windscreen timer

[glennmoore]

When the windscreen wipers are on the timed wipe they end up stopping all over the windscreen rather than returning correctly.

Is this caused by a faulty relay and if so where can I get a replacement?

[exocet]

Usually caused by a faulty park switch, very cheap, but a bit of a git to fit!

Jo

[olly]

exocet said: Usually caused by a faulty park switch, very cheap, but a bit of a git to fit!

Jo

Yeah, but replacing the whole wiper mechanism was more of a git on your car than just the sensor !!!

[glennmoore]

Where is the park switch located on the car

[essexboy]

I had same problem, warranty should cover it if you have one.

[olly]

glennmoore said: Where is the park switch located on the car

From memory (which isn't that good some of the time) it's on the wiper motor, which is behind the expansion bottle, at the top of the passenger foot well. Can someone else confirm ?

[JJ99]

Had this problem with mine, The relay is tucked in behind the wiper motor and is a lucas part, seems it is covered under warranty though so i never got any further than that.

[_DJ_]

olly said:

[quote]exocet said: Usually caused by a faulty park switch, very cheap, but a bit of a git to fit! Jo

Yeah, but replacing the whole wiper mechanism was more of a git on your car than just the sensor !!! [/quote]

Sorry to dig up this old topic, but why was the wiper mechanism replaced and more much of a job is it?

edited to elaborate a bit:

I've just had a new park sensor fitted, then after about 30 mins use the wipers moved a long way to the left (too far) and stuck there. I figure this cannot be anything to do with the sensor but is much more likely to be due to the mechanism itself.

I'm not sure how to get at the mechanism to see what's broken though!

>> Edited by _DJ_ on Saturday 28th February 15:31

>> Edited by _DJ_ on Saturday 28th February 15:32

[Jo Williams]

Olly and I (exocet) had a days worth of fun sorting mine. To get to the mechanism and motor, you need to remove the expansion tank. Not too big a deal, just very fiddly. The motor on mine was burnt out, and the tubes that the cable runs through were loose, causing the motor to move instead of the wipers. Bit difficult to describe, but we never did get it exactly right.

We spent a good half a day with it, but it did save me £100's at a dealer!

Good luck!

Jo

[_DJ_]

Did that mean much fidding with the cooling system (draining it etc?). You probably won't be able to remember as it was so long ago but is there anything that could easily explain why the wipers got so far out of alignment (so the travel changed to that it moved too far to the left and not far enough to the right)?

thanks,

Darren.

[Jo Williams]

Didn't have to drain the system, just replaced a bit of lost fluid from the tank during removal. One of the pipes going to the tank is located underneath it, making some fluid loss unavoidable.

The motor drives a cable that connects to each wiper via a gear type thingy (excuse the techno speak ;-)
Can't think what could have happened to make yours change postion like that, cable could be slipping I guess?? Have you just tried removing the wiper arms and putting them into the correct position? Or have you done this and they keep going back to the wrong place??

[_DJ_]

Jo Williams said:

Didn't have to drain the system, just replaced a bit of lost fluid from the tank during removal. One of the pipes going to the tank is located underneath it, making some fluid loss unavoidable. The motor drives a cable that connects to each wiper via a gear type thingy (excuse the techno speak ;-) Can't think what could have happened to make yours change postion like that, cable could be slipping I guess?? Have you just tried removing the wiper arms and putting them into the correct position? Or have you done this and they keep going back to the wrong place??

I've done that today. However, the wipers gave up on the motorway. I thought they'd completed stopped (fuse or something) so continued for another hour or so. When I got back the motor had been pressing the wipers against the bottom of the windscreen. Now the wipers don't move at all but you can hear the motor operating. I (well Joolz actually) reckons the cable has broken where it attaches to the motor. I've got another scrap motor (burnt out) and was going to swap the motors over to get an operational one. What I didn't want to do was put it back together for it to do the same thing again and break the 'new' motor!

Darren