Fixing the broken stuff... broken power window switches on the 911

It's interesting after owning another 1988 911 for a few years to see the same things not working correctly on both cars, parts wearing similarly or sometimes completely different.

We are in the beginning phase of going through the car and have already made quite an extensive list of things we want to restore, change or upgrade on this car.

Yesterday we took both cars to our car audio guy and had him move our stereo and speakers from our 'old' car to our 'new' car. We also had to have our Porsche mechanic fix our non-working brake lights, adjust our muffler that was touching the frame and we had him go through the entire car and make a list of things we need to do to the car over time.

Some of the first things we are working on now are the broken things. 

Given the car is over 20 years old there are lots of little things that need to be repaired or replaced.

Lots of common problems!

First thing that we noticed was that the switch for the passenger side electric window didn't work. We had the same problem in our last car.  Luckily the drivers side has a switch to control the passenger window and given this switch worked it means that the only thing broken we my switch.  Other common problems are apparently regulators and motors which are more expensive than a switch.

The switches are very easy to replace once you get the door panel off.  As you can see here (driver's side) someone has already replaced one of the two switches because one is matte (after market) and one is shiny (OEM).  We are replacing all three of them so that they all match and to avoid ripping the door panels off for each switch failure.

 

As you can see below the switch is easy to swap. Just simply pull off the connectors one by one and reconnect them.

 

Here is the old and new switch side by side.

 Next thing I am tackling is a lock issue with the passenger door as well as getting a very good alarm installed in the car.