Stupid Wiper Motor

**parapaul** · 2nd December 2007, 21:51

Yep - mine's gone too

Coming home from work tonight up the M6 in the driving rain, the wipers slowed from normal speed to a dead stop. Really quite helpful, I thought!

They work fine on 'fast' though, just intermittent and 'normal' speed that's affected. Anyone know why it's never the 'fast' speed that's affected?

Anyway - guess who I'll be calling first thing monday morning?

Oh - is it just the motor that fails, or is there any kind of electrical bits that need replacing too?

Ta

**DeathStar** · 2nd December 2007, 22:02

I had the linkage fall of mine 12 months ago!

now thats fun!

**ditchp** · 2nd December 2007, 22:06

mine has started to make a funny clunking noise on all speed's, noticed this on way home on the M6 today too

**Pecojess** · 2nd December 2007, 22:27

Had the same problem last week, wiper motor went but somehow fast still worked, strange!!! Anyway all they replaced was the motor in the end and all has been well with the world since, the mechanic said it was a common fault, not helpfull but hey, the truth seldom is!!!

**dti owner** · 20th December 2007, 00:41

I have the same problem, only fast speed and if you go to switch the windscreen wipers off they just stop dead, but also my front washer jets dont work, whys this? my back ones work fine and my back wiper is fine.

please help

**parapaul** · 20th December 2007, 07:05

if your front jets don't work but the back one does, there's a blockage in the pipework somewhere.....screen wash tends to get gooey in the cold. i'm too tired to search now, but there's been a few threads recently, and loads if you go back and look, about how to unclog them.

HTH

**Gsi3.2** · 20th December 2007, 08:39

they work on fast, as it's using a 2nd brush to power it, rather than just 1 as it does in normal operations.. the 2nd brush is powered seperately, so will deliver power, even when the first one dies..

Easy job to do, so just follow SteveH's how-2 and it'll be done in around an hour..

**dti owner** · 26th December 2007, 19:11

Originally Posted by Gsi3.2

they work on fast, as it's using a 2nd brush to power it, rather than just 1 as it does in normal operations.. the 2nd brush is powered seperately, so will deliver power, even when the first one dies..

Easy job to do, so just follow SteveH's how-2 and it'll be done in around an hour..

hiya mate, so what is the repair I have to do then? where is the thread aslo please?

**Kyser143** · 31st December 2007, 12:22

guys need some help my wipers have also developed a fault...they work on intermittant and slow but not fast ...when i try to use fast the wipers freeze...is it the linkage/motor as the others have had or is it somet else...ai read somewhere here that fast would run even if the other two failed?? cheers dont want buy parts i wont need.