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Interior switches in doors randomly not working

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Did some searching and couldn't find anyone talking about something similar, but my 03 1500 RC 5.7 has had the door lock and window switch acting up literally for like a decade now. Seems to maybe have gotten slightly worse in the last year, but its extremely random. No amopunt of tapping or jiggling makes any difference, so doesn't seem to be a connection, and it works so well the next day (and for days after) that it doesn't seem to be the switches failing. I know these switches wire into the instrument cluster, then i assume the data gets sent to the BCM on the fuse box.

What I see:

Some days the driver side door lock switch will unlock but not lock, some days neither
Some days the drivers side window switches will not roll down the passenger window, sometimes both won't work but it's usually the passenger side
Some days the passenger side window switch will not roll down the passenger window

There's no correlation to which switches will or will not work, seems random. When they work, they work perfectly all day until the truck is parked for the night, then the next day they may not work at all (in any combination). They mostly work, so I've been pretty lazy about working on it, just thought I would check before I start buying switches and tearing things apart.
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Drivers door harness in the flex pull it apart and check for broken wires. The harness in the door jamb .
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Drivers door harness in the flex pull it apart and check for broken wires. The harness in the door jamb .
OK I know what you mean, good idea.
Mine did that. The switches grow corrosion and carbon. I took mine apart and used an emery board and contact cleaner to clean the contacts. Worked great.
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Mine did that. The switches grow corrosion and carbon. I took mine apart and used an emery board and contact cleaner to clean the contacts. Worked great.
Thanks, wiring looks good so I'll give this a try. Just weird how random it is.
Thanks, wiring looks good so I'll give this a try. Just weird how random it is.
Yesterday I was at a cruise night/car show, was talking to some people about the Ram Daytona I was driving, when out of no where the wipers make pass back in fourth,, one of my gtx’s does the same thing occasionally… f$&@n dodges
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I get the random headlight flash when I put key into ignition lol
I get the random headlight flash when I put key into ignition lol
I do too, but I thought maybe it was because I have LED bulbs now.
I get the random headlight flash when I put key into ignition lol
I haven’t had that happen, but my niece’s 05 bee will do it.
my old 2014 the outside temp would plummet to-83f or spike to 120f.
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