Wipers park vertically..
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Racer
Joined: Jan 2009
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Wipers park vertically..
Hello,
I haven't done any changes to my wiper mechanism, it worked couple of months ago but after long time not driving the car wipers are parking pointing straight upwards.
I removed the plastic cover in front of the windshield to see mechanism. Motor rotates CW normally when wipers are on. Wipers park in right place (or a bit higher than that) but right after that the motor turns 180 degrees CCW, so wipers park again but in wrong place.
What could cause this? I removed the wiper motor cover to see if there is something inside that's misplaced but everything seemed fixed.
I haven't done any changes to my wiper mechanism, it worked couple of months ago but after long time not driving the car wipers are parking pointing straight upwards.
I removed the plastic cover in front of the windshield to see mechanism. Motor rotates CW normally when wipers are on. Wipers park in right place (or a bit higher than that) but right after that the motor turns 180 degrees CCW, so wipers park again but in wrong place.
What could cause this? I removed the wiper motor cover to see if there is something inside that's misplaced but everything seemed fixed.
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Racer
Joined: Jan 2009
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Problem solved:
Mechanism which parks blades while rotating the motor CCW was missing one little spring. I made there a replacement spring and now all positions can be found again. Cheap fix but not very easy..
Mechanism which parks blades while rotating the motor CCW was missing one little spring. I made there a replacement spring and now all positions can be found again. Cheap fix but not very easy..
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Cruising
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Yep, I've spent the last two days researching this and I've torn into the area and found no evidence of water. I took the motor off and bench-tested and all seems fine except....when I turn the switch to off, the wipers cycle once and do a reverse about half way then stop. This leaves the wipers in the 1:00 position. I took the motor apart and then took the board off and saw nothing wrong but it still did the same thing. I'm think there is a switch within the housing that isn't positioned right but I couldnt see it when I took it apart....I'll look again tonight and take some pics....
Cruising
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There is a spring that goes completely around the "cam" but thats the only one I see. I bought a new motor and installed it and it did the same thing so I'm pretty sure its not the motor. I took the board out and there are two contacts inside and I messed with them, just to see if they were burnt but they were fine. I reinstalled the old motor and now they park...but....now when I go to intermittent, instead of "parking" in the lowered position inbetween cycles, they stay at the one oclock position but at least when I turn them off, they go to the stowed and park position. This is really starting to **** me off, lol. 
