Just a quick sanity check...the power windows on an S3 *should* be under switched power, correct? I have two non-stock (freakish orange/yellow ghetto-looking) wires coming from my tranny tunnel, to the ground point on the left corner of the dash. If I ground them, my windows have power even when the key is off. Obviously a hack by a PO to make the windows functional all the time. It also seemed like the windows sped up a little bit when I hooked the bogus wires to ground, but that was with my dash grounding point just barely hanging on (dash is out, so the only thing holding all those wires to the ground point was the screw sitting crooked in the metal tab). Once I put pressure on the contacts at the ground point, for a better connection, I can't really see any difference in speed.
Guess the best thing to do is just roll the wires up and tuck them away somewhere. I can't see where they connect, they disappear into the bottom left corner of the tranny tunnel, behind the tunnel and the plastic console. What's really bugging me is, what part of that circuit could you ground to make the windows work, without affecting anything else? No other switched devices (wipers, reverse lights, etc) are rendered functional by the bogus wires, just the power windows.
Crazy PO's.
I should also add that these wires were connected to the ground point (bare wire wrapped around the mount screw) when I got the car.
Guess the best thing to do is just roll the wires up and tuck them away somewhere. I can't see where they connect, they disappear into the bottom left corner of the tranny tunnel, behind the tunnel and the plastic console. What's really bugging me is, what part of that circuit could you ground to make the windows work, without affecting anything else? No other switched devices (wipers, reverse lights, etc) are rendered functional by the bogus wires, just the power windows.
Crazy PO's.
I should also add that these wires were connected to the ground point (bare wire wrapped around the mount screw) when I got the car.