Rachel S

Rachel S

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Hi fellow series peeps! ( that's ace that)

As some are aware, we have picked up our first old lady for daughter today, series 3. Everything going swimmingly until an hour ago when the wipers stopped working. Have been give some spare fuses so BH has checked that and it's not them. Any ideas? ( I've done my search not really found anything but got digressed onto other great stuff)

Welcome to world of series Rach. :)
 
Well done sarah on your purchase (pics would be good), as for wiper, one of them cheap pen testers are good, just follow all way from motor to switch, also check the earth is still attached.
 
b20wnx said:
Well done sarah on your purchase (pics would be good), as for wiper, one of them cheap pen testers are good, just follow all way from motor to switch, also check the earth is still attached.
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It's Rach :D

Thank you. BH has a tester, he's going to get stuck in and search all the wiring tomorrow.

Also, I have never see anything on the web about stolen series. I realise that defenders are a scum bags dream ( we had one taken) but do series get taken too?
 
Pics as I realise the ones I've posted are in anything goes :)

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Looks nice sarah erm no rach (don't forget Iam senile lol)
I don't hear of any but I don't really ask or look to see if any series vehicles have gone,
Like most things if they want it they will take it no matter what it is.
I have mine parked on drive with CCTV trained on it, I am going to fit an alarm and battery isolator too.
We could do with a Yorkshire meet, what you think
 
Do be careful, there's a few been nicked round here - though I know the police managed to get one back. Hopefully mine looks so crap no one will nick it, yours looks nice and neat though!

The wiper motor's a bugger to get to as you have to take off the lower dash which may well disintegrate in the process - mine did. If you do take it off I'd advise stripping down the motor and the whole cable tube assembly and re-greasing it. The one on my 109 was stuck more or less solid with old grease and the wipers were very slow. No doubt the motor would have burned out with much use. Now after a re-grease the go about 3 times faster...that's still fairly slow though!

I'd advise anyone with a land rover to invest in a bottle of RainEx. Apply a regular dose of that and you barely need the wipers...
 
Thank you guys. We are on the case now. So far we have found a loose wire that if you connect up the water jet works. The motor is not whirring so we are trying to work out from oxides link all the connectors and what should be going where. etc.

B20 yep don't mind meeting up sometime :)

Dominic yeah we used the rainex in the defender wing mirrors but found that they misted up all the time. He's taken on board about the greasing though

I've been lucky so far with the Defender, only the roof lining found it's way into the house, seems like things are soon to change :)
 
Hi Rach...looks very straight...what is it thats in the middle of the steering wheel...some kind of badge???

Also what engine has it???

Nick.
 
Looks great :) Out of interest what does the warning sticker say on the right of the steering wheel? Mine hasnt got one
 
Make sure its the right stuff - yellow on the windscreen - but only outside not inside as it makes the condensation worse. Black on the inside, not sure what needs to go on the mirrors. I've no idea if it would work on mirrors - on the windscreen it causes big drops to form that then blow away, they wouldn't blow away on mirrors.

I find even with the Series wipers working well anything above light drizzle is horrible with the Rainex its fine.

I'll keep my eyes peeled for you lads when I'm down that way!

PS: Remembering back on another vehicle with similar wipers that stopped for no apparent reason and it turned out to just be the motor was stuck we just turned it on and pushed an pulled on the wipers and it came back to life, never did it again...
 
Sorry guys I can't multi quote on my phone.

So anyway we got to the bottom of the problem yay!

It was a loose earth wire at back of motor. :)

Thanks loads. :)
 
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