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Just had fun & games with my wipers; first they would only switch off, and stay off, when I turned the ignition off, then decided to stay on whenever the ignition was on! Usually, not a problem with the charming 'late summer' weather, but still rather a pain 
Big thanks to Adrian@ who diagnosed the problem as being the good old park switch, rather than relay, and shipped one off to me same day
Fitting it last night, in the dark & rain, was made even more exciting when the spring clip off the old switch disappeared inside the wiper gear casing
Removed the 6 small studs from the gear case lid and although I couldn't see the clip, I did find a little bearing floating about that looked like it fitted on the end of the 'worm drive' from the motor. Slacked off the locking nut / Allen stud, fitted the bearing where I thought it should be and replaced everything. No mention of this in the bible?
Anyhow, with all this going on, the old clip eventually dropped out. Fitted the new switch (with the wiper arms upright) and hey presto, they work better than ever! I still wouldn’t recommend the job on a dark wet night though!
Big thanks to Adrian@ who diagnosed the problem as being the good old park switch, rather than relay, and shipped one off to me same day
Fitting it last night, in the dark & rain, was made even more exciting when the spring clip off the old switch disappeared inside the wiper gear casing
Removed the 6 small studs from the gear case lid and although I couldn't see the clip, I did find a little bearing floating about that looked like it fitted on the end of the 'worm drive' from the motor. Slacked off the locking nut / Allen stud, fitted the bearing where I thought it should be and replaced everything. No mention of this in the bible?
Anyhow, with all this going on, the old clip eventually dropped out. Fitted the new switch (with the wiper arms upright) and hey presto, they work better than ever! I still wouldn’t recommend the job on a dark wet night though!
Been there,done exactly the same thing,spring clip shot up into main wiper motor,had to strip it down to get it out. Filled all holes to wiper housing with grease prior to next attempt to fit spring clip.right little F****r to fit took ages to get right, but wipers worked fine in the end.Cheers Matey C/P
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