quick neon update

Haven't had near as much time to work on the 1997 Neon I bought a couple of months ago as I thought. However, I have gotten the engine running smooth again with a basic tune up. Also, fixed the oil leak (temporarily at least) with some lucas stop leak.

Fun tid bit: gauges didn't work and the engine light was on when I bought it. Put an obd ii computer on it and it said it was the speed sensor. All it took to get the gauges to work was going under the car and plugging the speed sensor plug back in, it was just dangling. Apparently the only reason the gas gauge didn't work was cause it hadn't had anything more than $5 at a time in it for a little while.

Not much progress, but the motor works okay and the gauges work. Now if I can just fix the freakin windows...

good luck, mine has been a 2 year work in progress.

...while serving as DD

anybody have any trouble with the neon windows? I can't quite put my finger on what's wrong. Although I haven't spent much time on them. The wiring seems ok, but they won't go up and down. The guy who sold it to me said they worked ok when he sold it to me, but I'm pretty sure he's full of crap. I doubt the motors are bad and I know one of them is off track. I can fix "off track", and I can fix wiring or bad motors. I was just wondering if there were any quirks I would know of.

I don't look forward to going through wiring gremlins or retrofiting the door ends from another harness. Just hopeful there were some shortcuts.

TuffWork wrote: anybody have any trouble with the neon windows? I can't quite put my finger on what's wrong. Although I haven't spent much time on them. The wiring seems ok, but they won't go up and down. The guy who sold it to me said they worked ok when he sold it to me, but I'm pretty sure he's full of crap. I doubt the motors are bad and I know one of them is off track. I can fix "off track", and I can fix wiring or bad motors. I was just wondering if there were any quirks I would know of. I don't look forward to going through wiring gremlins or retrofiting the door ends from another harness. Just hopeful there were some shortcuts.

Dunno but I'd start with the window switches themselves, disassemble, clean, dieletric grease, reassemble, test. Can make all the difference in the world. Get a voltmeter and check continuity for each circuit too, that should take care of wiring and switch, motor would be your last culprit...