aero

I was thinking the other day... if my remote can put down my rear window, why not make it roll all the windows down. It sure would be nice to have while walking towards the truck in this Florida heat. You have to open all the windows to let the 150 degree heat out before you get in.

I am not an electrical genius... more of a mechanical guy, so I figured some type of relay seems like it should work wouldnt it?

I have a few SPDT relays for some alarms that I was going to put into my last car, and they were basically for adding them on to the existing one so it would seem to work.

Anyone done or thought about this?
I was going to put this in the electrical section, but since the crickets started chirping when I went in there, I figured I should find a more populated area.

Thanks

scuba

sounds like a righteous idea.
although im not much of an electric man myself i would think of putting a relay inbetween the power window swich and whatever sends the signal to the rear window when you hit the button.
something like that

Ron Helmuth

aero it is a good idea but I believe much more complicated than we could imagine.

There are a number of safety settings and switches that rely on information provided by the door and window sensors, in my mind messing with that would simply trigger a multitude of other problems.

No- I am not aware of anyone that has done this on a Yota truck/Runner.That alone should tell you something. I am presuming you have searched the Runner forums including this one, T4R.org, 4x4wire and so on.

Not trying to discourage you sir. Perhaps Ritzy has some input on it, he has messed with a variety of electrical systems on the 3rd gen.

Best of luck with this- I will follow along and gladly 'eat crow' once you have figured this out for the rest of us to copy.

The first thing that pops into my head is the rear hatch motor must stay "hot" all the time for the remote to activate the down window command from the remote. The other window motors are not "hot" all the time-you know this because they stop moving when you turn the key off and open a door.

Thus one big obstacle would be making all the windows hot all the time-and I have to think that would be a no-no leading to dead battery etc. etc.