Driver window won't work after jump Start

hamooz · October 22, 2020

My truck battery was in low voltage. I accidently put the jump start cables in reverse order (plus on negative terminal) and I saw some smoke coming from the terminals. I quickly de-attached them.

After several minutes, I put the the cables back in the correct order and I was able to start my truck.

However, the dashboard screen said: "Action Required - Open Then Close Driver Window" right after my truck started. The driver window won't roll down at all.

I have checked most of other electricity, the rest of windows, horn, stereo, lights, DC plug, and they were all working fine.

I don't know what I did. Did I fry something up? The driver window won't work? could it be the motor, or the wiring? Does anyone have any idea how to diagnose it?

Thank you for your help in advance.

JimCost2014 · October 23, 2020

12 hours ago, hamooz said:

My truck battery was in low voltage. I accidently put the jump start cables in reverse order (plus on negative terminal) and I saw some smoke coming from the terminals. I quickly de-attached them.

After several minutes, I put the the cables back in the correct order and I was able to start my truck.

However, the dashboard screen said: "Action Required - Open Then Close Driver Window" right after my truck started. The driver window won't roll down at all.

I have checked most of other electricity, the rest of windows, horn, stereo, lights, DC plug, and they were all working fine.

I don't know what I did. Did I fry something up? The driver window won't work? could it be the motor, or the wiring? Does anyone have any idea how to diagnose it?

Thank you for your help in advance.

Think you should just replace your battery.

Once they get to the point of having to jump it, you will experience all kinds of electrical problems.

rusty503 · October 23, 2020

Actually I would disconnect the ground cable at the battery for some minutes, hook it back up and check the window function. Other than that, it's time to check all of your fuses. Hooking those cables up backwards could have blown any number of fuses.

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hamooz · October 26, 2020

On 10/22/2020 at 11:05 PM, JimCost2014 said:

Think you should just replace your battery.

Once they get to the point of having to jump it, you will experience all kinds of electrical problems.

On 10/22/2020 at 11:29 PM, rusty503 said:

Actually I would disconnect the ground cable at the battery for some minutes, hook it back up and check the window function. Other than that, it's time to check all of your fuses. Hooking those cables up backwards could have blown any number of fuses.

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Thank you for the tips. I was able to fix the problem.

The problem is gone, no fuse is blown. The window now starts working It turned to be the alternator problem after I have done several tests on it

I had to replace the alternator and the battery too. The battery was damaged because of backward jumping and overcharging.

Edited October 26, 2020 by hamooz