Disabling Wipers

[yosini]

Happy Friday,

Two more sleeps to go until TITN9, hurrah the weather is looking good for Sunday morning, but I still haven't got to the bottom of my 'intermittent' wipers problem - I was wondering if there is a simple fuse I can take out that will disable my windscreen annoyers. My owners manual is at home and sneaking out from work for what's left of this afternoon is the only chance I'll have prior to Sunday to tinker I wondered if someone could point me in the quick fix direction so the only burned rubber on Sunday is on the road and not on my windscreens.

If you see a silver Cerbera on Sunday morning with no windscreen wipers and the wiper tubes waving around like demented antenna, then that is me and I resorted to brute force.

thanks in advance

Joe

[Jhonno]

Fuse 31 - 20a is the Wiper and Steering wheel ECU.. Whether that would do anything or whether it would disable the steering wheel controls as well I don't know.

[Tanguero]

According to the handbook the fuse for the wipers and mirror motors is fuse 16 (25Amp). Removing the fuse for the steering wheel ECU may well disable other important stuff as well as the wipers.

I say "according to the handbook " because I know that my car has a completely different fusebox layout to the diagram in the handbook!

[Jhonno]

I looked at one of the online wiring diagrams.. Worth a pull of the fuse to check I guess.

[optimax sniffer]

Make sure that the key fob is not in the car, just in case you pull the wrong fuse and the car licks itself

[ukkid35]

optimax sniffer said:

...just in case you pull the wrong fuse and the car licks itself

That would be worth seeing.

[Jhonno]

ukkid35 said:

optimax sniffer said:

...just in case you pull the wrong fuse and the car licks itself

That would be worth seeing.

[Jonnie B]

Hi,

Just read your queston about your wipers.

It may now be fixed or somone may have said this before but,

I had a similar problem when turning my steering wheel, it turned out the ribbon cable behind
the centre cap had been rubbing against the steering colume wearing through the insulation and
then every time the bare wires touched the colume it turned the wipers on.
I had a new ribbom cable fitted but looking at the old one, it ws just the insulation that was damaged so
could possibly be repaired.

Hope this helps ?

john.