I have an 04, and when I press for forward part of the window switch, the windows go down, and when I press the back end they go up. I test drove a SRT a few days ago and his was opposite then mine. Was there a switch from 04 to 05, or mine just backwards?

 

Romio, my '04 is exactly the same & completely opposite from my SRT. Gets confusing if I switch between cars often..........

 

This is a really quick fix on the manuals and somewhat more time consuming on the autos but all you have to do is remove the shifter surround panel and using a butterknife or other thin sturdy tool to slip in between the tabs that hold the buttons in. Start on one side and get that tab popped out and then keepign slight pressure on the face of the switch, do the same for the other tab. After it's out, you can jsut slide your finger nail under the middle of the switch where it hinges and pop the cover off. Flip it around, verify taht it's corerct and reinstall. Hope this helps.

 

My 2004 is the opposite:

Blue is UP
Red is DOWN

And no the colored dots are actually not on the car ...LOL

 

I think it is a Benz thing. I had two '90 420 SEL sedans. The switches were opposite.
Best engineered cars in the world, right?

maybe it's that union thing. curious.


roadster with a stick

 

Just curious:

Both buttons, whether flipped around or not, should go to 'automatic down' once pushed beyond intitial resistance and into the detent. Do both your '04 and SRT buttons do this?

Don't tell me that one of them goes into 'automatic up'.

 

The physical orientation of the switch has nothing to do with the function of auto down. If they are flipped around, it's because someone put the caps on upside down. I'm sure it was a day shift/night shift deal where the guy popping the caps on at one time was doing it opposite to that of the other guy and after they caught the mistake, it was easier to just sort them out as they were installed and make sure the car had a matching set and not one front-down/back-up and front-up/back-down. BTW, no way to make these do auto up. tried and failed miserably having to replace both window switches so the LED intensity was the same as well as the control module because I fried it. It's a resistance thing and let me tell you, you can make some pretty weird **** happen by varying the resistance to ground on the signal wire.

 

Yup!
On either car the auto-down feature works just fine!
And, IMO, it's not worth the hassle to yank the covers off of the console & flip the switches around. All it takes is just one "whoops, wrong car" & we're pretty squared-away as to which direction to push ze button.

 

You have an Australian version, they work properly down under.