Golf Mk5 wipers.....

[kevinarbury]

Hi All,

I have a golf Mk5 2006 1.9 tdi and today the front windscreen wipers stopped working! annoying! i have checked all the fuses and they are all fine. the water jet pump works fine on the front and the rear and the rear wiper works fine too. any ideas? wiper motor? expensive? big job?

heeeeeeeeeellp!

cheers,
Kev

[Pints]

The rear wiper motor went bang on my mkV. Was covered under trader warranty though.

[s p a c e m a n]

RainX your windscreen then drive flat out everywhere

[SMB]

kevinarbury said:

Hi All,

I have a golf Mk5 2006 1.9 tdi and today the front windscreen wipers stopped working! annoying! i have checked all the fuses and they are all fine. the water jet pump works fine on the front and the rear and the rear wiper works fine too. any ideas? wiper motor? expensive? big job?

heeeeeeeeeellp!

cheers,
Kev

Is the bonnet shut, wipers are isolated if bonnet is open

[Rich_W]

SMB said:

kevinarbury said:

Hi All,

I have a golf Mk5 2006 1.9 tdi and today the front windscreen wipers stopped working! annoying! i have checked all the fuses and they are all fine. the water jet pump works fine on the front and the rear and the rear wiper works fine too. any ideas? wiper motor? expensive? big job?

heeeeeeeeeellp!

cheers,
Kev

Is the bonnet shut, wipers are isolated if bonnet is open

THIS

Open and close your bonnet, makes sure it's fully shut and the display by the clocks doesn't say it's open.

[Sensibleboy]

Mine did this but it was accompanied with the dashboard saying the bonnet was open when it was shut. £20 bonnet catch sensor fixed it. Wipers worked on other settings though I recall.

[Northernchimp]

Polish the windscreen - I've had wiper 'failure' twice - both times it was due to an invisible layer of ste on the glass.

[kevinarbury]

turns out the wiper motor had blown...£255 for replacement and fitting etc...ouch!

[Pints]

kevinarbury said:

turns out the wiper motor had blown...£255 for replacement and fitting etc...ouch!

So the first reply was the correct one.

[Motorrad]

kevinarbury said:

turns out the wiper motor had blown...£255 for replacement and fitting etc...ouch!

What a rip off a front wiper motor cost me less than 50 quid , then it's just a case of wiper arm removal, bit of plastic leaf catching trim off, remove the linkeage with the motor attached and replace. How on earth did anyone charge more than an hours labour for that?????