Windshield Wipers Stuck
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Melting Slicks
Joined: May 2006
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From: Deep in the Heart, TX
Windshield Wipers Stuck
When I turn them on they move about 1/4 way up the glass and stop. sometimes they start again in a few minutes, sometimes they dont. last time they were stuck until i turned the car off and then in acc mode they came back on. i can mess with the switch all i want and nothing happens. anyone had this problem? and is it a wiper motor failure? or what?
Pro
Joined: Jun 2005
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From: Los Angeles CA
I'm not an electrical person, so I have no idea where the intermittent failure would come from.
If you want to check the mechanical aspects you can open the hood, pull off the rubber seal on the front edge of firewall, snap off wiper arm cover and remove nut, remove wiper arm and pull off the washer hose from nipple, remove torx screw on each end of the plastic cover at the base of windshield, remove the plastic cover to expose the parallelogram looking wiper linkage/assembly.
Maybe something got sucked into that area and is tangling up the linkages to prevent smooth movements?
If you want to check the mechanical aspects you can open the hood, pull off the rubber seal on the front edge of firewall, snap off wiper arm cover and remove nut, remove wiper arm and pull off the washer hose from nipple, remove torx screw on each end of the plastic cover at the base of windshield, remove the plastic cover to expose the parallelogram looking wiper linkage/assembly.
Maybe something got sucked into that area and is tangling up the linkages to prevent smooth movements?
Thread Starter
Melting Slicks
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 2,820
Likes: 216
From: Deep in the Heart, TX
I'm not an electrical person, so I have no idea where the intermittent failure would come from.
If you want to check the mechanical aspects you can open the hood, pull off the rubber seal on the front edge of firewall, snap off wiper arm cover and remove nut, remove wiper arm and pull off the washer hose from nipple, remove torx screw on each end of the plastic cover at the base of windshield, remove the plastic cover to expose the parallelogram looking wiper linkage/assembly.
Maybe something got sucked into that area and is tangling up the linkages to prevent smooth movements?
If you want to check the mechanical aspects you can open the hood, pull off the rubber seal on the front edge of firewall, snap off wiper arm cover and remove nut, remove wiper arm and pull off the washer hose from nipple, remove torx screw on each end of the plastic cover at the base of windshield, remove the plastic cover to expose the parallelogram looking wiper linkage/assembly.
Maybe something got sucked into that area and is tangling up the linkages to prevent smooth movements?
