Switch panel design

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Switch panel design

Reply #30 – December 17, 2013, 08:16:13 PM

that's nothing, when I got my 85, each window went different ways (driver's-forward down, backward up/passenger's-forward up, backward down). I reversed the wires on the back of the passenger's half of the switch to get them both to work the way the switch plate was labeled.

Switch panel design

Reply #31 – December 17, 2013, 08:56:30 PM

my cougar windows are the right way, and my.tbird is correct.

Switch panel design

Reply #32 – December 18, 2013, 08:30:07 AM

Quote from: Thunder Chicken;425798

My parts TC didn't have a power seat. Here's my interior (very dusty, the car was still a work in progress) with the '87 TC seats, '83 console (full length, right to the back seat), and T5 installed. It's odd - this car was not originally a console car. When I plugged the console-type switches in they worked the opposite of what it said on the console plate: Up was down, down was up.

So you must have a later '87-'88 console plate installed on an earlier full length console and switches then right? Remember that on the '86 and early cars had the windows go up when you pull back on the switch and go down when pushed forward.

I'm probably biased because my car in an '85, but the earlier window switch configuration like that makes more sense to me than the '87-'88 style.
I feel that I'm am pulling "up" on the switch, therefore the window should travel up. Just as I am pushing "down" on the switch in order to make the window travel down.

Switch panel design

Reply #33 – December 18, 2013, 10:29:58 AM

Quote from: BCA;425820

So you must have a later '87-'88 console plate installed on an earlier full length console and switches then right? Remember that on the '86 and early cars had the windows go up when you pull back on the switch and go down when pushed forward.

I'm probably biased because my car in an '85, but the earlier window switch configuration like that makes more sense to me than the '87-'88 style.
I feel that I'm am pulling "up" on the switch, therefore the window should travel up. Just as I am pushing "down" on the switch in order to make the window travel down.

I feel the same way. I always go the wrong way on the switch in mine after I've been in anything else. I've been thinking about relocating all the switches and putting a cup holder there. That's a pretty time consuming project though. If I found a good set of replacement seats from something else with base mounted switches I might do it.

Switch panel design

Reply #34 – December 18, 2013, 11:37:47 AM

Quote from: flylear45;425827

If I found a good set of replacement seats from something else with base mounted switches I might do it.

SN95 Mustang.

Looks like the same joystick as was used on our cars. It's at the very front of the seat, kind of a weird spot, but still...it might work with our harness, so in theory that should be an easy swap. I took that harness out of my passenger seat and don't know what I did with it though.

Switch panel design

Reply #35 – December 18, 2013, 08:26:02 PM

Why would you want a cup holder? Drinking things in the car just invites a mess

Switch panel design

Reply #36 – December 18, 2013, 09:11:57 PM

I have to admit, full console and column shifter are a weird combination, but I love that mat, that's where my phone goes!

Switch panel design

Reply #37 – January 06, 2014, 01:54:24 AM

Forgot to mention this, but, you always knew a car was fancy when it has the power seat controls in/on the door armrest :)