Q: Electrical issues
I tried putting a new radio in my car so I cut the wires to solder them to the new one and I had my car started after that some wires may have been touching. Now my drivers side window won't roll up is that a fuse or something else?
My car has 168000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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