Q: Driver window

asked by on December 23, 2016

I have a 2011 VW Passat The driver window goes down with swtich but doesnt come up. Every other window works. I tried to put up my window with key holding the lock button and it worked. So is it the swtich fault?

My car has 93205 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.

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