Window switches’ backlights won’t turn off.

[Connieblau]

Re-connected battery power after 3 - 4 weeks with centre console removed. Even without key in ignition all four window switch backlights now remain on all the time. Only 2 puzzles encountered during console re-assembly: (windows) circuit breaker wiring might be wrong way round, lights are on regardless of polarity and handbrake warning ”˜switch’ had come apart. When the backlights are on the windows work. When the circuit breaker is disconnected switches are dead.

[Gavt]

Have the door switches been disturbed. That indicate the doors open. It might be related to that. The windows will opperate when the doors open and the switches will illuminate. If not that I'm pretty sure there's a relay somewhere near the glove box (if heard a clicking around there before) that could possibly be stuck in the on position.

[Connieblau]

Thanks for that. Turns out I had the two connectors on the circuit breaker the wrong way round, and I had both doors open ”˜cos I was leaning in, refitting the electrics around the gear stick. Once I remembered I had taken a pic on my I-pad of the wires on the contact breaker-before I dismantled them-I put them the right way round, and I did this with the doors shut, and so the backlights worked ok. When a door is open, the’yre on and the windows work even with ignition off so they can be lowered to facilitate lowering the soft-top. An original BMW feature we don’t remember working.

[Brianmoooore]

Doesn't matter which way around the two wires go on the circuit breaker.