My Wipers are possesed ???????
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My Wipers are possesed ???????
Hello to all
I just bought a 99' coupe a couple of months ago. Everything has been going pretty good with my new vette. However yesterday my windshield wipers started doing something funny.
My wipers are turned off. But they still try to work, they move about 3 to 4 inches then go back down, when they are down there is this a high pitch noise, when they go up a little bit the noise stops, they repeat this the whole time im driving. Also, this effects my AC console lighting. It goes dim, then comes back on, then dims, etc, etc?
Is this a vacuum problem?
Any help would be great.
I just bought a 99' coupe a couple of months ago. Everything has been going pretty good with my new vette. However yesterday my windshield wipers started doing something funny.
My wipers are turned off. But they still try to work, they move about 3 to 4 inches then go back down, when they are down there is this a high pitch noise, when they go up a little bit the noise stops, they repeat this the whole time im driving. Also, this effects my AC console lighting. It goes dim, then comes back on, then dims, etc, etc?
Is this a vacuum problem?
Any help would be great.
Race Director
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St. Jude Donor '07-'08
Nope, these are not vacuum wipers. These are electric motors, with the "computer" to the electric motor being the lowest point in your cowling, which means it's sitting in water if your utters get clogged.
Likely your whole wiper motor needs to be replaced. If you're electrically inclined, you can try and take it apart to see if a few soldering joints near the plug have broken loose <i've heard of this hapening as well>
Best of luck.
Chris
Likely your whole wiper motor needs to be replaced. If you're electrically inclined, you can try and take it apart to see if a few soldering joints near the plug have broken loose <i've heard of this hapening as well>
Best of luck.
Chris
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Gene is probably going to be the best price you can find for the motor. I'd try him first www.gmpartshouse.com.
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St. Jude Donor '08-'09-'10-'11-'12-'13-'14-'15-'16-'17-'18- '19
Utters
You still have to clean out those utters.
There is a thread here some place on how many and their location. I believe there are three on the drivers side and at least one on the passenger side.
Intermediate
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From: Hartland Mi
You can purchase a rebuilt wiper motor from Autozone with life time warranty for $39.99 plus core charge. I normally wouldn't buy rebuilt auto parts for a Corvette but if you are like me I try to never drive the car in the rain.
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St. Jude Donor '11-'12-'13-'14-'15
Good info, thanx!!!!!
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Afterwards, I learned of the udders and cleaned them all out...I was too lazy to change the motor and really had no reason to rush it as I almost never drive it in the rain...so all I did was pull the wiper fuse and figured I'd replace the motor over the fall/winter
Interestingly enough..I decided to replace the motor a month or so ago but before doing so I put the fuse back in and lo and behold...the motor must have dried up over the past few months and the motor now works fine!
Just thought I'd let you know the motor may dry out over time..
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1st Gear
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From: GSO NC
I Unclogged the drain tube and let it dry out for a few weeks... wipers were back to normal.
Check out this link....
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=1246715
BTW... my neighbors S10 wiper motor was replaced under a reacll due to moisture damage. I checked for a recall on the C-5 but there was not one.
Check out this link....
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=1246715
BTW... my neighbors S10 wiper motor was replaced under a reacll due to moisture damage. I checked for a recall on the C-5 but there was not one.
I would clean the udders and let it dry out and see if that all it takes!