Adjust window drop for door opening?

[huey]

I have been doing the 5 second up/down reset for over 2.5-years with my 4-door Badlands. It's a quick fix, but it does get annoying when I close a truck door and hear that godforsaken clunk because the window stuck the body. You would think by now that Ford would come out with a one time fix all to eliminate the need for the 5 second reset. I have observed how I open and close my doors to see if how I operate a simple door, but nothing appears out of the ordinary. UGH. I'll live with it, but really "WE" shouldn't have to. Come on Ford, address the issue and not a reset procedure!

I also hate the reset procedure.....but now that doe s not work either
Hoping this might be the nudge the dealer needs to start replacing parts to fix the issue

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[gbub]

Mine works fine so far after about two weeks of owning it. When I was working with the sales lady on the paperwork, she got a call and was told there was something wrong with a window and they would get it to the shop. It was taken care of by the time I was ready to take it home. Maybe it had this same problem but it didn't take them long to fix it.

 

[bpesto]

My issue was that the window would drop, then when door closed, would not go up the last 3/8". I heard wind noise and that's what brought it to my attention.
Found this on another 6G thread re: windows to re index and set them. Guess my question is why this occurs in the first place?
It fixed it for now.

Press and hold the window control switch until the window is fully open. Keep the window control
switch pressed for two seconds.

Lift and hold the window control switch until the window is fully closed. Keep the window control switch held for two seconds.

Press and hold the window control switch until the window is fully open. Keep the window control switch pressed for a two seconds.

Lift and hold the window control switch until the window is fully closed. Keep the window control switch held for a two seconds.

Open the door and auto window drop occurred as it should (and closed when door shut)

 

[abbydiver]

I also hate the reset procedure.....but now that doe s not work either
Hoping this might be the nudge the dealer needs to start replacing parts to fix the issue

Ford seems to be adamantly burying their head in the sand regarding the window issues. It seems to be one of the most talked about issues on the forum and I've been fighting it since day one with repeated trips to the dealership for them to tell me it's "working as designed." My response of course is, it's part of the design that I have to hold the door shut when I pull the handle to allow the window time to drop so I can open my door?

The reset only works for so long as I've had two windows fail within the last 3 weeks to the point of being unable to open the door due to no drop at all.

 

[breaddrink]

I wish the windows would drop when you touch the sensor on the back of the handle that auto-unlocks the doors. Instead it waits until you actually pull to drop them.

This is the problem. I vividly remember that when new, all windows would lower slightly on an unlock, and also a handle sensor detect.
Now, it actually waits until you unlatch and pull the door open slightly to drop the window, when it should do it on the touch before it's opened.
In my opinion, it's this semi stuck state that causes the progressively worse states to occur, where it can't find the fully closed position, or inched lower position, due to it catching on the seal, making that *dagadagadaga* wobble, while it's trying to sense a state of open or closed.

It truly seems like it isn't programmed logically. Surely it can/should be fixed in an update?

Years later, still nothing.

I've heard a full battery disconnect can restore the ability, but... That's crazy. The majority you see on youtube are at the semi-stuck state, where it doesn't lower that small amount when the handle sensor is triggered.

 

[breaddrink]

Open the door and auto window drop occurred as it should (and closed when door shut)

The fully functioning state should have them lower as soon as it senses you at the handle, not while opening though.
It's meant to lower them to below the seal, *before* you pull the latch, not after or during.
That's what causes the stick, and that's what escalates the issue to larger alignment problems.

It seems there's more than one level to the problem that's being noticed, and most people just blame the window wobble on open because it's a frameless door, but I remember vividly that mine lowered with the handle sensor, not after a latch pull.
The rear doors obviously don't do this, and the tailgate doesn't lower the windows either. Only the front 2, but the state should be that you have to unlock either by keyfob or front sensor to open the rear doors anyway, that should render the windows all lowering slightly prior to a latch pull. Without this functioning, they all have to be wrenched from under the seal. Only then to they lower.

It should also trigger that state when you unlock with the keyfob.

Mine are currently all stuck, and only move after the pull. I await the next problem, which will be the full misalignment as every single door open is now a full flex and twang on the glass.

*EDIT* I've since learned that my windows may be, in a way, acting as intended, and that Ford, in all of it's wisdom removed the 4 window dip on sensor feature in a software update... It has been speculated that they did this to save on worn out window motors.
This doesn't quite make sense to me as of course it still dips the glass, only after you pull the handle.
Perhaps the all 4 door dip it used to do was seen as being too excessive? Perhaps there was no way to isolate it to the door only, so they just decided to have the windows boing like a ruler on the side of a desk as a half assed solution?

Seems not cool at all to me.

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