacko
10/12/2016 at 13:31

SL is definitely bi-curious at the very least.

shop-teacher > Wobbles the Mind
10/12/2016 at 23:08

I didn’t know auto up was even a thing.