Recently my prelude's passenger side window became stuck.

Leading up to this for about a year, the passenger window control wouldn't put the window up, but it would put the window down.

Also, the driver side switch for the passenger window would have to be pushed just right in order to get the window to go up.

Now, nothing happens when either switch is moved. I do not hear a noise or anything, it doesn't seem if the window is trying to move at all.

I took the door panel off, and lubricated the window channels with a silicon based lubricant. I couldn't seem to naually pull the window up (I don't really care if the window will ever work again, this is my 'gas mileage' car).

Any ideas of how I can get this fixed? The switch on the drivers side still works for the drivers window...

Thank you!

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Originally Posted by stupidStan

Recently my prelude's passenger side window became stuck.

Leading up to this for about a year, the passenger window control wouldn't put the window up, but it would put the window down.

Also, the driver side switch for the passenger window would have to be pushed just right in order to get the window to go up.

Now, nothing happens when either switch is moved. I do not hear a noise or anything, it doesnt seem if the window is trying to move at all.

I took the door panel off, and lubricated the window channels with a silicon based lubricant. I couldn't seem to naually pull the window up (I don't really care if the window will ever work again, this is my 'gas mileage' car).

Any ideas of how I can get this fixed? The switch on the drivers side still works for the drivers window...

Thank you!

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Did you ever get an answer to this question? I have a '90 Prelude with the same problem, and almost the same pattern.

Yes and no.

It recently started to get really hot here in GA, so I was determined to figure this out.

I pulled my door apart last weekend and started by testing the motor. I pulled the connector closest to the motor and jumped it with a 9 volt battery, the window went up and down just fine, so I knew it wasn't the motor. Next I started rooting around with the voltmeter. First I went to the door switch, and all of the connections seemed fine there (I even did a little soldering to make sure they were strong). Next, I tapped into the power coming in, that's where I found out that the leads going into the motor were not getting power anymore. My Prelude is pretty beat up, I bought it from an Iowa driver, so there is a lot of rust, so finding where this problem was originating might be quite a long process, so I cheated a bit.

I started checking around to find a powered wire in the door I could tap into. I found on on the right side that went into the right are of the door. It had plenty of current running through it, so I shorted it out to see what fuse it ran through. Looking in the fusebox, I saw that it was the seatbelt retractor fuse, 15A, perfect.

Now I had a power source, so I had to completely redo the switch to deal with the new powersource (also realizing this ghetto mod will render the driverside switch inoperable). Next I pulled the switch form the passenger door and cut all the wires off. Make sure to leave enough wire unless you want to do some soldering. After a lot of trial and error, I figured out how to make the switch work.

To prepare to attach the switch, you need to do 3 things:
1. Attach two grounds to the door - I simply used self-tapping screws and crimped some ringed ends to ground wires.
2. Splice in to your new source of power.
3. Splice extensions to the window motor wires.

Now you have 2 grounds, a + and - motor wire and your live power.

Simply splice the wires to the switch like shown in the attached image and everything should work. It really does not matter which lead you hook the + and - wires of the motor up to, just make sure you mount the switch so the upo and down are correct.

Hope that helps. Also remember that this will make your driver side switch useless, but at least the window will work. Make sure to test the motor first!!

And that is the end of 'Ghetto Prelude Window Fix' :)