Windshield wiper issues
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Now that fall is here again and I'm forced to use my windshield wipers more often, I am once again a little bothered by the problem that I've been having with them over the last few years.
It doesn't happen all the time, but it happens often enough. The car is a '91 88.
1. Sometimes, the wipers will not turn on immediately when I put the switch on the intermittent setting or the low setting. They will turn on eventually though. They always turn on if I switch them on the high setting.
2. Sometimes, the wipers will just stop wiping mid-pass and they will eventually start moving again or I have to switch them to high.
3. Sometimes, the wipers will not park themselves when I shut them off. If I wait a little bit, they will park.
Has anyone come across the same problem?
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It doesn't happen all the time, but it happens often enough. The car is a '91 88.
1. Sometimes, the wipers will not turn on immediately when I put the switch on the intermittent setting or the low setting. They will turn on eventually though. They always turn on if I switch them on the high setting.
2. Sometimes, the wipers will just stop wiping mid-pass and they will eventually start moving again or I have to switch them to high.
3. Sometimes, the wipers will not park themselves when I shut them off. If I wait a little bit, they will park.
Has anyone come across the same problem?
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Originally Posted by rjolly87
you said when you switch the wipers to high, the work right? do they work at the same speed they should while running on high?
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Originally Posted by Andrew97Cobra
The car is a '91 88.
1. Sometimes, the wipers will not turn on immediately when I put the switch on the intermittent setting or the low setting. They will turn on eventually though. They always turn on if I switch them on the high setting.
2. Sometimes, the wipers will just stop wiping mid-pass and they will eventually start moving again or I have to switch them to high.
3. Sometimes, the wipers will not park themselves when I shut them off. If I wait a little bit, they will park.
Has anyone come across the same problem?
Andrew
1. Sometimes, the wipers will not turn on immediately when I put the switch on the intermittent setting or the low setting. They will turn on eventually though. They always turn on if I switch them on the high setting.
2. Sometimes, the wipers will just stop wiping mid-pass and they will eventually start moving again or I have to switch them to high.
3. Sometimes, the wipers will not park themselves when I shut them off. If I wait a little bit, they will park.
Has anyone come across the same problem?
Andrew
For #2 it says to perform a Windshield Wiper Motor Assembly Current Draw Test. Again I would check the connections inside the Wiper Motor for this problem as well.
And for #3 it says to perform this 7 step Mechanical Inspection.
I wish I had the means to print out the procedures they describe in the FSM. If it'* cheap enough, I think it would be be better just to go to a boneyard and pull a wiper motor from an H-Body around the 91 model year and "plug and play".
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