Looked at other posts and decided to take joystick apart for moving door mirrors. Found couple bad spots and cleaned them up. Will still only move mirrors up (no other direction). What am I missing?

 

One of those pesky little spring contacts that fly across the room when you take the switch apart?

I'm impressed you got it back together. I gave up on my 2001 and got a replacement.

Graham

 

I've had it apart three or four times but can't seem to find a problem

 

Dale, were you able to check continuity in all 4 positions after the clean up? I'm asking because that would tell you if the problem is in the switch contacts or in the connector forward.

John

 

You are a brave man, Dale...or foolish . I can say these things because I've done just what you have, and it can be quite intimidating, all those little bits and pieces, springs and ball bearing contacts.


I'm convinced that mine just has some bad contacts or compromised runs in the switch board...and yours sounds similar. Seems a common enough issue.


After much hair pulling (and I little enough there to spare as it is!), I have decided to leave mine alone until a spare $110 bucks rolls my way for a new switch (see SNG Barrett). It's not so hard as all that to manually adjust them, and I'm pretty much the only driver anyway. When the dollars come up with no other higher priority on them, I'll pull the trigger and just replace with new...not tempted at all by a used fleabay offering...got a used one already .

 

I know how frustrating it can be. I took mine apart 3 times and re-sanded the contacts. each time with 1200 grit paper, greased it each time with dielectric grease. and finally it started working properly. That's been about five years ago, and it's been fine. It seems to be if the contacts aren't perfectly clean they won't work.

 

I'm going to take mine apart at least one more time before I give up. I'm both a little brave and a lot foolish but I love it. Both my mirrors will move up but no other direction. I have them set but hate the idea of not being able to move them

 

Best of luck. If you win this time, maybe I'll try again, too .