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Wipers stop during operation

Post by javars » Mon Aug 14, 2017 11:14 am

Good Morning

My wipers are playing silly buggers. During operation they will stop in a random position and refuse to work again until I turn the ignition off and back on again, moving the stalk has no effect on operation until I restart the car. A few months a go I removed the motor and cleaned the grease off the tracks inside as the park was a little erratic. Im going to try removing the rain sensor fuse to see if this helps as well.

Any advice would be welcome.

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Steve

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Wipers stop during operation

Post by Joao_S » Mon Aug 14, 2017 12:05 pm

Could sound stupid, but have you checked any rust in the frame that make the wipers move?

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Post by javars » Mon Aug 14, 2017 1:52 pm

Good thought, but all clear and lubricated

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Post by srhutch » Mon Aug 14, 2017 8:42 pm

Common issue. Grease has got where it shouldn't have in the motor.

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Post by javars » Mon Aug 14, 2017 9:07 pm

Thanks for that. Already been done. I've taken out the rain sensor fuse and driven an hour home in the rain without having to switch off and back on again. I can live without a random rain sensor 😀

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Post by javars » Fri Sep 08, 2017 4:19 pm

So it appears I don't have rain sensors after all and I was talking from my rear entrance (or exit). My wipers are still behaving like a spoilt child at a disappointing Christmas.
So. Even though I had stripped the motor previously, I whipped it apart again this morning. There was no grease on the contact plate but there were some strange marks still on it. So I rubbed it down with 600 paper. All nice and bright now with no marks at all. I also gently filed the contact fingers. Of course I never thought to take a picture :headbang:
The outcome is perfect wiper action. It would normally have stopped by now requiring me to restart the car to get them working again along with a random twitch in intermittent.

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