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My power windows stopped working, most inconveniently as I was in a drive thru lane to get tacos.
After getting the Beast* (and my tacos) home, I thought, this sure sounds like a fuse.
After I got home, and drank beers while eating tacos and cursing the Beast's electrical system, I fixed it. First, confirmed that the windows were still kaput. Pulled the fuse, no it's still good. A blown fuse would have been little consolation, as it raises the question: Why did the fuse blow?
Put it back in, the windows now work.
I guess the fuse blades and contacts are not the greatest. I paid the dealership half a kilobuck to change the engine compartment fuse block. They may develop enough resistance to not trigger the relay. Probably a decent preventive maintenance would be to go through each the fuses on each fuse block, pulling and reinserting, just to re-seat the contacts. Might save you drive-thru taco trauma.
If anyone wants them, I sat down with Paint and typed in the fuse ID's over scans of the fuse block charts from the manual:
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