So, first off I removed the door panel and saw the black circles that cover up some of the holes and should lead to the window regulator reset switch.
Looked under the little black circle it's meant to be under and there's nothing there - I looked really hard for a good 45 min and made sure to check both circles where the regulator motor sits, nothing.
I am not sure if the JDM had different motors(?) for the windows, I doubt it since I've not read anything of the sort on here nor reddit. Perhaps a previous owner swapped them?
The original issue was that the driver side window doesn't sit snug when going 50+. As you speed up there's a whistling coming from the upper rear edge of the window pane.
When opening the door, the window falls lower than it should (imo - roughly 1- 1.5 inches maybe) . Passenger side one doesn't drop as low, roughly .5-.7 inches maybe.
This was how the car was as of yesterday midday.
So, after spending 2hours trying to find the reset button to no avail I tried doing the simple reset via window up/window down as seen on here a few times.
This was my second update on reddit when I called it a day:
update: had to close up the door for the day. Heading out etc.
Not sure what to do. JDM maybe had different motors? No clue, maybe someone fitted an aftermarket one? Genuinely stumped.
As it stands, the driver side window drops quite hard when you open it - about 1.5 inches.
Then when it's shut it closes all the way up and looks perfect but as you drive it clearly isn't "tight" and air gets through which makes it very noisy as it starts to whistle.
The passenger one now refuses to drop more than .5cm. no idea why. Started out of the blue as I was attempting to reset the driver side one.
Pretty bummed out that I couldn't get to the bottom of the driver side issue and moreso that I must've bricked the passenger side one too. Any help or advice is appreciated.
Not sure if I need to buy new motors, noticed the passenger side window opens slower than driver side one as well so maybe it's time..?
So, the driver side window is pretty much the same as it was yesterday to begin with. Drops 1.5~ inches, isn't airtight at 50MPH+. The passenger side window is now somehow bugged and won't drop more than literally .2-.3 CM. Barely opens at all when you open the door. As far as it goes though, it has always and still is very snug - no air coming in.
Absolutely any help is appreciated, more annoyed that the passenger window is now somehow bugged than originally annoyed at the whistling of the driver side window.