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Sorry, the circuit board in what gets damaged?

Changed the battery this afternoon and I managed to get the windows up at proper speed, they'd gone down within an hour or so though. It's now constantly blowing one of the fuses for the electric windows.. sounding like a short somewhere? Or any other ...

I peeled the boot back as far as I could so I checked as much wiring as I could see, makes me think maybe it's not that that's the problem.. I think I'll get a new battery tomorrow (someones suggested they may need reactivating due to a low voltage/disconnected battery) and fingers crossed my mate ...

Right, neighbours just knocked on the door to tell me both windows are down again!
They were much more problematic to get back up, the passenger side being the worse of the two, going really slow and really reluctant to go past halfway up.

I had a quick look under the rubber boots in the door ...

Ok, sounds like the wires are my first port of call then, cheers!

So it's unlikely to be motors/regulators you think? Don't fancy messing with those to be honest!
Might have a look on eBay for new switches and check the wiring if the rain holds up sometime today :x

If the locking wouldn't have an effect on the windows I'll leave that for another day,
Thanks for ...

Hi,

Just joined and new to the forum, looking for some help!

Recently I picked up a 2001 6n2 GTI, had no troubles for the first couple weeks but now got some niggles and this problem..

Yesterday morning I went to my car to find both windows all the way down.. On winding them back up they went ...