Remote Rear Window

[keenano]

I have installed a code alarm system and want to use the trunk release function to lower the back window. I found two wires at the switch that seem to run the window, I think they are red and red/black. Both have a constant 12v. Red/black drops to ground when the window goes down and the red drops to ground when the window is going up. Will simply placing a relay through normally closed control the window? It just doesn't seem like that will work. I don't know what else to try. I was hoping to find a wire that read 0 until the window went down.

 

[Gerdo]

The controls for the rear window all run thru the orange box.

 

[keenano]

Yeah, I know there is a relay box at the back. I'd have to find a way to run a wire all the way to the back and into the tailgate. I also don't think there is room for two relays back there.

 

[004runnerLtd]

Not sure if this helps, but there is some slight room next to the relay.
Just depends on how large the relay you want to install is.

 

[keenano]

Yeah, thanks. I've been back there a couple of times to replace the door lock motor...huge PITA. It would be two SPDT relays, one for up and one for down.