Rant: I spent years hating my F-150's window switches... then I finally figured out why they're like that

I've owned this 2018 F-150 for about 3 years now and I've been swearing at the window switches the whole time. You know how they put the 4 window buttons in a row, but the rear switches are flat and the front ones are raised? I kept hitting the rear window when I wanted the passenger window. Drove me nuts every single morning on my commute from Denver to Aurora. Last week I took it into a shop off Colfax to fix a rattle in the door panel. The mechanic there, an older guy named Ron, explained it was designed so people in the back seat don't accidentally hit the raised front switches. He showed me a TSB about it. Still feels backwards to me, but at least now I know there was a reason besides just bad engineering. Anybody else have a car feature they hated until someone explained the logic behind it?

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xenan644d ago

Buddy of mine did the same thing. Took him six months to figure it out.

lisa_bennett4d ago

Has anyone else tried just memorizing which button does what by feel? I did that for a week and now I don't even look down anymore. Once you know the rear switches are flat and the fronts are raised, it becomes automatic.