WIPER WOES

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Phil Davies

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Hi,

New to the forum! I have a 2003 110 XS. Had recent issues where the wipers would not park. Changed the park switch and problems went away.... for a few days. The wipers then froze mid screen.
Had the wiper motor completely changed for new just to make sure and also a new wiper relay fitted. Problem solved...... for a few weeks!!!

My wipers have again frozen mid screen! (just to add, they stopped quickly and did not drag slowly across the screen).

Any advice where I should start to rid this problem!??!
 
I wonder if the motor and relay have been trying to work against a jammed spring. If you remove the wiper arms and mech, you should be able to move the spring that attaches to the wiper boxes. It will be stiff, but it should be possible to move in and out by hand. If this is OK, it points to that Blue Box wiper motor. If the relay came in a blue bag, I'd change that first after testing it.
 
Though if the relay did come in a blue bag, i'd asked for a replacement bearmach one from paddocks - they advertise it as being bearmach, so if you didn't get that, complain
 
It definitely came in a box although I don't recall the colour!

I'm assuming the fault is not motor or relay related as the same problem has occurred with replacements.

Looks like the dash is coming off (AGAIN!) this weekend.

Thanks for the help.
 
So as I left work last night it was royally peeing down so to avoid the train I manually dragged the wipers back to the off position. Started the engine and hey presto.. wipers work!

I am assuming that I just flicked the wiper switch on and off to clear the screen and this caused it to stop mid screen. Driving in today I was much more patient with the switch and the wipers worked perfectly.
 
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