Violating my own rule about drinks in my new Marauder (i.e., only bottle drinks with caps), I was going through the drive through at KFC and got a large Pepsi. The drink was over filled and the lid popped off while I was holding it in my left had. The drink slipped out of my hand and turned completely upside down, dumping the entire contents directly on the the flat driver side master control panel. I was in traffic and couldn't stop right away, but brushed the ice and as much drink off the panel as I could. I stopped and sopped up as much as I could with a towel, and of course when I got home I dried off everything with a bath towel.
The next morning on the way to work the driver side window went down all by itself. I put it back up, then a minute later it went down again. Then I could hear sizzling coming from the window control buttons. The "one touch down" also stopped working. "At least I can get it to go back up" I thought, worried that it would stick in the down position. After going down five times, it stopped going back up when I pushed the button.
When I got to work, I discovered I could cycle the power by turning the ignition off and this would allow the window to be raised. If I immediately turned off the ignition it would stay up, otherwise it would immediately go back down.
I took it to my dealer later that day, pulling into the service department moments before a gully-washer storm hit. My service tech said he'd never seen this happen before and thought the master control module was bad anyway -- after all, this area gets wet when you open the door in the rain, and customers spilling drinks in their cars is not unheard of. I don't think he realized what a direct hit and how much this module had been exposed to. Unfortunately he did'nt have a loaner to send me out in, so we decided to disable the power windows by pulling a relay out until I could bring it in early in the day to leave it. That evening, I lifted the door control out and looked at the module -- and you could see that it still had liquid Pepsi seeped inside. I disconnected the module from the connectors, swabbed out the inside of the door area to get the rest of the soda out, then carefully wiped down the module, blew out any liquid that was inside, and using a Q-tip and alcohol, cleaned up the module as best I could. I didn't open the module, though it appears you can do so, but gently blew air through it to dry it out.
Apparently this worked, because when I took the MM back for the service call, the mechanic could find no faults and the window worked perfectly when the relay was re-inserted. I probably could have saved the hassle of taking it in if I had put the relay back in myself and tested it, but at least I have the peace of mind that the service tech checked out operation of the window and the control system.