V8V wing mirror power fold fix & window reset.

[Uncle Stig]

It’s a full moon tonight causing my wing mirrors to fail again. Battery is tip top so it must be the moon. Ok, it’s been written about before but I’m repeating it so next time it happens I can fine the solution here, plus I’ve sorted a quirk in the reset system. Some say you need to take it to Aston for a memory flush. Alternatively you can wip out the two door fuses F82 & F83 in the cabin fuse box, passenger foot well, and put them back in again. This worked a treat and hey presto, door mirrors folding again.
However you need to reset the windows and this is where I’ve just wasted an hour of my life I’m not getting back. I followed the hand book as well as plenty online descriptions, drivers door worked a treat, passenger window reset didn’t want to play. The procedure is to sit in the car, door closed, ignition on, drop the window, keep button pressed for 5 seconds when the window is at the bottom. Do the same going up. As mentioned this worked on the drivers side. Did exactly the same on the pasanger side and no joy. Tried it time and time again, but it didn’t want to reset.
I then found a very simple solution. Just perform the basic reset with the door open. It works.
Curiosity got the better of me so I took the fuses out again, I wanted to see if the window reset with the door open would work on the drivers side too, but it didn’t. Aghhhh.
So it’s a quirk and for my future benefit, remember, drivers window reset has to be done with the door closed,
Passenger window reset, has to be done with the door open.
Listen to your own advice and save an hour in the future.
Thanks

[flittlejr]

Thank you so much. Worked like a dream. Saved me $180 and 8 hours (4 each way) drive. Again thank you so much;);)

[huntsen]

Uncle Stig said:

Alternatively you can wip out the two door fuses F82 & F83 in the cabin fuse box, passenger foot well, and put them back in again. This worked a treat and hey presto, door mirrors folding again.

That's very odd. Fuses 82 & 83 are the window mechanism fuses. Take them out temporarily to do a hard windows reset. I've just replaced my battery and that's how I got the windows dropping again. I'll file the doors open\doors closed thing for future reference. In my case, persistence eventually fixed them.
Powerfold (fold when locked, unfold when key inserted) has to be reset with the AMDS, unless you mean just getting them to move (press right and left mirror buttons together). Either way fuses F82 & F83 don't protect the mirror circuits.

[UncleStig]

It’s a full Blood Wolf Moon tonight and would you believe it, my windows stopped working again. This is the second time it’s happend on a full moon, what’s going on!