The AUTO-UP and AUTO-DOWN feature of the power windows, will stop working every week or two. It may be both UP and DOWN, or just one or the other. It may be all windows, or just the one at a time. It is completely unpredictable.

AUTO-UP is when you press the window-up button until it clicks, then you can release and the window continues to raise itself up. The AUTO-DOWN feature is basically the same, but for lowering the window.

When the feature ceases to work, pressing the switch until the small "click" does nothing different from manually raising or lowering the window as one would normally do.

I thought I was going crazy when my car window would not AUTO-UP, because I was convinced that it did it before. Reading other threads confirmed my suspicions.

In order to reprogram a window for AUTO-UP, one must press and hold the window-up switch until a few seconds after it reaches the top of the travel. Usually you can hear a faint "click". The reprogram a window's AUTO-DOWN feature, press and hold the window-down switch until a few seconds after the window has bottomed out. Again, you can hear a faint "click". The window will then have the upper and lower limits reprogrammed, and the AUTO-UP and AUTO-DOWN functions should work once again. Repeat the process for any windows that do not work correctly.

This is aggravating, as Ford should have devised a permanent fix for this problem by now. It has almost become second nature to me to reprogram the windows while driving down the road, but I wish it wasn't.