Wiper Blades Parking Position
Discussion
I moved house last week and as is typical it p*ssed down when I took my beloved to her new home (car - not wife). This is the first time it's been in the rain and when I turned off the wipers the blades parked themselves in the vertical position.
Any ideas as to what's happened and how I can rectify it?
Any ideas as to what's happened and how I can rectify it?
Park switch is bust. Its a little electrical switch attached to the wiper motor. IIRC not too expensive to fix.. My wipers worked fien for a couple of months like that, I just had to switch them off in the down position. The day before Back Home this year the switch caused a short which meant the wipers failed totally; I'd put it down as a should fix pretty quickly sort of problem given its winter now..
Odd.. If they park upright the switch must be ok.. 
You could try parking them then undoing the retaining bolt on each arm, putting them in the right position and trying again. Could be the rachet drive thingy has slipped, or the gears on one or both wiper arms. Unlikely to be the latter, (2 failures at once). Watch out if you try repositioning the arms as if the motor is expecting them to move down next and you move them from upright to parked, their next motion may be through the bulkhead. Not sure of the mechanism..
On my S3C the motor is buried up behind the glove box. It was a case of dropping the fuse panel down, taking the glove box off, (one bolt either side acting as pivot points plus I think a bolt that acts as a stopper thingy), dropping all the wiring out and then the motor is secured to the underside of the bulkhead. There is a bolt on the otherside you need to stop from turning, otherwise you will be lying in the footwell for half an hour wondering why nothing is happening when you are undoing the bolts from the inside. You then can remove the motor and the long drive shaft that runs the length of the windscreen. An hours job if you stop for a mug of tea half way through, (ie.e. too me an afternoon..)
Oh, while under there, there is a nice gap at the top of the inner wing/left hand side of the passenger footwell. Ideal place to loose the only 10mm spanner you have when it slips out of your grasp and flys off into the murk. Still need to find a decent magnet to drop in to retrieve it..
You could try parking them then undoing the retaining bolt on each arm, putting them in the right position and trying again. Could be the rachet drive thingy has slipped, or the gears on one or both wiper arms. Unlikely to be the latter, (2 failures at once). Watch out if you try repositioning the arms as if the motor is expecting them to move down next and you move them from upright to parked, their next motion may be through the bulkhead. Not sure of the mechanism.. On my S3C the motor is buried up behind the glove box. It was a case of dropping the fuse panel down, taking the glove box off, (one bolt either side acting as pivot points plus I think a bolt that acts as a stopper thingy), dropping all the wiring out and then the motor is secured to the underside of the bulkhead. There is a bolt on the otherside you need to stop from turning, otherwise you will be lying in the footwell for half an hour wondering why nothing is happening when you are undoing the bolts from the inside. You then can remove the motor and the long drive shaft that runs the length of the windscreen. An hours job if you stop for a mug of tea half way through, (ie.e. too me an afternoon..)
Oh, while under there, there is a nice gap at the top of the inner wing/left hand side of the passenger footwell. Ideal place to loose the only 10mm spanner you have when it slips out of your grasp and flys off into the murk. Still need to find a decent magnet to drop in to retrieve it..
Psychobert said:
On my S3C the motor is buried up behind the glove box. It was a case of dropping the fuse panel down, taking the glove box off,..
On my S1 it's behind the glove box. Remove the Velcro'd carpet panel with the handbook pouch, if it's still in the car! Then stick head in foot well. (Mine won't park at all a few years ago, it was the cam arrangement for the park switch.)
The fuse panel is attached to the inside of the wing, so don't touch!
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