Driver window won't open

PriusGirl - Go to the Parts Department (or other Toyota parts source), and ask them to quote you the cost of a Master-Driver's Side Window Switch Assembly to check and verify that the replacement part truly costs +$500...$500+ for the part alone. How much is their labor quote to install the new switch part?

The Service Manager's "...once one goes they all tend to go soon after" sounds like a "story."

Re: “Should I look around for after market, and have someone else fix it?” I would say, “Yes. If it were me I would pursue and look at a less costly route to repair the failed switch or whatever, before doling out $500+ in parts plus installation labor $$$.”

Additionally, is the Service Manager/Toyota Mechanic (and you) positive-sure it is, in fact, a failed Driver’s Window switch, and not the Driver’s Window motor that failed?

 

$500 plus labor?
I wonder what the labor rate would be if it were a warranty job versus what they had planned to stick it to you for?

Stay away from Toyota dealerships for a little while and do some internet research on replacing the switch yourself to include figuring out how much and where you can get the Master-Driver's Side Window Switch Assembly.
Did they take your door apart or are they going to "Easter-Egg" the problem?
"Easter Egging" is when you buy parts until they fix the problem...and you know what? It might not be the switch assy, but let's pretend that it is.
They took the door apart and/or replaced the switch assembly with something out of a hangar queen to determine that that's the part, and then they put your door back together with the old (bad?) part in it so that they can tell you that the $500 switch is bad so that if you authorize the repair they can take the door back apart again????

Really?

Or...are they just guessing about the Master-Driver's Side Window Switch Assembly???
Either way?
I guess you'll find out when you get your bill for whatever they did while your car was in their shop, huh?

Uh....
I think I'd do something a little different like self repair or develop a relationship with an independent wrench.


Good Luck!

 

perhaps you can find a switch at a junk /recycling yard? most of them never go bad.

 

The switch assembly (84040 - contains all switches) for a Gen III does retail for ~$450, but unless the dealer actually tested it, I would get a second (and third) opinion. Personally, I would go the salvage yard route...