My window is "wishy-washy"

[Vtec-boy]

on my 96 Civic, the rear window works when it feels like it! Somedays it will work fine and others it will go down, but wont go up? Ive listened for motor humm when this happens, but nothing. This guy told me that it was the motor. I was like; if its gone, its gone and it wont work sometimes and then not, right? am i wrong? If anyone has had and/or fixed this problem, please let me know. Any advice is certainly appreciated!

[96CivicEX06]

Could be a fuse?

[exman98]

or there might be a wire some where coming loose

[Vtec-boy]

good ideas! I'll take the door off and check for loose conn. It works sometimes, so it might not be a fuse- but ill check anyway! let u know what i find!

[Blitz_Runner]

i donno what it is but i had the same prob with my 93 civic. the windows (back ones only) would go down, but not back up. and then sumtimes when they felt like it. i just diconected the plugs in both back doors for the windows since it was winter when it happend.

[Knight Rider]

I used to have this problem on my old 88 Mustang... turned out it was a bad power window switch.

[Geeko]

's normally the switches, the contacts for the "up" get dirty and won't make a good connect, resulting in only sporadic functioning. i would try bypassing them with some test leads to see if you can get the windows to reliably go up and down without the switch... if you can, you know the switches are bad. otherwise, it may still be a loose wire, etc... but doubtful.